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Bullet points of Court approves shooting brumbies from helicopters after challenge by Snowy Mountains group
- The Snowy Mountains Bush Users Group filed a legal action against the NSW environment minister, Penny Sharpe, in the state's supreme court in June.
- The group claimed the decision to use aerial shooting as a means to control brumbies was 'infected by error of law'.
- The group's lawyers told the court aerial shooting without preference for other control methods was 'unnecessarily or unjustifiably' inflicting pain upon the horses and was an act of animal cruelty.
- The group will have to pay the government's legal costs of defending the case.