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Fifth Circuit Rules that Animal Crush Video Law Prohibits Obscenity and Congress Has Significant Interest in Preventing Animal Cruelty
The Fifth Circuit reversed and remanded a 2013 ruling by the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Texas, which had held that animal crush videos are not obscene and that the Act violated defendants’ First Amendment rights.June 14, 2014 News -
Environmentalism as a Form of Animal Rights
As the field of animal law grows, with more classes, books, cases on file and precedent, many wonder how animal law relates to the field of environmental law, which is similar in many ways. -
Animal Legal Defense Fund Urges Sonoma County to Void Contract with Federal Wildlife Services
Organization Points to Severe Cruelty and Dangerous Legal Violations in Agency’s Kill MethodsMay 16, 2013 Press Release -
Shifting California Law toward a Recognition that Injured Animals Are Not “Replaceable” Forms of Property
On October 23, the Second District for the California Court of Appeals issued an important decision stating that when a dog, cat or other companion animal is negligently or intentionally injured, the animal’s legal owner may be compensated…
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Historic Legal Decision Protects Cats From Being Returned to Their Abuser
Oregon Court of Appeals Grants Petition to Permanently Remove Cats from their Neglectful Owner in Linn County Hoarding Case, Sets Vital Precedent for Animal Law.December 29, 2006 Press Release
