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Entertainment 

Iditarod Changes Tack, Will Meet With Animal Welfare Leader

October 17, 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Alaska, animal rights, dogs, PETA

The new head of Alaska’s Iditarod plans to meet with a leader of an animal welfare group that’s devoted to ending the world’s most famous sled dog race, which it sees as a cruel, deadly event for its canine participants.

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Environment Law 

Lions and Tigers

July 29, 2019July 29, 2019 BRIEF
animals, dbrief2, Endangered Species Act, PETA

PETA successfully argued in federal court in Indiana that an exotic animal facility cannot transfer tigers, lions and other big cats to another location out of state under the terms of an injunction and preservation order.  

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Business Law Regional 

Judge Slams Maryland Roadside Zoo Over Death of Tiger

July 10, 2019 BRAD KUTNER
animals, Endangered Species Act, Maryland, PETA, zoo

After a federal judge found a roadside zoo in Maryland violated the Endangered Species Act by not giving adequate care to a tiger that is now dead, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said the ruling should send a clear message to other wildlife facilities that may be mistreating animals.

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Business Sports 

Santa Anita Racetrack Closes After 21 Horses Die in 2 Months

March 5, 2019March 5, 2019 JON PARTON
California, gambling, horses, PETA

The Santa Anita racetrack in Southern California has indefinitely canceled its races after 21 horses have died at the track over the past two months.

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Courts Government Law 

PETA Blames Florida Zoo for Tiger Cub Deaths

June 11, 2018June 12, 2018 ALEX PICKETT
animal cruelty, animals, Florida, PETA, zoo

A private Florida zoo faced renewed accusations of animal abuse on Friday by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

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Civil Rights Health Science 

PETA Claims Texas A&M Tortures Dogs in a Lab

May 15, 2018May 17, 2018 CAMERON LANGFORD
animal rights, college, dogs, PETA, Texas, torture

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals took Texas A&M University to federal court Monday, seeking an injunction to stop what it calls social media censorship of its campaign against the school’s research on dogs bred to develop muscular dystrophy.

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Business Government Law Regional 

Iowa Must Defend Controversial ‘Ag-Gag’ Law

March 1, 2018March 1, 2018 MATT REYNOLDS
ag-gag law, animal cruelty, farming, Free Speech, investigation, Iowa, PETA

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.

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Business Civil Rights Employment Government Regional 

PETA Tells Fourth Circuit NC Law Stymies Whistleblowers

January 25, 2018January 26, 2018 BRAD KUTNER
animals, Fourth Circuit, North Carolina, PETA, Whistleblower

Attorneys 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.

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Government National 

Judges Tosses PETA Lawsuit Over Records Removed from Ag Website

January 19, 2018January 22, 2018 ELLEN ROBINSON
animals, inspections, Medicine, PETA, public records, Research

A 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.

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Business Law Regional 

Animal, Food Safety Groups Fight Iowa’s ‘Ag-Gag’ Law

October 11, 2017 ROX LAIRD
ag-gag law, animal cruelty, farming, investigation, Iowa, PETA

A 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.

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Appeals Arts 

Suit Over Monkey’s Selfies Ends in Settlement

September 12, 2017September 13, 2017 NICHOLAS IOVINO
animal rights, Copyright, Ninth Circuit, PETA, Photography, Settlement

A 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. 

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Environment Law Regional 

Maryland Zoo Accused of Mistreating Lemurs, Big Cats

August 1, 2017 DANIEL W. STAPLES
animals, Endangered Species Act, Maryland, PETA, zoo

A 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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Appeals Entertainment Law 

PETA Fights to Revive ‘Monkey Selfie’ Copyright Suit

July 12, 2017July 13, 2017 NICHOLAS IOVINO
animal rights, Copyright, hearings, PETA

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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Entertainment Law Regional Sports 

Hoosier Fights to End Pig Wrestling at County Fair

March 17, 2017June 28, 2018 MARCIE SHIELDS
animal cruelty, animals, Indiana, injunction, PETA, pigs, Regional3, wrestling

Claiming a pig-wrestling contest scheduled for this year’s Harrison County Fair constitutes animal cruelty, an Indiana man sued to stop the event and make it a thing of the past through a permanent injunction.

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Government 

Animal-Welfare Records Loss Triggers Suit

February 15, 2017September 28, 2018 DANIEL W. STAPLES
animals, FOIA, internet, Law1, PETA, public records, USDA

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.

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Environment 

Missouri Primate Foundation Tells PETA to Back Off

January 5, 2017January 5, 2017 JOE HARRIS
animals, defamation, endangered species, PETA, primates

The 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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Business Regional 

Zoo Takes On PETA Over Chimpanzee Care

December 29, 2016July 9, 2018 DIONNE CORDELL-WHITNEY
animal rights, animals, defamation, Harassment, Michigan, PETA, Regional3, zoo

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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