US Supreme Court Asked To Ponder Drug Dog's Sniff
MIAMI — Franky the drug dog’s supersensitive nose is at the heart of a question being put to the U.S. Supreme Court: Does a police dog’s sniff outside a house give officers the right to get a search warrant for illegal drugs, or is the sniff an unconstitutional search? Florida’s highest state court has said […]
Oklahoma Supreme Court Overturns Pit Bull Ban
Score one for the Pit Bulls! Jerry Stuckey, of Midwest City, Oklahoma, had been fighting for years to save his family’s Bull Terriers. This week a state supreme court ruling ends the long legal battle. The dispute centered on a now defunct Midwest City ordinance that banned dogs with “pit” or “bull” in their names […]
Bill Passed By Congress To End "Crush Videos"
By Jim Abrams WASHINGTON – Videos appealing to a sexual fetish by showing women killing small animals will be banned under legislation that cleared the Senate Friday and is heading to President Barack Obama for his signature. The voice vote in the Senate followed a vote in the House on Monday to ban so-called crush […]
BREAKING NEWS: Supreme Court Strikes Down Animal Cruelty Law
Click to join our Facebook Fan Page and follow us on Twitter! From Reuters.com The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a U.S. law that makes it a crime to sell videos of animals being tortured or killed violated constitutional free-speech rights. By an 8-1 vote, the court struck down the 1999 animal cruelty law […]
Dog-Fighting Ring Doubles as a Day-Care Center
By Martha Rosenberg For AlterNet CHICAGO, IL — The dog-fighting ring in a Chicago suburb involved nobody famous; its greatest impact was likely on the children attending a day-care center next door. Not so big a story for the national media, even as it touches on a case currently before the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, another […]
Supreme Court Weighs Free Speech in Dog Fighting Video Case
Does anyone know Robert Stevens motives behind these videotapes? Is he a dog lover, working to protect pit bulls? Or is he cashing in on the public’s seemingly unending need for extreme videos? Please leave your thoughts in the comments section. — Kenn From FOXNews.com WASHINGTON — In its second day, the Supreme Court will […]