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Somewhat overshadowed by Chevron's spectacular crash and burn last week was the Supreme Court's decision the day before in SEC v. Jarkesy, No. 22-859 (U.S. June 27, 2024), holding that [...]

Animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) recently posted the 'news' that it had 'newly obtained public records' showing that certain research universities had euthanized laboratory [...]

On March 23, 2023, royal assent was given to a statute passed by the British Parliament entitled the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023. The new law aims to facilitate [...]

On February 17, 2023, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a preliminary injunction that had restrained the University of Washington from releasing records [...]

On February 8, 2023, the Texas Fourth Court of Appeals affirmed a judgment dismissing a lawsuit that animal rights group, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), and a [...]

Annually, animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) condemns Groundhog Day. This year, PETA called the exhibition of Punxsutawney Phil 'a cruel form of speciesism, a [...]

In 2020, Congress passed, and President Trump signed, the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (HISA) which empowers a private entity - the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (Authority) - to [...]

'Greenwashing,' a topic of frequent discussion, actually has dictionary definition. According to Merriam-Webster, greenwashing is 'the act or practice of making a product, policy, activity, etc., appear to be more [...]

A federal court in Washington, D.C. recently tossed a lawsuit brought by the animal rights group, Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) challenging poultry products labels that had been approved by [...]

Animal rights activists have pointed to a recent decision by the highest court in Ecuador - the Constitutional Court (Corte Constitucional Del Ecuador) - as a breakthrough for animal rights. [...]

In the past several days, the internet has been aflutter with reports that a U.S. court had declared infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar's hippopotamuses to be 'people.' Some examples: 'US [...]

To paraphrase Forrest Gump's mother, congressional spending measures are 'like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.' This is no less true with respect the recent [...]

Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld, in part, the constitutionality of an Iowa law that makes it a criminal offense to obtain access to an [...]

In the upcoming November 2021 election, voters in Maine will be presented with an amendment to the state constitution that would establish a right to food. The measure was approved [...]

Today, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture issued advance notice that, on June 25, 2021, the agency will publish notice in the [...]

On June 21, 2021, the Supreme Court of Colorado issued a decision reversing the actions of the Colorado Title Board that had approved the wording of a controversial ballot initiative [...]

On June 4, 2021, the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a putative state law consumer class action claiming that chicken products marketed [...]

Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit brought under the California Unfair Competition Law by Friends of Animals and two other [...]

On Wednesday morning, during Google's annual meeting, a shareholder named John M. Simpson stood up to question the company's top executives about its self-driving car program. They were not friendly [...]