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Forget AgGag Laws: This Summer's Legal Fight Is Over the ...
Jul 10, 2014· When state legislators met to hash out new laws in the spring of 2013, farm protection or aggag bills were voted on across the Midwest and in agricultural states in the South and Southwest. The laws were designed to criminalize the work of animal rights activists and whistleblowers who secretly recorded abuse or other unlawful activity in confined animal feeding operations or other farms.
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Antiwhistleblower aggag bills hide factory farming ...
In the past, lawmakers backed by animal agribusiness have introduced aggag bills in dozens of states. The vast majority of these bills have been defeated by the Humane Society of the United States and other organizations seeking to protect consumers' right to know where their food comes from.
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Anatomy of Farm Protection Laws — Maryland Risk Management ...
Sep 29, 2014· Originally published in the Delmarva Farmer Sept. 22 nd edition.. The agriculture community calls them farm protection laws. Animal activists refer to them as "ag gag" laws. No matter what you call them, they are at the forefront of media headlines and courtrooms.
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Jan 26, 2018· In the meantime, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments yesterday in a challenge to North Carolina's aggag law mounted by a coalition of animalprotection, consumerrights ...
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BREAKING: Idaho #AgGag Law Struck Down as Unconstitutional
Aggag Intends to Silence Critical Speech. In additional to violating the First Amendment, by criminalizing newsgathering and distribution, aggag is also a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution "because it was motivated in substantial part by .
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Victory! PETA Wins Lawsuit Challenging Iowa's 'AgGag' Law ...
Jan 09, 2019· PETA's exposés have drastically changed the public conversation about the treatment of farmed animals—so much so that state legislatures have designed "aggag" bills to target PETA specifically. We brought this lawsuit because the Iowa "aggag" law is a blatant violation of free speech and freedom of the press.
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"Ag Gag" Litigation Update Texas Agriculture Law
Jan 21, 2019· **UPDATE: In February, 2019, Iowa announced it will appeal the trial court decision.** From a recent finding of unconstitutionality in Iowa, to an award of attorney's fees in Idaho, to a new legal challenge in Kansas, "ag gag" laws have continued to be in the news recently. Let's take a look back at recent legal decisions and where pending litigation currently stands.
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Idaho AgGag Law Struck Down Corporate Crime Reporter
In a landmark ruling issued today, an Idaho federal court struck down the state's controversial "aggag" statute on federal constitutional grounds, holding that it violates the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause. Idaho's aggag statute makes it a crime to conduct an undercover investigation at an Idaho agricultural facility.
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Iowa 'AgGag' Law Struck Down on Free Speech Grounds
Another state's "agricultural protection law" tossed; ... Animal rights advocates won their summary judgment motion on the constitutionality of Iowa's state "aggag" law, which aimed to bar activists from coming onto private property to investigate the mistreatment of animals.
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Federal Court Rules Wyoming "AGGag" Law Unconsititutional
Federal Court Rules Wyoming "AGGag" Law Unconsititutional ... "This is a victory for citizen science and for conservation groups who enforce environmental protection standards when agencies ...
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ACLU says Iowa's new ag gag law violates freespeech ...
Apr 22, 2019· Round 2: ACLU of Iowa says state's new aggag law violates free speech protections "The Ag Gag law aims to silence critics of worker rights .
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Free Speech Rights Doom Iowa's 'AgGag' Law Law360
Iowa had justified the socalled "aggag" law as a necessary protection against threats to property and biosecurity, but Senior District Judge James E. Gritzner said the state failed to prove ...
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What are Aggag laws and how would they affect ...
May 02, 2019· An "Aggag" law is the name given to legislation designed to curb the rise in animal activist monitoring and investigative activities within the livestock sector. Proposals to introduce such legislation first arose in the United States in the late 1990s.
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Statement of Opposition to "AgGag" Laws | ASPCA
Statement of Opposition to Proposed "AgGag" Laws from Broad Spectrum of Interest Groups. We, the undersigned group of civil liberties, public health, food safety, environmental, food justice, animal welfare, legal, workers' rights, journalism, and First Amendment organizations and individuals, hereby state our opposition to proposed whistleblower suppression laws, known as "aggag ...
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Animal Production, Aggag Laws, and the Social Production ...
In recent years, a number of socalled "farm protection" or "aggag laws" have been proposed and passed in state legislatures across the United States. These laws generally ban the undercover photographing or videotaping of industrial animal
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