The suit alleges Delta Airlines has interfered with their actual and prospective business relations, deters U.S. hunters from going to Africa and engaging in commerce that economically sustains range states, communities, safari operators and the related service industries, habitat, and wildlife.

The embargo cuts the funding available for safari operator anti-poaching units and community game scouts, which threatens to increase poaching and reduce the wildlife base. And the embargo diminishes wildlife authority operating revenue that would otherwise be used for anti-poaching and wildlife management. The suit also alleges that Delta’s embargo "Is illegal. Delta is failing to fulfill its obligations as a common carrier, and this failure injures and will continue to injure Plaintiffs until the unlawful embargo is lifted."

The suit asks the Court to declare that Delta has violated its federal common law duties as a common carrier. "Delta cannot discriminate against passengers or cargo.  Trophies of the Big Five are not dangerous goods. Delta’s irresponsible embargo appears to be based on misinformation and a misunderstanding of the legal status of these goods, and motivated by a desire to placate a noisy and ill-advised group of Facebook posters, at the expense of conservation programs, wildlife, and livelihoods of local peoples, and the interests of Plaintiffs."