Academic

University of California goes to court against animal rights activists
The University of California system is going to court to stop animal rights activists who protest and threaten what they believe are unethical experiments on animals by science faculty members, National Public Radio reported...

Animal-rights activists take credit for mink breakout
Lovely story from Oregon, where the Animal Liberation Front broke into a farm and released 215 mink -- so they would "have a chance at a free natural life." Farmers have found 177 of the uncaged beasts...

Domestic Terrorism or Free Speech
Six Philadelphia-based animal rights activists went on trial this week in a federal courthouse in Trenton, N.J. for their alleged direct harassment of a contract research company with animal-testing labs in the state of New Jersey, Huntingdon Life Sciences...

En banc Third Circuit constitutionally distinguishes animal porn from child porn
In a ruling that surely will not please aminal rights activists (but provides great material for teachers of animal law), the en banc Third Circuit today found unconstitutional a federal law criminalizing the sale of creation, sale, or possession of...

New L&C Law Scholarship: Animal Law Volume 14, Number 1
The latest issue of Lewis & Clark Law School’s Animal Law is now out. Here are the articles published in Volume 14, Number 1 of Animal Law, complete with links to the abstracts and full-text articles: Articles A Contractarian View of Animal Rights: Insuring Against the Possibility of Being A Non-Human Animal by Julie Hilden Animal Experimentation: Lessons [...

New L&C Law Scholarship: A Contractarian View of Animal Rights
Julie Hilden, A Contractarian View of Animal Rights: Insuring Against the Possibility of Being A Non-Human Animal, 14 Animal Law 5 (2007) Contemporary research results regarding non-human animals’ intelligence, emotional life, and capacity for reciprocity strongly suggest the need for a sweeping re-evaluation of their legal status as mere property...

Cumulative Voting
Protecting minority shareholder interests

The Civil Rights Act of 1871
Law bans discrimination enacted under color of state law

State Will Statutes
State Differences in Last Will and Testament Checklist

Discrimination
Federal laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability

Heart of Atlanta v United States
Supreme Court Decision: Civil Rights Act Protected by Interstate Commerce Clause

Rally Rights
Gettysburg Borough awards arrested protester $22,500 civil rights settlement.

Teva Animal Health Expands Ketamine Hydrochloride Recall
Teva Animal Health Expands Ketamine Hydrochloride Recall

MindWare
Animal Tracking Explorer Kit Recalled

Civil / Human Rights
alleging violations of basic human and civil rights.

PETCO
Animal Food Distribution Unsanitary, Food Seized

Google Sued for Violating the Privacy Rights of Millions of Americans
Google Sued for Violating the Privacy Rights of Millions of Americans