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Showing posts with label animal welfare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animal welfare. 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...
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...
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, August 11, 2021

'What is truth?': 8th Circuit wrangles over ag gag

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The Eighth Circuit reached mixed outcomes yesterday in First Amendment review of the Iowa "ag gag" law, upholding a criminal proh...
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...
Wednesday, January 20, 2021

In memoriam: Cassandra M. Langtry, JD class of '23

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I'm saddened to share news of the passing of Cassie Langtry, a law student in my fall 2019 Torts I class, on January 15.    An obituary ...