Bundy standoff

Bundy standoff
Date	Legal process: 1993 – present Confrontation: April 5, 2014 – May 2014
Location	Bunkerville, Clark County, Nevada, United States 36°43′00″N 114°14′19″W / 36.716574°N 114.238483°W / 36.716574; -114.238483Coordinates: 36°43′00″N 114°14′19″W / 36.716574°N 114.238483°W / 36.716574; -114.238483
Causes	Protest over Bureau of Land Management roundup of trespass cattle pursuant to court order Unpaid cattle grazing fees on public domain lands
Goals	BLM seeks to round up and remove from the range trespass cattle owned by Bundy ATF to oversee operations Cliven Bundy seeks to prevent roundup of cattle and have his claim of grazing rights recognized
Result	The BLM suspends the roundup of trespassing cattle Protesters disperse Incident defused Cliven Bundy and 18 others indicted for federal felonies
Parties to the civil conflict
United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Governor of Nevada Lieutenant Governor of Nevada Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) Nevada Highway Patrol (NHP) 3 Percenters Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) Oath Keepers Praetorian Guard White Mountain Militia Various unarmed protesters
Lead figures
Brian Sandoval (Governor) Brian Krolicki (former Lieutenant Governor) Mark Hutchison (current Lieutenant Governor and former state senator) Douglas C. Gillespie (former Clark County Sheriff) Joseph Lombardo (former Clark County Under Sheriff and current Clark County Sheriff) Kevin C. McMahill (current Clark County Under Sheriff) Chuck Baldwin Ammon Bundy Cliven Bundy Cliven Lance Bundy Ryan Bundy Brian Cavalier Blaine Cooper Richard Mack Gordon Martines Ryan Payne Stewart Rhodes Jon Ritzheimer Pete Santilli David Lory VanDerBeek Neil Wampler
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United States v Bundy
United States District Court for the District of Nevada
Full case name	UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, v. CLIVEN BUNDY, Defendant.
Date decided	July 9, 2013 (2013-07-09) and October 8, 2013 (2013-10-08)
Transcripts	May 2012 -Complaint June 2012 - Answer by Defendant Dec 2012 - Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment January 2013 - Defendant's Opposition to Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment and Defendant's Cross-Motion to Dismiss February 2013 - Plaintiff's Reply in Further Support of its Summary Judgment Motion and in Opposition to Defendant's Cross-Motion to Dismiss February 2013 - Defendant's Reply in Further Support of His Cross-Motion to Dismiss; Evidentiary Hearing Requested February 2013 - Plaintiff's Opposition to Defendant's Request for Evidentiary Hearing February 2013 - Defendant's Reply in Further Support of Request for Evidentiary Hearing July 2013 - Court Order Granting Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment and Denying Defendant's Motion to Dismiss as Moot Oct 2013 Court Order
Judge sitting	1. Lloyd D. George 2. Larry R. Hicks
Prosecutor(s)	1. Ignacia S. Moreno 2. Daniel G. Bogden
Defendant(s)	Cliven Bundy, pro se
Case history
Prior actions	1998, order by the same court
Case holding
Bundy is permanently enjoined from trespass, Bundy shall remove livestock within 45 days, The United States is entitled to seize and impound cattle.

The 2014 Bundy standoff was an armed confrontation between supporters of cattle rancher Cliven Bundy and law enforcement following a 20-year legal dispute in which the United States Bureau of Land Management (BLM) had obtained court orders directing Bundy to pay over $1 million in withheld grazing fees for Bundy's use of federally owned land adjacent to Bundy's ranch in southeastern Nevada.

The ongoing dispute started in 1993, when, in protest against changes to grazing rules, Bundy declined to renew his permit for cattle grazing on BLM-administered lands near Bunkerville, Nevada. According to the BLM, Bundy continued to graze his cattle on public lands without a permit. In 1998, Bundy was prohibited by the United States District Court for the District of Nevada from grazing his cattle on an area of land later called the Bunkerville Allotment. In July 2013, the BLM complaint was supplemented when federal judge Lloyd D. George ordered that Bundy refrain from trespassing on federally administered land in the Gold Butte area of Clark County.

On March 27, 2014, 145,604 acres of federal land in Clark County were temporarily closed for the "capture, impound, and removal of trespass cattle". BLM officials and law enforcement rangers began a roundup of such livestock on April 5, and an arrest was made the next day. On April 12, 2014, a group of protesters, some of them armed, advanced on what the BLM described as a "cattle gather." Sheriff Doug Gillespie negotiated with Bundy and newly confirmed BLM director Neil Kornze, who elected to release the cattle and de-escalate the situation. As of the end of 2015, Cliven Bundy continued to graze his cattle on Federal land and had not paid the fees.

Bundy was at first praised by Republican politicians and conservative personalities. Later, after Bundy suggested that "the Negro" would have been better off to be a slave than to be a recipient of government subsidies, he was widely condemned, and was repudiated by conservative politicians and talk-show hosts who had previously supported him. Many condemned his remarks as racist.