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Lucky the Lonely Elephant
Lucky is an Asian elephant who was at San Antonio Zoo since 1962, after being captured from the wild in Thailand in 1960. She was less than a year old at the time she was taken…
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Challenge the Wildlife Services for Failing to Comply with NEPA
In July 2017, the Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services agency for failing to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which requires the agency to…
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Defending Our Rights Under the Texas Anti-SLAPP Statute
The Animal Legal Defense Fund was sued by Laundry’s after making public comments that discussed the Aquarium’s mistreatment of four captive white tigers and asserted that such treatment violated the Endangered Species Act. -
Defending Devil’s Garden’s Wild Horses (2014)
In 1971, Congress passed the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, which requires preservation of rangelands on which wild horses exist. Devil’s Garden Wild Horse Territory in northeast California’s Modoc National Forest is officially designated as…
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Opposing Feld Entertainment’s Tiger Export
In March 2017, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) pre-published notice that Feld Entertainment, the multi-billion dollar parent corporation of the shuttered Ringling Bros. Circus, was applying for an Endangered Species Act permit to export…
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Forcing Disclosure of Foster Farms Water Usage Records
Foster Farms operates a slaughterhouse and poultry processing plant in Livingston, California that uses vast quantities of city water. The Animal Legal Defense Fund requested records from Livingston to investigate Foster Farms’ water usage during the…
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Candy the Chimp Caged at Dixie Landin’
When the Animal Legal Defense Fund brought suit in 2015, Candy was a 50-year-old chimpanzee. She’d been held captive for decades, alone in a barren cage at Dixie Landin’, an amusement park in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.…
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Defending Animal Activists’ First Amendment Rights
In April 2017, the Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a motion to dismiss Manning Beef’s lawsuit against Los Angeles Cow Save, a group that organizes vigils for slaughtered animals on the public road in front of…
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Exposing the Living Conditions of Hens Used by the Egg Industry
In March 2017, the Animal Legal Defense Fund sued the the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) for violating the California Public Records Act by unlawfully withholding records regarding living conditions of hens used by…
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Opposing International Wildlife Conservation Council
In 2017, the Animal Legal Defense Fund submitted a substantial objection comment letter to the United States Department of Interior’s proposal to create a so-called International Wildlife Conservation Council. Despite its name, the proposed council’s express…
