16 U.S.C. § 1339
Section 1339 · Limitation of authority
Amended 2 times on record
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case In Defense of Animals v. U.S. Department of the Interior (2014)
Most recently applied in In Defense of Animals v. U.S. Department of the Interior (May 2014)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to authorize the Secretary to relocate wild free-roaming horses or burros to areas of the public lands where they do not presently exist.