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The Indiana State Bar Association is considering forming an animal law section. If you are at all interested, now is the time to speak up. Contact Maryann Williams at mwilliams@inbar.org for more info.
UT has just established a new SALDF chapter, according to the student newspaper, the Daily Beacon. Congrats and good luck!
I was at press conference this morning, to publicize one courageous Alderwoman’s efforts to pass an ordinance banning elephant cruelty. You might think this would be a non-issue in Chicago. (After all, where would you put an elephant in a city of 3 million people?) However, there ARE elephants in the windy city. Every year, Ringling Bros. Circus plays at the United Center (think Bulls and Hawks).
The ordinance - which seeks to prohibit the use of chains - has already been watered down to remove the prohibition on bullhooks. But in a city that just had to have its foie gras, if you ask me, even this milquetoast proposal is unlikely to go anywhere.
Why, you might ask. Why? Seriously? Well, ok, for the handful of readers who actually live under a rock and just come up to surf the internet… this is Chicago politics we’re talking about. All those stories, [...]
By Rex W. Huppke |Tribune reporter
2:05 PM CST, November 18, 2008
The Englewood basement was cramped, chaotic. Fifty people — parents, kids, a pregnant woman — huddled around a bloody 10-foot-by-10-foot ring, cheering two pit bulls trained to kill.
Barbaric to most, this medieval blood sport remains a routine source of shameless entertainment in large swaths of the city.
Read more in this follow-up feature to the recent Chicago dogfighting bust here…
The H.S.U.S., which was instrumental in yesterday’s big Chicago dog fight bust (see post below), is also upping the ante for animal fighting in another midwestern state. In Minnesota, tips that lead to convictions may receive as much as a $5,000 reward, up from $2,500. Read more in Mara Gottfried’s article in the Twin Cities’ Pioneer Press.
