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  • Seek Permit Revocation of Puerto Rico Zoo

    The Animal Legal Defense Fund submitted complaints to the Puerto Rico Department of Agriculture and the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources. More than 100 animals live in abysmal conditions at Puerto Rico’s only official zoo.
  • Challenging Backyard Butchers in Florida

    In July 2018, the Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a lawsuit to shut down four black market backyard slaughter operations outside of Fort Myers, Florida. These operations violate state animal cruelty and slaughter laws, and nuisance…

  • Ben the Bear Caged at Roadside Zoo in North Carolina

    In 2012, the Animal Legal Defense Fund, along with PETA and two residents of Cumberland County, North Carolina, filed suit against Jambbas Ranch Tours in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The roadside zoo had numerous “Animal (AWA) citations…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Challenging Fur-Ever Wild’s Treatment of Wolves

    In 2017, the Animal Legal Defense Fund sued wildlife exhibition and fur-harvesting facility “Fur-Ever Wild” for violating the Endangered Species Act (ESA) by killing threatened gray wolves.
  • 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…

  • Seeking Enforcement of Pennsylvania’s Dog Law

    In 2008, as part of the Pennsylvania Dog Law, the Pennsylvania state legislature enacted some of the most comprehensive regulations on commercial dog breeders in the nation. The law was aimed primarily at  easing the suffering…