The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has accepted a flurry of legal briefs, most supporting or augmenting USDA's position in its appeal of an injunction that continues to keep the U.S. border closed to live Canadian cattle.

The National Meat Association, which filed the first friend-of-the-court brief, says the court has accepted its documents, along with those of the American Meat Institute; National Cattlemen's Beef Association; North American Meat Processors; Canadian Cattlemen's Association; the Canadian government; Alberta Beef Producers; the American Farm Bureau; National Pork Producers Council; Tyson Foods; and dozens of state and local farm bureaus and cattlemen's groups.

The court will hear oral arguments concerning the appeal on July 13 in Seattle.