First Amendment Claim in Cockfight Suit
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A company that broadcasts cockfights on the Internet filed suit in federal court in Miami to challenge a federal law that makes it a crime to sell depictions of animal cruelty.
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With cockfighting now banned in Oklahoma, one legislator is proposing a blood-free alternative: fitting roosters with little boxing gloves and letting them slug it out.
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MIAMI -- One evening last week, two roosters in a ring surrounded by cheering spectators pecked and clawed one another in a fight to the death. With each lunge, feathers flew, then floated to the ground. Finally, one bloodied bird, its eyes plucked out, lurched and faltered.
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Pro-hunt campaigners are preparing a legal challenge to the Parliament Act, which was used to force through a ban on hunting with dogs.
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RSPB neuters forum Bird botherers down at RSPB forums are in a flap over the avian conservation charity's censoring of the word "cock".â¦
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Politicians lash out at company. First round of witnesses exercise their Fifth Amendment rights and refuse to answer questions.
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com. Fox has survived one lawsuit over its boxing reality series &quot;The Next Great Champ.&quot; Now the show&#39;s producers are being hauled back into court.
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The Supreme Court ruling, however, may not be the last word on the issue of spectator conduct.
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The conservation group, Humane Society International (HIS), filed an application at the Australian Federal Court on Tuesday seeking a restraining order against the company involved.
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The Utah Animal Rights Coalition has filed a federal lawsuit against South Jordan and the managers of Salt Lake County's Equestrian Park and Events Center for removing a group of animal rights activists who were protesting a local circus performance.
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Supporters are beginning their High Court challenge to the ban on hunting with dogs in England and Wales.
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Blog: Sen. John Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, said in a press release on Friday that he wants to make it "illegal to transmit images of dog fighting, to run websites that cater to dog fighting." Thanks for your strong support of the First Amendment, senator.
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Bill O'Reilly is holding his tongue these days, thanks to a   certain lawsuit factor.
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French animal lovers said they had filed a lawsuit after a publishing company issued a hunter's year book extolling the virtues of &quot;hedgehog stew.&quot;
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Renewed furor over 'Choose Life' taglines on license plates is again raising First Amendment concerns.
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The government is violating the First Amendment by embarking on a "radical reinterpretation and expansion" of its power to punish broadcasters for indecent speech, a federal court was told Wednesday by Fox Television Stations Inc.
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The eviction of a newspaper reporter from a baseball press box for blogging about a game while it was in progress has stirred a debate about First Amendment and intellectual property rights.