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Suit Against Circus Owners Goes to Trial

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District Court in Washington, D.C. Tags: animal cruelty circus elephants. employee, claims the defendants inhumanely and illegally mistreat their Asian elephants and have done so for decades. The anticipated three-week, non-jury trial takes place in U.S.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

2): We disagree with your contention that the First Amendment protects animal “crush” videos. Stevens , the Supreme Court last year overturned a 1999 law banning depictions of animal cruelty on the grounds of overbreadth. Jon Kyl Jeff Merkley Richard Burr Washington, Aug. In United States v.