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Animal Cruelty? The Legal Way to Abuse a Chicken
The same animal can have different legal protections based on the context in which she is being used.May 7, 2015 News -
Funding Justice: Cash in New York Crime Busts Goes to Fight Animal Cruelty
Animal victims of cruelty got a boost last week in Nassau County, New York when Acting District Attorney Madeline Singas pledged to use money from criminal cases to help protect animals.May 7, 2015 News -
Mobile Billboard Protests Controversial, Secretive “Terror Tests” on Baby Monkeys
Animal protection groups send billboard through Madison to raise awareness of University of Wisconsin’s archaic, cruel experiments.May 6, 2015 Press Release -
Interview with Karen Joy Fowler
The Animal Legal Defense Fund interviews Karen Joy Fowler, author of the stunning novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, this month at Green Apple Books in San Francisco.May 5, 2015 News -
Runaway Carriage Horse on Streets of St. Louis: Animal Legal Defense Fund Files Restraining Order Against Reckless Industry
The Animal Legal Defense Fund has filed a request for a temporary restraining order against the St. Louis Metropolitan Taxicab Commission after yet another horse ran wild through city streets, barely averting disaster.May 1, 2015 News -
Advancing the Law for Great Apes: Legal Personhood
On April 20, animal law made an historic leap forward with the case of two chimpanzees, Hercules and Leo, who are being held captive for use in experiments by Stony Brook University.April 29, 2015 News -
Indiana “Pig Wrestling” Violates Local Anti-cruelty Laws
Sports involving the exploitation of animals are grotesque, and “pig wrestling” is no different.April 28, 2015 News -
Hearing in Public Interest Coalition’s Constitutional Challenge to Idaho’s Controversial “Ag-Gag” Law
Advocates ask court for judgment in suit against law that silences industry whistle-blowers.April 27, 2015 Press Release -
Does Every Animal Count? Not in California
120 day sentence handed down for killing over 900 chickens with a golf club.April 24, 2015 News -
Legally Brief: 5 Ways the Animal Legal Defense Fund Is Challenging Factory Farming of Animals
Here are 5 ways the Animal Legal Defense Fund is challenging factory farming’s free ride.April 23, 2015 Legally Brief