After Groundbreaking Animal Rights Ruling

A Landmark Ruling for Animal Rights in Ecuador

About the ruling and our brief ... The Court found by a vote of seven to two that the scope of the rights of nature includes animals and thus ...

Ecuador's High Court Rules Wild Animals Have Legal Rights

The court announced the 7-2 verdict, effectively awarding rights to Estrellita, in a 57-page opinion released in January. The decision marks the ...

Kaavan Wins Freedom! • Center for Animal Law Studies

In an unprecedented and progressive step for animal welfare, a High Court in Pakistan has ruled that treating animals cruelly amounts to an ...

Is This America? Wayne Hsiung's Trial. - UnchainedTV

This series involves LIVE courthouse reports and expert panel discussions in real time of the trial of animal rights leader Wayne Hsiung, ...

Court Considers Penalty for Harming Stray Cats Under Evolving ...

The appeals court ruled that Kyles could be convicted of the misdemeanor-level cruelty that has applied to all animals since the 1800s. The ...

Hamilton County Chief Dog Warden praises ruling on animal cruelty ...

The ruling, passed down Wednesday, clarifies the definition of the state's animal cruelty law. This reversed the determination by the Eighth ...

The Swiss Primate Case: How Courts Have Paved the Way for the ...

Following the Cantonal Court's reasoning, the Supreme Court ... Some of the most prominent recent animal rights decisions include a 2014 ruling ...

The Elephant in the (Court)Room: Interdependence of Human and ...

After comprehensively recounting and considering the existing world-wide case law on animal rights [30-45], the Court states that “Like humans, ...

Legal Rights For Animals | Petfinder

The court ruled that he did suffer an injury and that he was disturbed when he repeatedly tried to visit. Since Jurnove planned to continue seeing the animals, ...

President Trump signs bill making animal cruelty a federal felony

The bill was passed in the Senate by unanimous decision on Nov. 5 after being approved in the House in late October. Animal cruelty ...

Lobbying leads to UN policy win for the welfare of farm animals ...

Farm animals worldwide will be better protected following the adoption of groundbreaking ... The ruling was made at the UN Committee on ...

Animals recognised as sentient beings under groundbreaking ...

City Services Minister Chris Steel said the ruling would make it easier to defend animal rights legally. “What we've done today in ...

The animal law conundrum: when are creatures "things”?

“You can give animals protection without giving them rights,” he said. “The two are separate things.” During the past few decades, animal protections have ...

The Link Between Animal Cruelty and Human Violence | FBI - LEB

Within NIBRS, animal cruelty encompasses the following four categories: simple/gross neglect, intentional abuse and torture, organized abuse, ...

Animal rights comes to 'America's Provence' and farmers are worried

The group argued that their action was legal under a California law against animal abuse. “Folks, we're about to march into a massive factory ...

The Elephant in the Room: Animal Welfare in the United States

2018: A bipartisan bill is passed to forbid the slaughter of cats and dogs for food in the United States. The Dog and Cat Meat Trade Prohibition ...

Lawyer's Quixotic (and Groundbreaking) Crusade for Chimps Rights ...

(Reuters) — In the first case of its kind, a New York appeals court has rejected an animal rights advocate's bid to extend “legal ...

Groundbreaking UN Resolution Connects Animal Welfare And ...

The Animal Welfare – Environment – Sustainable Development Nexus resolution was accepted earlier this month after being sponsored by seven ...

A Case for Animal Sentience in Pakistan “Kaavan” The Elephant's ...

to Affirm Original Decision” (Animal Legal Defense Fund 4 March 2021).

right to rescue animals

Today, Sonoma County Judge Lynette Brown dismissed multiple felony charges against UC Berkeley student and DxE animal cruelty investigator Zoe Rosenberg, after ...