Sentences with phrase «bring animal cruelty charges»
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Provisions like North Carolina's 19A Statute, which ALDF used in the unprecedented ALDF v. Woodley case in Sanford, N.C., allow any private citizen or organization to bring civil charges against abusers for violating animal cruelty laws.
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In most states, a prosecutor must be the one to bring charges against animal hoarders for committing acts of cruelty to animals.
What!?!?! One commenter notes that dumping animals is considered animal cruelty in the State of Arkansas... wonder if the good mayor gets brought up on felony animal cruelty charges...
In that case, three separate actions for malicious prosecution were brought against the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (the «OSPCA») who had charged three individuals with animal cruelty offences.
Obtained a directed verdict on all but one count of a complaint and a defendants» verdict on the remaining count for two Fairfield County police officers accused of false imprisonment, unreasonable search and seizure pursuant to the Fourth Amendment, and malicious prosecution in a case brought by two elderly residents charged with animal cruelty.
I suggest that if you were to treat any pet in this manner you would quickly be brought up on animal cruelty charges.