The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals recently upheld the constitutionality of the Animal Crush Video Prohibition Act of 2010 in the case of United States v. Richards. A copy of the opinion is available here.
The 2010 Act bans videos that depict "obscene" acts of animal cruelty. The obscenity requirement was added to the 2010 Act after the U.S. Supreme Court held a prior version of the law to be overbroad and in violation of the First Amendment.
The ABA recently reported on the opinion here. Additional information is available here from the blog of the Animal Legal Defense Fund, which filed an amicus brief in the case.
Interested in other issues related to animal law? Consider Animal Law in a Nutshell, available in the Law Library's Study Aids collection on the main floor.
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