Sentences with phrase «says the animal legal»
«Animals can't vote but that doesn't mean they shouldn't have a voice in the political process,» says the Animal Legal Defense Fund.
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«After dragging its feet for over a decade and wasting taxpayer dollars on an incomplete shelter, Barbour County's mere claim that it will open an animal shelter is not enough,» says Animal Legal Defense Fund Executive Director Stephen Wells.
Not exact matches
She said the WA government's legal advice was that the state's animal welfare law applied to live export ships.
A response from the government is expected later this year but a spokeswoman for the consumer group Choice, Ingrid Just, said there was an obvious need for a legal standard for all animal husbandry products.
Animal advocates say some pet dealers have long taken advantage of legal loopholes that allowed them to be classified as humane societies to avoid regulations.
«Our plan was to build genetic databases to use as enforcement references for confiscated animals, to empower local enforcement officials with the forensic, scientific and legal means of establishing a confiscated animal's provenance,» Brown said.
From there, the animals — which were the subjects of a 2 - year legal battle over their «personhood» — were supposed to go to Save the Chimps, a Fort Pierce, Florida — based nonprofit that bills itself as the world's largest chimpanzee sanctuary, says Molly Polidoroff, Save the Chimps» executive director.
Rapid advances in genome sequencing have provided promising new techniques to help researchers conserve endangered species, but efforts to resurrect extinct animals raise complex legal, ethical and environmental questions, experts said at a 4 November event at AAAS.
Regardless of whether Landrigan's legal team was simply using the drug shortage as stalling tactic, their legal maneuvering brings to the fore a contentious dispute over the science (or some would say lack thereof) behind lethal injection executions in the U.S.. For more than two decades, it has been argued that the FDA should be required to certify the safety and effectiveness of drugs used to carry out executions (as it does for drugs used to euthanize animals).
But a negative outcome could have the opposite effect, Cupp says, setting a statewide legal precedent that animals can not be legal persons.
«If animal rights groups continue to pursue the use of laws in ways they were not originally intended, I'm concerned that universities may be forced to expend additional resources to counteract these unwarranted legal attacks,» says Frankie Trull, president of the Foundation for Biomedical Research in Washington DC, which defends animal experiments.
«Since the EU's report... the ministry improved its animal welfare law issued in 2007,» said David Wernery, the legal adviser for the CVRL.
«Choosing to have an animal in your life comes with the legal responsibility of providing appropriate and humane care,» says Lynn Michaud, Senior Inspector, Ontario SPCA.
Unfortunately, there are still many places where the laws are incapable of providing the legal protections that our country's animals need and deserve,» says Stephan Otto, Animal Legal Defense Fund's director of legislative affairs and author of the relegal protections that our country's animals need and deserve,» says Stephan Otto, Animal Legal Defense Fund's director of legislative affairs and author of the reLegal Defense Fund's director of legislative affairs and author of the report.
As Kimberly mentioned, there are many sites out there (https://therapypet.org/blog/how-to-get-a-doctor-to-prescribe-an-esa/, https://www.emotionalsupportanimalco.com/, etc.) that sell emotional support animal letters — which basically is a legal doctor or therapist note saying the individual who we given the letter could benefits from having a therapy animal.
A few states, including neighboring Rhode Island, allow veterinarians to advocate for animals in court, said lawyer and animal advocate Thomas Page, but only Connecticut has legal advocates.
The ALDF's executive director Stephen Wells said in a statement, «The Animal Legal Defense Fund hopes the administration reverses course on this decision and will explore all available means to restore free and fair access to such vital public information.»
Practicing procedures on shelter animals is legal and follows industry standards, the university says.
The city initially had said it had no legal authority to remove Big Boy because it was adhering to a state law that defines a dangerous animal as one that attacks another animal more than once.
«Animals are living, sentient beings, but the law inadequately classifies them as property,» Lora Dunn, director of the criminal justice program at the Animal Legal Defense Fund, said in an email.
