Animal-Rights Fight Over Anti-Terror Law Begins

May 10, 2016
Courthouse News Service

 Animal-rights activists asked the Seventh Circuit to deem the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act unconstitutional for designating nonviolent property damage "terrorism," because two men charged under the law intended only to save animals' lives. 
     Californians Tyler Lang and Kevin Johnson freed 2,000 minks and foxes, and left the words "Liberation in Love" spray-painted on a barn of a fur factory in Morris, Ill., roughly 60 miles from Chicago, on Aug. 14, 2013. ...

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May 10, 2016