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“Puppy Laundering” Scheme Violates California Law
The Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a lawsuit against the Animal Kingdom pet store and purported rescue group Bark Adoptions for unlawfully circumventing the California law that bans the retail sale of dogs. -
Challenging the Use of GPS Tracking Devices on Hunting Dogs Without Environmental Assessment (2018)
In 2016, the Animal Legal Defense Fund sued the California Fish and Game Commission, challenging the agency’s decision to allow hunters to outfit hunting dogs with GPS tracking devices and “treeing switches.” The lawsuit, filed in…
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Challenging the Sale of Puppy Mill Dogs – Barkworks Class Action
In 2014, the Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a lawsuit against Barkworks, a Southern California pet store chain with six locations. The lawsuit was brought on behalf of several puppy purchasers tricked by Barkworks into purchasing…
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Urging California Air Resources Board to Regulate Factory Farm Emissions
California is legally obligated to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, to stave the devastating effects of climate change. The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires California to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels…
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Opposing SeaWorld San Diego Permit for Expansion
In 2014, SeaWorld announced its “Blue World” plans to expand the tanks at its facility in San Diego. The announcement came in the wake of SeaWorld stock plunging some 30 percent, when the 2013 film BlackFish…
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Challenging Cal EXPO’s Use of Farrowing Crates (2017)
In 2017 the Animal Legal Defense Fund revived the issues of a 2013 lawsuit and brought a new case along with Humane ARME against the California Exposition and State Fair (Cal Expo) and Regents of the…
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Challenging Cal EXPO’s Use of Farrowing Crates (2013)
California has long been a leader in animal protection laws. But pigs kept at the California State Fair have suffered greatly, at taxpayer expense: pigs who recently gave birth being were exhibited in body-gripping “farrowing crates”…
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Challenging Stockton Animal Shelters Care of Animals
The Stockton Animal Shelter in Stockton, California, was rife with serious problems. The facility euthanized animals earlier than legally permitted, denied access to animals who could be saved by the public or rescuers, did not provide…
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California Bull Run
The Great Bull Run was a dangerous and cruel event modeled after Pamplona, in which dozens of panicked bulls are forced to stampede down a narrow track after up to a thousand runners, many of whom…
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Abuse at Los Angeles Zoo
In 2007, Los Angeles resident and taxpayer Aaron Leider sued the City of Los Angeles and the director of the Los Angeles Zoo to end the abuse of three of the zoo’s elephants. Billy, Tina, and…