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Defending California’s Proposition 12 Against Iowa Industry Group’s Challenge
Multiple industry groups have sought to overturn Prop 12, California's landmark farmed animal protection law. Now, the Iowa Pork Producers Association has filed a lawsuit. The Animal Legal Defense Fund's coalition is helping defend the law. -
Challenging the USDA’s Secret Policy on Laboratory Inspections
The agency that oversees the care and conditions of animals in research facilities said it wouldn’t outsource AWA inspections to private organizations after facing public outcry against the proposal. Then it implemented such a policy in secret. -
Defending California’s Landmark Farmed Animal Protection Law, Proposition 12
For the second time, the Animal Legal Defense Fund has intervened to help California defend its landmark farmed animal protection law, Proposition 12. The case will next be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. -
California Court of Appeals Affirms SPCAs Can Enforce State Animal Cruelty Laws
The California Court of Appeals affirmed a ruling by a lower court recognizing Society for the Prevention of Animal Cruelty (SPCA) organizations’ ability to file lawsuits against entities that violate existing animal protection laws.June 9, 2022 Press Release -
Challenging Emergency Declaration for Border Wall
The Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a lawsuit arguing that the administration’s emergency declaration — to justify constructing a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border — was unlawful. -
Tofurky Mounts Free Speech Challenge Against Arkansas Meat Label Law
ACLU, GFI, and Animal Legal Defense Fund Lawsuit Defending Tofurky’s First Amendment Rights Comes Amid Multi-State Censorship EffortsJuly 22, 2019 Press Release -
Lawsuit Challenges Constitutionality of Arkansas Ag-Gag Law
Advocates for animals, free speech and the environment take on secrecy at factory farms following victories in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and IowaJune 25, 2019 Press Release -
Challenging Arkansas’ Meat Labeling Law
The Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a federal lawsuit challenging an Arkansas law that prohibits plant- and cell-based meat producers from, among other things, using “meat” terminology because their products do not come from a slaughtered animal. -
Challenging Arkansas’s Ag-Gag Law
The Animal Legal Defense Fund led a coalition that filed a lawsuit in Arkansas challenging the constitutionality of the state’s Ag-Gag law — which prohibits undercover investigations that expose abuses at factory farms and other businesses…
