Media & Entertainment Law

PETA is Full of SHIT-A - PETA Shows Itself To Be Tone Deaf in its Lack of Concern for Boy Scout E. coli Illnesses
While young children struggle with Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome and others recover slowly for E. coli O157:H7 illnesses, PETA does something incredibly stupid; it writes a public letter extolling the virtues of eating vegan...

PETA stands for all animals, even filthy, disease-ridden ones
Fun Fact: Wimbledon organizers have used gunmen to take out neighboring pigeons, so the birds won't annoy players in the tennis touranment. Not-As-Much-Fun Fact: PETA is outraged over the bird shootings, and has written a letter to Wimbledon stating that...

More Trade Secrets for the Dogs
In a follow-up to a previous post which can be found here, “PETA has filed a request for a rehearing with the Mississippi Supreme Court after the justices ruled that the information PETA was seeking about animal experiments at Mississippi State University (MSU) for cat- and dog-food company Iams is exempt from public disclosure...

PETA Still All About Female Nudity
Latest example here. See also. See also. There don’t seem to be very many male members of this organization, at least not many willing to pose nude in front of the PETA cameras...

PETA wants nursing home residents' stimulus payment..!
This morning, PETA dispatched a letter to the country's five leading nursing-home chains asking them to urge their residents who haven't yet filed a tax return for their economic stimulus check to do so and to donate the money to...

Hey PETA: What's Bugging You
PETA is upset about a promotion at an amusement park. Eat a live Madagascar hissing cockroach and receive unlimited "line-cutting" privileges. ...(read more)

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Remicade, Enbrel, Humira, Cimzia
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Princeton Review
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US Army Corps of Engineers
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Security Breach
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Data Breach
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