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New Course Guides Available: Companion Animal Law, Farmed Animal Law, and Wildlife Law
We're excited to encourage lawyers and law students to become animal lawyers. The Animal Legal Defense Fund is pleased to offer a new resource for legal educators, including free animal law course guides.September 11, 2018 Professional Legal Resource -
Back to School 2018
During this interactive webinar, Joyce Tischler will detail the lives of farmed animals and the laws (or lack thereof) that protect them. -
Though Denied by New York Court of Appeals, Habeas Corpus Claim for Chimpanzees Prompts Reflection
On May 8, 2018, the New York Court of Appeals denied the Nonhuman Rights Project’s (NhRP) motion to review a lower court’s ruling that two caged chimpanzees were not subject to the law of habeas corpus.September 7, 2018 Animal Law Update -
Animal Legal Defense Fund Amicus Brief Supports Protections of Chickens During Kaporos Festival
The Animal Legal Defense Fund has filed an amicus brief in a lawsuit aimed at protecting the chickens used during Brooklyn’s annual kaporos festival, and calling on the court to require the City of New York Police Department to enforce stateSeptember 7, 2018 News -
Speak Out for Farmed Animals Month
Speak Out for Farmed Animals is a yearly event dedicated to raising public awareness nationwide about the lack of meaningful laws that protect farmed animals from cruel treatment. Join us every fall to take action for farmed animals. -
Animal Legal Defense Fund Offers $5,000 Reward in Case of Serial Cat Killer
Reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or people responsible for killing 13 cats in Thurston CountySeptember 5, 2018 Press Release -
Lawsuit Raises the Stakes in Food Fight Over the Term “Meat”
Missouri legislators passed a law that will prohibit “misrepresenting” any product as “meat” if it does not come from a slaughtered animal, In a brazen attempt to stifle the growing grocery category of plant-based meat.August 27, 2018 Press Release -
Siskiyou County Suspends Contract With Federal Wildlife Killing Program
Siskiyou is the latest county in California to reexamine and suspend its contract with Wildlife Services amid legal pressure from the animal-protection and conservation coalition led by the Animal Legal Defense Fund.August 24, 2018 News -
Maryland Requires Research Facilities to Help Surviving Dogs and Cats Find Adoptive Homes After Experiments End
Maryland has joined the growing list of states that require research facilities to make efforts to find adoptive homes for healthy, surviving dogs and cats rather than putting them to death at the conclusion of the research.August 23, 2018 Animal Law Update -
Maryland Becomes Second State to Ban Retail Sales of Animals Sourced from Puppy and Kitten Mills
On April 24, 2018, Governor Larry Hogan signed into law HB 1662, the “No More Puppy-Mill Pups Act of 2018,” making Maryland the second state to ban the retail sale of dogs and cats obtained from commercial breeding facilities.August 15, 2018 Animal Law Update