«The Animal Legal Defense Fund strongly believes that the law ought to recognize animals» ability to feel pain and suffer, as well as their interest in living their lives without fear and distress,» Dunn said.
Although the AKC condemns animal abuse, Goffe said the traditional legal treatment of animals as personal property of their owners must be protected.
As a result, the law provides greater legal protection to those animals then say, animals raised for food, fur, entertainment or research.
«We believe that... Connecticut was already capable of fairly adjudicating animal cruelty and other animal issues without, in a larger sense, potentially jeopardizing the current legal status of animals and without, on the smaller level, involving outside organizations and interests to influence the adjudication of individual cases,» Goffe said.
Dr. Kenneth Mitchell, a member of the Florida Animal Control Association and director of animal services for Pinellas County, said several legal battles over biting dogs have lasted for years, including the case of a golden retriever held for three years in West Palm Animal Control Association and director of animal services for Pinellas County, said several legal battles over biting dogs have lasted for years, including the case of a golden retriever held for three years in West Palm animal services for Pinellas County, said several legal battles over biting dogs have lasted for years, including the case of a golden retriever held for three years in West Palm Beach.
«Protective orders are crucial for removing both human and animal victims from the cycle of domestic violence, because human victims are often afraid to leave their pets behind,» says Stephen Wells, Executive Director of the Animal Legal Defenseanimal victims from the cycle of domestic violence, because human victims are often afraid to leave their pets behind,» says Stephen Wells, Executive Director of the Animal Legal DefenseAnimal Legal Defense Fund.
The SPCA has issued orders to operators and failure to comply could lead to legal action under the provincial Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, she said.
Legal questions prompted the county agency last week to decide to provide only backup help to police in cities with conflicting animal control ordinances, said animal control director Don Westfall and other county officials.
It went into effect immediately as Mayor Don Plusquellic signed it following the meeting... City officials say this version should withstand legal scrutiny if a group of cat fanciers — Citizens for Humane Animal Practices, or CHAP — makes good on its threat of a lawsuit.»
«All domestic animals are considered property in the U.S., which means they have the same legal status as a couch or a toaster,» says David Grimm, a science journalist and recent author of «Citizen Canine: Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs.»
Illinois is now the most humane state in the U.S., according to the Animal Legal Defense Fund, an organization that fights to protect animals through the legal system, but she says the state wasn't so pet - friendly when she first kicked off her lobbying effLegal Defense Fund, an organization that fights to protect animals through the legal system, but she says the state wasn't so pet - friendly when she first kicked off her lobbying efflegal system, but she says the state wasn't so pet - friendly when she first kicked off her lobbying efforts.
The Animal Foundation says it didn't amputate the leg right away because the condition wasn't immediately life - threatening and the shelter knew that Dolly would be going under the care of A Home 4 Spot after the three - day legal hold period ended.
Martin had initially claimed she lacked legal grounds to charge anyone in the puppy's case, but the DA's office said a follow - up investigation by state police found Stoltzfus openly admitted he failed to obtain veterinary care for the animal as required by law.
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SeaWorld's lawyers say the case crosses the boundaries of «legitimate constitutional debate» and is «utterly lacking in legal merit» because the 13th Amendment specifically refers to «persons,» not animals.
(KGET.com, County official says Kern woman has an illegal animal shelter)(via Legal Juice)
SPCA lawyer says petition to recognize animals as «not things» in Quebec Civil Code could change legal status «in various ways», Chronicle Herald
«It's a very extraordinary animal in legal culture to have two different proceedings addressing the same question that lead to different results,» Chief Justice John Roberts said Monday during oral arguments in Cuozzo Speed Technologies v. Lee.
Richard Posner said the following in the Yale Law Journal of his review of «Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals,» by Steven Wise, counsel in the recent New York case,
None of this, however, says we shouldn't campaign for the release of captive animals; just that we shouldn't do so on the basis of their having legal rights.