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The move will reflect changes brought in by the Animal Welfare (Sentencing) Act 2021 and are under consultation until August. Plans for tougher court sentencing guidance on animal cruelty cases ...
By Leah Douglas (Reuters) - A significant minority of members of the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday said they opposed a federal bill that would overturn a California animal welfare law ...
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The Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022 (c. 22) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was introduced to Parliament by the Government of the United Kingdom at the 2021 State Opening of Parliament. [1] The act recognises animal sentience in law for the first time.
United States v. Stevens, 559 U.S. 460 (2010), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, which ruled that 18 U.S.C. § 48, [1] a federal statute criminalizing the commercial production, sale, or possession of depictions of cruelty to animals, was an unconstitutional abridgment of the First Amendment right to freedom of speech.
[44] In January 2019, Hsiung gave a talk at Stanford University Law School titled "Changing the Law by Breaking It: a Conversation on Activism, Animal Welfare, and the Law with DxE Founder, Wayne Hsiung." [45] In December 2021, Hsiung was found guilty of two felonies, larceny and breaking and entering, in Transylvania County, North Carolina ...
The Supreme Court weighs whether a California animal welfare measure that bans the sale of pork when breeding pigs are housed in confined spaces impermissibly regulates farmers in other states.
In 2021, CBS News reported that the ad misled donors, who believed that their financial contributions supported local SPCAs and animal welfare charities. The CBS News investigation focused on "questions about whether the money is going where donors expect," reporting the ASPCA raised $2 billion for animal welfare between 2008 and 2019 and spent ...