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Supreme Court takes animal cruelty / free speech case
Marissa Curran, (departing) head of HLS SALDF, says: Read the cert petition in the case that the Supreme Court just accepted! It involves a First Amendment challenge to a federal law that bans the sale of videos depicting illegal animal … Continue reading
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Spain: legal rights for great apes
Spanish parliament is set to pass a law that will give great apes “the right to life, the freedom from arbitrary deprivation of liberty, and protection from torture,” including experimentation. Details.
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Vets’ boast
From Animal Law class: “Real doctors work on more than one species.”
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Finished: Animal Liberation, The Amber Spyglass
I finished Animal Liberation and The Amber Spyglass over my school break. (I also read a somewhat trashy sci-fi horror book, “Infected.” I’ve read some really excellent new and new-to-me sci-fi over the past few months, but also some real … Continue reading
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Introducing the catmill
From the dogfighting case Hargrove v. State (Georgia 1984), a description of some equipment found at a dogfighting arena: Also seized were two treadmills used for endurance and strength training and a device called a “catmill,” also for increasing stamina … Continue reading
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Pit bulls
In the face of municipal and private pit bull bans, some animal folks argue that pit bulls have a bad rap, and are not intrinsically more vicious than any other breed. This seems to be true, but it misses the … Continue reading
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Dog people
News from the front: informal survey suggests my Animal Law class is about 90% dog people. Coincidence? Doubtful!
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Grand theory #145: reigning cats and dogs
All conflicts in the law can be explained as expressions of the larger social conflict between dog people and cat people.
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