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Challenging Hormel’s Deceptive Advertising Practices: Natural Choice®
Update: The Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a motion to dismiss its lawsuit as its disputes have been resolved. Read more in the press release. In 2016, the Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a lawsuit against…
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Challenging the Use of GPS Tracking Devices on Hunting Dogs Without Environmental Assessment (2016)
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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Animal Legal Defense Fund Proposes Clarifications to Strengthen Federal Animal Welfare Act
In 2016, the Animal Legal Defense Fund submitted a petition for rulemaking to the U.S. Department of Agriculture proposing two amendments to the federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA), the primary law providing protections to captive wildlife.…
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Challenging Smoky Hill Calling Contest
In August 2016, the Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a complaint on behalf of Western Plains Animal Refuge (WPAR) against the hosts of the “Smoky Hill Calling Contest,” a coyote-killing competition in which participants paid money…
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Oppose the Florida Black Bear Hunt
In 2015, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission authorized the killing of 320 black bears in the first Florida black bear hunt allowed in the state since 1994. A group called Speak Up Wekiva, Inc.…
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Urging the NIH to recognize that chimeric should be protected as human research subjects
In 2016, the Animal Legal Defense Fund submitted comments to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) urging the agency to recognize that chimeric and transgenic animals with humanized cognition should be protected as human research subjects,…
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Fight for Animals’ Intrinsic Value In Wrongful Death of Dog
The Animal Legal Defense Fund filed an amicus brief to support a family suing a boarding facility for gross negligence that allegedly led to the death of the family’s dog, Lola. When the case made it…
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Challenging Cricket Hollow Zoos Treatment of Endangered Lions (2016)
In 2016, while the Animal Legal Defense Fund’s first case against Cricket Hollow Zoo was still pending, we filed our second lawsuit against Cricket Hollow based on violations of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) after African…
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Challenging Biotech Company’s Treatment of Animals in Research
In 2013, the Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a complaint on behalf of Stop Animal Exploitation Now against Santa Cruz Biotechnology in a groundbreaking lawsuit against an animal research facility under California’s state cruelty law and…
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Challenging the Army’s Eviction of Horses at Fort Polk
The Animal Legal Defense Fund is providing assistance for a lawsuit filed against the Army over plans to evict roughly 700 wild horses from a western Louisiana Army base and national forest areas.
