The fate of an Iowa law criminalizing undercover investigations of slaughterhouses and meatpacking factories hangs in the balance after a federal judge ruled groups challenging the statute made valid free-speech claims under the First Amendment.
Read moreAttorneys for a coalition of animal-protection, consumer-rights, and food-safety organizations on Thursday urged the Fourth Circuit to overturn a North Carolina law they say amounts to a gag order for whistleblowers and chills their freedom of speech.
Read moreA federal judge on Thursday tossed a lawsuit over the removal of a “slew’ of inspection and licensing documents related to animal research facilities from a federal website, holding that since most of them have now been put back, no controversy exists.
Read moreA coalition of animal rights and food safety groups filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of Iowa’s “ag-gag” law that makes it a crime to conduct undercover investigations at factory farms and slaughterhouses.
Read moreA nature photographer and animal rights group settled their two-year dispute over the ownership of a monkey’s selfies on Monday, just as the Ninth Circuit was mulling an appeal in the case.
Read moreA small roadside zoo in western Maryland is once again accused of violating federal animal-protection laws by neglecting lemurs, tigers and lions.
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Fighting to revive a copyright suit over monkey selfies, a lawyer told a Ninth Circuit panel on Wednesday that non-human corporations shouldn’t have more rights than animals to protect artistic works.
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Animal-welfare activists slapped the government with a federal complaint Monday for clawing back thousands of public records that it had made available to the public for years on the internet.
Read moreThe nonprofit Missouri Primate Foundation claims in court that PETA used a spy to defame it by taking undercover photos and videos of its chimpanzee housing facilities to try to build a case to take the chimps.
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A Michigan zoo claims in a federal lawsuit that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals harassed it, threatened litigation and made defamatory statements about the zoo’s chimpanzee exhibit.
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