On November 27, 2007 Baltimore's Mayor Sheila Dixon signed into law changes to the city's animal control ordinances. In passing these changes, a copy of w ...

Article - lauraallen - 10 Dec 2007 - 4:39pm - 3 comments - 1 attachment

                                           by Laura Allen for the Animal Law Coalition This is not really my story to tell. I came late to the effort to save Lucy's life. An effort that ultimatel ...

Article - lauraallen - 9 Sep 2008 - 6:44pm - 11 comments - 0 attachments

Read the facts about factory farming and watch the video at the end of this article!  Update Nov. 6, 2008: 6.2 million California voters agreed Proposition 2, the California Prevention of Farm Cruelty Act, should become law. T ...

Article - lauraallen - 20 Nov 2008 - 5:55pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

                                           Update March 10, 2008:   Los Angeles County and the other defendants filed a motion to dismiss, claiming private citizens such as the plaintiffs don't have sta ...

Article - lauraallen - 9 Sep 2008 - 6:45pm - 5 comments - 0 attachments

Update October 10, 2008:  The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week in the Navy's appeal of a preliminary injunction issued to require mitigation measures during its use of mid-frequency active sonar during training exercises off the S ...

Article - lauraallen - 10 Oct 2008 - 7:24pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

                                        More than 30 county and city shelters in N.C. continue to use gas chambers to kill animals. Some shelters workers have been known to beat animals in the head, drown the ...

Article - lauraallen - 28 Mar 2008 - 4:43pm - 28 comments - 0 attachments

There is a small, grass-roots campaign happening to stop the use of the gas chamber in Spalding County, Georgia. Please write a letter to each of the five commissioners as well as to the county manager. (These folks do not have email . Letters must ...

Article - lauraallen - 14 Dec 2007 - 7:14pm - 4 comments - 1 attachment

Update December 14, 2007 late afternoon: A Blair County, Pennsylvania jury has found Tammy Grimes guilty of theft and receiving stolen property. Sentencing is set for February 22, 2008. The judge instructed the jury they mu ...

Article - lauraallen - 12 Feb 2008 - 6:24pm - 54 comments - 0 attachments

Update : This provision did pass in the final version of the farm bill vetoed by President George W. Bush. Congress overrode the veto.  Original report : As part of the 2007 Farm bill and as an amendment to the Animal Welfare Act, ...

Article - lauraallen - 26 Aug 2008 - 7:13pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

                                     Up date: The Farm Bill initially passed by Congress included this anti-animal fighting bill. President George W. Bush vetoed the Bill, but both the House and Senat ...

Article - lauraallen - 21 Jul 2008 - 7:05pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

    If you want to help the continually chained dogs of Pennsylvania, here is your chance. ONE DAY OFF FROM WORK COULD MEAN A LIFETIME TO A DOG .                                               ...

Article - lauraallen - 18 May 2008 - 7:46pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments

                                        Update February 25, 2008: Supporters hope to be able to save H.B. 366 by arranging meetings between committee members considering the bill and people who li ...

Article - lauraallen - 9 Jun 2008 - 5:53pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments

The Feral Cat Spay/Neuter Project has altered over 30,000 cats in the Puget Sound area of Washington state.  The local public television station, KCTS, has run a program featuring the work on this group.  In conjunction with the program, KC ...

Article - lauraallen - 9 Jan 2008 - 12:02am - 6 comments - 0 attachments

                                           In March, 2007 Chesley Morton and Jennifer Robinson filed suit in Fulton County, Georgia Superior Court, claiming the state Department of Agriculture and its Commis ...

Article - lauraallen - 14 Dec 2007 - 5:17pm - 4 comments - 0 attachments

 By John Holland (reprinted with permission) Bring in your children and potted plants and barricade your  door...they're coming! No, it is not Al Qaeda or even the Iranian  Revolutionary Guard. The abandoned horses are coming and the des ...

