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  • Animal Sales and Rehoming Scams: How to Spot Them

    While Craigslist officially bans the sale of companion animals, in reality such sales are common on the platform, with sellers often using the term “rehoming” in order to skirt the ban. Scams are widespread, with unethical breeders and dealers frequently selling animals who are sick, stolen, or even nonexistent.
    Legal Resource

  • Year End Impact Report 2020

    As 2020 comes to an end, we’re looking back at our biggest legal victories for animals over the last year and looking ahead at what’s to come in 2021. Join Stephen Wells, executive director of the Animal Legal Defense Fund, as he shares stories behind this year’s biggest victories.
    Webinar

  • New York Town Hall

    Join us for a presentation to review animal protection bills in the New York legislature – and learn ways that you can directly impact bill movement.
    Webinar

  • New California Laws Aim to Save More Companion Animals in Shelters

    California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed two bills intended to reduce the killing of adoptable companion animals in the state.
    October 23, 2020 Animal Law Update

  • Islamabad High Court Holds that Animals Have Legal Rights

    The Islamabad High Court has held that animals have natural rights and are entitled to protection under the Pakistani constitution. The case before the court was threefold, involving an elephant held in solitary confinement at a zoo, a rescued bear who had been forced to “dance” and perform tricks, and the killing of stray dogs.
    October 2, 2020 Animal Law Update

  • Animal Law Course Grants

    The Animal Legal Defense Fund is expanding its existing “seed grant” program to also offer emergency grants to law schools who have had to cancel an animal law course for COVID-19 related reasons.
    Legal Resource

  • Spotlight: Mary K. Walsh

    Mary K. Walsh is a 2020 recipient of the Animal Legal Defense Fund’s Advancement in Animal Law Scholarship.
    June 23, 2020 Student Chapter Spotlight

  • Emergency Petition to Food & Drug Administration to Suspend Ractopamine Use

    The Animal Legal Defense Fund filed an emergency petition with the Food and Drug Administration to suspend the agency’s approval of ractopamine — a drug used to rapidly grow muscle in cows and pigs, which can harm the animals and the environment.
    Case

  • Lawsuit Filed Against FDA Over Drug Approval of Experior

    The drug is a beta-agonist — the same class as ractopamine and other drugs known to cause significant health effects in pigs.
    June 4, 2020 Press Release

  • Stress and Zoonotic Diseases

    In the wake of the current pandemic, join public health expert Dr. Aysha Akhtar, Animal Legal Defense Fund Executive Director Stephen Wells, and Staff Attorney Kelsey Eberly for a round table discussion about the impacts of stress and confinement on disease transmission between animals—and conditions where they are most likely to jump to humans.
    June 3, 2020 Webinar