Episode 6: Crimes on Behalf of Animals

Resources

Resources referenced in this episode along with additional relevant articles are listed below:

• NPR: Animal Rights Activist on Trial in Canada for Giving Water to Pigs
• Animal Studies Journal: Bodily Encounter, Bearing Witness and the Engaged Activism of the Global Save Movement by Alex Lockwood
• USDA National Agricultural Library: Twenty-Eight Hour Law
• Animal Legal Defense Fund: Defending Animal Activists’ First Amendment Rights
• Animal Legal Defense Fund: Animal Advocates Win Free Speech Case, Judge Dismisses Meritless Trespassing Suit Intended to Silence Critics
• Reporters Committee: Understanding Anti-SLAPP Laws
• Animal Legal & Historical Center: Maps of States that Have to Protect Animals in Parked Cars
• Animal Legal Defense Fund: Oregon Becomes 11^th State to Pass “Good Samaritan Law” to Protect Dogs Left in Hot Cars by Nicole Pallotta
• Medium: Yes, I Broke into a Mercedes with My Car Jack by Shawna Harch
• GOV.UK: Pet Abduction to be Made New Criminal Offence in Crackdown on Pet Theft
• Time: Lady Gaga Got Her Dogs Back, but as Criminals Capitalize on the Demand for Pandemic Pups, Others Aren’t So Lucky by Melissa Chan
• Office of the Governor Doug Ducey: Governor Ducey Signs “Matthew’s Law” to Protect Pets, Families
• Animal Legal Defense Fund: Ag-Gag Laws
• Seattle University Law Review: Ag Gag Past, Present, and Future by Justin F. Marceau
• First Amendment Watch: Ag-Gag Laws Face the First Amendment
• USDA Economic Research Service: Market Failures: When the Invisible Hand Gets Shaky
• Animal Legal Defense Fund: Challenging Judy’s Family Farm Organic Eggs’ Deceptive Advertising
• Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act
• Center for Constitutional Rights: The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA)
• FindLaw: United States v. Fullmer, 584 F.3d 132, 164 (3d Cir. 2009)
• Case Western Reserve Law Review: United States v. Fullmer and the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act: “True Threats” to Advocacy
• The Intercept: How the Prosecution of Animal Rights Activists as Terrorists Foretold Today’s Criminalization of Dissent by Natasha Lennard
• MSU Journal of Animal & Natural Resource Law: Justifying Force Against Animal Cruelty by Ross Campbell
• Spolin Law: Can “Defense of Others” Apply in Animal Abuse Cases
• The Dodo: Open Rescue: How UPC Introduced This Strategy to U.S. Activists by Karen Davis
• Unbound Project: Fierce and Fearless: Patty Mark’s Unique Approach to Animal Liberation by Keri Cronin
• United Poultry Concerns: Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? Reflections on the Liberation of Animals

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