Article - lauraallen - 18 Jan 2008 - 3:29pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments

 Update May 10, 2008 Governor Sonny Perdue has now signed this bill into law. Update March 28, 2008: The Georgia House  voted overwhelmingly to accept the Senate substitute described in our earlier report below. The Georgia Senate then pas ...

Article - lauraallen - 18 May 2008 - 7:35pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

On September 11, 2006, I rescued a dog that was dying at the end of a chain in a muddy yard in a small Pennsylvania town. I was subsequently arrested. A little over a year later, on December 15, 2007, I was convicted of theft and receiving stolen ...

Article - lauraallen - 21 Dec 2007 - 4:52am - 2 comments - 0 attachments

On August 1, 2007 the Ohio Supreme Court found Ohio and Toledo breed specific laws are constitutional. Both the state of Ohio and Toledo laws say pit bull type dogs are automatically deemed "vicious" dogs and subject to certain restricti ...

Article - lauraallen - 12 Feb 2008 - 1:12am - 2 comments - 0 attachments

Washington University in St. Louis has announced its medical school will no longer use live pigs in a student lab. With the Medical College of New York's decision to end the use of live dogs in its first year physiology course ( Click here ...

Article - lauraallen - 9 Jan 2008 - 12:05am - 2 comments - 0 attachments

State: Ohio Bill Number: H.B.366   As Introduced 127th General Assembly Regular Session 2007-2008 H. B. No. ...

Pending Bill - lauraallen - 20 Feb 2008 - 9:08pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

                                 The St. Louis City Board of Aldermen has adopted restrictions on the tethering of dogs!  Mayor Francis Slay is expected to sign the bill. Under the new law no dog or cat can be tet ...

Article - lauraallen - 22 Dec 2007 - 5:24pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments

       As part of the Farm bill, the U.S. House of Representatives has approved two portions of the Animal Welfare Accountability Act, H.R. 2193. Quite an impressive name that doesn't tell you much about the bill. One part of this ...

Article - lauraallen - 12 Dec 2007 - 9:11pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Earlier this year the U.S. House of Representatives voted 277-137 to pass H.R. 249 to restore protections for wild horses and burros under the Wild Free Roaming Horses and Burros Act. Basically, the bill saves wild horses and burros from slaughter. ...

Article - lauraallen - 28 Jan 2008 - 5:38pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Update January 18, 2007 :  Despite a finding by the Senate in the Farm bill that more study is needed, the Food and Drug Administration decided this week to allow production and marketing of food from cloned animals except sheep. The FDA ex ...

Article - lauraallen - 18 Jan 2008 - 10:08pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Article © 2007 (reprinted with permission) This document was originally produced by the AVMA (American Veterinary Medical Association) to explain its position in opposition to the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act. The paragraphs precede ...

Article - lauraallen - 18 Jan 2008 - 3:34pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

By Libby Cluett for the Mineral Wells Index (r eprinted with permission)  From Spaniards to Apache horsemen; from pioneers to the Pony Express riders, horses helped America's inhabitants traverse its vast terrain. To many human ...

Article - lauraallen - 18 Jan 2008 - 3:33pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Take the poll on whether animal cruelty should be a misdemeanor or felony. And, read the current results.   POLL : Animal cruelty should be : o A felony. o A misdemeanor. o Other            ...

Article - lauraallen - 9 Jan 2008 - 12:01am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

                                                Michigan has changed its scheme for punishing animal cruelty and neglect.  In bills that have now been signed into law by Governor Jennifer Granholm ...

Article - lauraallen - 8 Jan 2008 - 11:59pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Update : New York City Council member Tony Avella did introduce an ordinance to ban horse drawn carriages in the city.  A copy is in Animal Law Coalition's Pending Bills. Find and contact city council members at the end of this article and writ ...

Article - lauraallen - 30 Dec 2007 - 8:12pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

State: New York City: New York City Bill Number: Intro 658 Int. No. 658 By Council Member Avella ..Title A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to repealing ...

Pending Bill - lauraallen - 30 Dec 2007 - 8:02pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments