Opposing Wisconsin’s Unconstitutional Hunter Protection Laws: Discussion and Analysis
Presented 9/12/24
Join Amanda Howell, Animal Legal Defense Fund Managing Attorney; Mark Leitner, ALDF outside counsel, who argued the law’s constitutionality, with Laffey, Leitner & Goode LLC; and John Watson, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, for a discussion of “hunter protection” laws and the groundbreaking Wisconsin case, Brown v. Kemp, that outlined how these laws violate the First Amendment rights of citizens who care about wolf and other wild animal populations.
This webinar was recorded on September 12, 2024. Watch it now!
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