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Legally Brief: L.A. Animal Law Symposium
Recently, we told you about the shocking results of an investigation of horrendous cruelty to animals used in taxpayer-funded, government-supported experiments. Farmed animals have so few legal...
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Legally Brief: ALDF Leads the Way in Farmed Animal Litigation
Over the years, ALDF has filed some of the most innovative lawsuits in history against the animal agricultural industry. During ALDF’s Speak Out for Farmed Animals Week, I’d like to share some of our...
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Legally Brief: 5 Ways ALDF Is Challenging Factory Farming of Animals
Factory farms, where animals are raised for production of meat, eggs, and dairy, are the cause of unimaginable suffering for billions of animals in the U.S. each year. They are also a major...
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Legally Brief: Animals in Entertainment
P.T. Barnum, circus magnate and author of The Art of Money Getting, once said, “Nobody ever lost a dollar underestimating the taste of the American public.” In that cynical spirit, Barnum bought Jumbo...
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Legally Brief: The Cruel Mechanics of Cecil’s Agonizing Death
In June of this year, Walter Palmer, a Minnesota dentist, paid $50,000 to a professional hunting guide in Zimbabwe. Palmer later claimed that he believed this fee would give him the legal right to...
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Sentient Legislation: ALDF’s Canadian Province Rankings Motivate Change
In June 2015, ALDF released its eighth annual ranking of Canada’s provinces and territories based on the strength of their animal protection legislation. With Manitoba holding on to the top spot in...
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Class-Action Encouragement: Barkworks’ Case Brings Puppy Mills Into Focus
More than 40 million households provide homes to at least one dog in the US. We are a nation of avowed dog lovers. Yet nearly 4 million dogs enter our shelters every year and more than a million of...
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Putting the Spin on Flying Elephants to Omaha
Three American zoos have orchestrated a fairly tricky sleight-of-hand to remove 18 African elephants from their native grasslands and plant them in expensive faux-habitat exhibits in the U.S. The...
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Legally Brief: Exotic Animals and the Law
States that do not set even minimal safety and animal welfare requirements for private ownership of captive wild animals are playing a dangerous game that too often results in tragedy both for the...
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Ag-Gag: Outlawing Voices Who Speak for the Voiceless
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the federal agency responsible for the enforcement of laws pertaining to farming, agriculture, and food production, estimates that more than 9 billion...
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Elephants in Captivity: Demanding an End to Cruel Confinement
Today, an Asian elephant named Lucky shuffles and sways in a zoo in San Antonio, Texas, where she has spent 53 long years. Since the death of her companion in 2013, Lucky has lived entirely alone in...
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Legally Brief: Neuter the Puppy Mills
Earlier this year, ALDF sent an undercover investigator to capture video at a puppy mill in McIntosh, New Mexico—Southern Roc Airedales—after receiving multiple complaints from the facility’s...
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Captive Big Cats: Now You See Them, Soon (We Hope) You Won’t
Late last month, the Animal Legal Defense Fund partnered with Keepers of the Wild, a big cat sanctuary in Arizona, to formally urge Las Vegas magician Dirk Arthur to retire the big cats used in his...
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Legally Brief: Leaders in Animal Law Gather in Los Angeles
Legal professionals who care about animals should circle May 21 on their calendars. That’s the day the Animal Legal Defense Fund puts on the second annual Animal Law Symposium in Los Angeles. The...
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Legally Brief: Behind Closed Doors, Beneath the Law
Farmed animals in the U.S. receive virtually no protection under federal law except for regulations of the way they are transported and slaughtered. Despite the last few decades’ slow expansion of...
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Scales Tilt Toward Justice for Animals Abused in Research Labs
In late May, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, a large supplier of animal subjects for laboratory testing, reached a record-setting settlement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), agreeing to pay a...
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SALDF Fostering Growth for Next Generation of Animal Advocates
With 190 chapters established in the U.S. and 22 internationally, ALDF’s Student Animal Legal Defense Fund (SALDF) chapter program has taken law schools by storm. Through SALDF, we provide grants and...
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Legally Brief: Animal Law Conference 2016
On the weekend of Oct. 7, 2016 the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the Center for Animal Law Studies at Lewis & Clark Law School and the Lewis & Clark Student Animal Legal Defense Fund chapter...
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Protecting Pennsylvania’s Mother Dogs from Puppy Mill Neglect
In 2008, as part of the Pennsylvania Dog Law, the Pennsylvania state legislature enacted some of the most comprehensive regulations on commercial dog breeders in the nation. The state had become, in...
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Live Animal Mascots: A Tradition of Exploitation, Not Conservation
Since 1936, Louisiana State University has kept a series of live tigers as mascots, all named Mike. The most recent tiger, Mike VI, was euthanized in October after a four-month battle with cancer. LSU...
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