This article contains some simplification of the issue. Bundy was willing to pay his BLM fees but neither the state nor the the feds would not take his money unless Bundy signed a contract that turned control of his business over to the BLM.
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The BLM had already regulated all the other farmers / ranchers in the area out of business.


Cliven Bundy sues Obama, Harry Reid, Nevada officials
Jailed cattle rancher seeks $50 million, jury trial
2016.05.10

Cliven Bundy, the embattled cattle rancher from Nevada – whose property was surrounded and stormed by armed Bureau of Land Management agents over the course of several days in 2014 – has filed a complaint in federal court against President Obama, Sen. Harry Reid and others, alleging his constitutional rights were infringed.

WND has reportedly extensively on the Bundy affair, here and here, and then here.

The suit filed Tuesday and posted on Larry Klayman’s website names Obama, Reid, Clark County Commission Chairman Rory Reid – who is Harry Reid’s son – and U.S. District Court Judge Gloria Navarro, accusing them of violating his constitutional rights and seeking a release from solitary confinement, as well as a dismissal of his indictment.

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