[FEL-L] RE: Zoo Dynamics

[Marcus Cook]

Since the "reporter" will not report the "other 
side of the coin",......   The continuance was an 
agreed re-set by both sides, mostly to 
accommodate vacations that the attorneys had 
already scheduled,....  Again,....it was an 
"agreed"  re-set.    We are looking forward 
ourselves to our counter-suit against them at 
that time as well.   That is another fact that 
the "reporter"  did not want to print.  But not 
the first time we have ever seen that,..huh,....








At 11:34 AM 7/26/2006, you wrote:

>Habitat trial is delayed
>By Kent Miller
>
>And the delay continues.
>
>A representative for Texas Attorney General Greg 
>Abbott's office confirmed Friday that the 
>attorney for Marcus Cook and his organization, 
>Zoo Dynamics, has requested and received a 
>continuance in the AG's civil case against the exotic animal exhibitor.
>
>This thing has rocked on for a long time now,” 
>press spokesman Tom Kelly said. “We need to get on with this.”
>
>The case was set for a Monday trial date in the 
>86th State District Court in Kaufman but the 
>action by Cook's attorney means Abbott's pursuit 
>of Cook faces yet another delay. The case has 
>now been set for trial on Nov. 13.
>
>“It's been a long and arduous journey to get 
>this through the courts in Kaufman County,” 
>Kelly said last month. “We thought in 2003 
>that we had a strong case against Mr. Cook and 
>we still believe that today. We just want to get this in front of a jury.”
>
>Zoo Dynamics found itself the target of unwanted 
>publicity last month when one of its animals, a 
>300-pound Bengal tiger escaped from its caged 
>enclosure and mauled a worker at the complex 
>located between Terrell and Kaufman off State 
>Highway 34. The victim of the June 16 attack, 
>Don Roberts, was hospitalized following the 
>incident and needed 2,000-odd stitches to close the numerous wounds,
>
>Abbott's office, though, has been interested in 
>Cook and his organization since obtaining an 
>emergency court order in the summer of 2003 
>against ZooCats Inc., Cook's former organization.
>
>State District Judge Howard Tygrett later 
>dissolved the order, writing at the time that 
>“the place to establish rules and regulations 
>for the exhibition of animals is through the 
>U.S. Department of Agriculture, health 
>authorities or by statute, and not piecemeal through the courts.”
>
>Abbott's suit seeks damages for alleged 
>violations of the Deceptive Trade Practices Act 
>and the Texas Nonprofit Corporations Act
>
>Zoo Dynamics has exhibited animals at the 
>Terrell Heritage Jubilee in three of the last four years
>
>According to the animal-rights organization, 
>People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the 
>attack outside Terrell isn't the first time one 
>of Cook's big cats has caused injuries. In 2005, 
>a visitor to a Florida car dealership was bitten 
>by a tiger cub belonging to Zoo Dynamics and in 
>2002, one of the organization's tiger cubs bit 
>an employee at Six Flags Over Texas, spurring 
>the amusement park to close the exhibit, PETA said.
>
><http://www.terrelltribune.com/articles/2006/07/26/news/news02.txt>http://www.terrelltribune.com/articles/2006/07/26/news/news02.txt
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