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Complaint dismissed in USDA-Hemingway case
Six-toed cats wander the writer's home, to the feds' chagrin.
By A ssociated Press
Published December 19, 2006
MIAMI - A federal judge Monday dismissed a complaint in an ongoing dispute between the caretakers of Ernest Hemingway's Key West home and the U.S. Department of Agriculture over the six-toed cats that roam the property. The Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum in Key West has disputed the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services claim that the home is an "exhibitor" of cats and needs to have a USDA Animal Welfare License to continue caring for them. The caretakers of the home asked the U.S. District Court in Miami to intervene in July. More than 50 cats descended from a multitoed cat the novelist received as a gift in 1935 freely wander the grounds of the home, where Hemingway wrote A Farewell to Arms and To Have and Have Not. The agency has repeatedly denied a license for the Hemingway home under the Animal Welfare Act, which the home contends governs animals in commerce. The USDA has threatened to charge the home $200 per cat per day for violating the act, according to the complaint. Telephone messages left after hours Monday at the Washington, D.C., office of the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and the home's attorney, Cara Higgins, were not immediately returned.
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by Winston
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12/19/06 12:34 PM
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Who Won????
Poorly written
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