Successful litigation campaigns often take years to wind their way through the court system. Here are some of our success stories.
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Californians for Humane Farms v. Schafer (Prop 2 Funding)
Agency documents reveal plans to misappropriate millions of federal funds to influence voter opinion on California farm animal welfare ballot initiative
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Cavel International, Inc. v. Madigan (Illinois horse slaughter)
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld the Illinois state law banning horse slaughter.
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Claddie Savage v. Steve Prator (Louisiana cockfighting)
In January 2006, the Louisiana Supreme Court upheld a Caddo Parish ordinance banning cockfighting, reversing two lower court decisions
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Defenders of Wildlife, et al. v. Hall, et al. (Rocky Mountain Wolf Delisting)
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service???s decision to delist the northern Rocky Mountain population of gray wolves
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Defenders of Wildlife, The HSUS v. Gutierrez, et al. (Right Whale Entanglement)
The HSUS filed suit to force NMFS to publish long overdue modifications to fishing gear regulations to protect endangered whales
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Defenders of Wildlife, The HSUS, et al. v. Gutierrez, et al. (Right whales II)
Despite promising the court during the first round of litigation that the agency would issue final rules by June 2007, the agency continues to refuse to act
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Defenders of Wildlife, The HSUS, et al. v. Gutierrez, et al. (Right whales)
The critically endangered North Atlantic right whale is the rarest of all large whale species. Even though federal agencies know the tiny population faces grave danger from ship strikes, they refused to enact emergency regulations to protect the whales
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Defenders of Wildlife, The HSUS, et al. v. Norton (Canada lynx)
The Fish and Wildlife Service has refused to protect imperiled Canada lynx under the Endangered Species Act.
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Earth Island Institute, The HSUS, et al. v. Evans, et al. ("Dolphin safe" tuna)
What does a "dolphin-safe" label really mean? The U.S. Commerce Department sought to weaken labeling requirements.
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Empacadora, et al. v. Curry (Texas horse slaughter)
The HSUS asked the federal Court of Appeals to uphold a Texas law prohibiting horse slaughter for human food...