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Showing posts with label animal law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animal law. Show all posts
Monday, March 11, 2024

Book supports legal privilege for undercover reporting

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Truth and Transparency , a recent book by Professors Alan K. Chen and Justin Marceau , is a comprehensive and gratifying tour of the histor...
Friday, March 8, 2024

Pomeranian isn't a child, but must be shared by separating human parents, court rules in equity

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Pexels , licensed , by Tiểu Bảo Trương (not Teddy Bear) Who's a good boy? A Pomeranian named Teddy Bear will split his time between his ...
Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Court rejects 'super tort' theory in suit alleging animal cruelty, though concurrence mentions rights of nature

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Kodiak bear at Olympic Game Farm, a private zoo in Washington. Analise Zocher via Flickr CC BY 2.0 The Animal Legal Defense Fund tried but ...
Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Nike, Puma stop making shoes with kangaroo leather

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Nike and Puma both announced this year that they will stop using kangaroo leather to make shoes. I didn't know that kangaroo leather wa...
Friday, May 19, 2023

NYPD seizes adorable dog, person too, in retaliation for video-recording in public, attorney-plaintiff alleges

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A New York legal aid attorney was arrested, along with her dog, when she started video-recording police, and then she sued for civil rights ...
Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Habeas petition for woolly monkey was valid, Ecuadorian court rules, recognizing right of nature

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A silvery woolly monkey at the Louisville Zoo (Ltshears CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons ) The Constitutional Court of Ecuador entered a ...
Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Landlord owes no duty to cyclist attacked by tenant's dog, court rules, citing breed discrimination ban

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A "dog law" decision in the Massachusetts Appeals Court today recognized the state's ban on breed-specific legislation and ref...
Sunday, September 13, 2020

Animal champion Barr, J.D. '21, wins scholarship

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Abbey and Toby An alum of my torts class and president of the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund at UMass Law (I'm a faculty adviser), A...
Saturday, August 29, 2020

Conservationists battle to curb wildlife trade in wet markets, attorney Venckauskas writes

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Prawns at a Marché Kermel in Dakar, Senegal, in February (RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-SA 4.0 ) Attorney Kayla Venckauskas wrote an overview of c...
Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Recent commentaries ponder privacy in license plates, history of animal identity

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Two blog entries tangentially related to areas of interest of mine crossed my desk this week. CC TV ( Adrian Pingstone CC0 ) Privacy...