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Company News: Blog
03 September 2010
Like everybody else in the legal community I'm following with prurient interest the trials and tribulations of embattled associate chief justice of Manitoba, Lori Douglas, who was ousted by a disgruntled client of her husband's law firm. Nude photographs of her were posted, apparently without...
- 07 August 2010 It's a dog's life
- 12 July 2010 Governor General Designate with legal background
U.S. anti-cruelty to animals’ legislation declared unconstitutional |
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| Written by Christopher Green |
| Friday, 23 April 2010 00:00 |
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While the rest of the civilized world is riveted upon play-off hockey, Canada's national blood sport, where well-padded millionaires bludgeon each other, I've been occupying myself by reading recent constitutional law decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court (well, between periods, anyway). I was saddened to read, in the case of U.S. v Stevens, that the Crush Act, a piece of federal legislation enacted in 1999 to make illegal the making, selling or possession of materials depicting genuine acts of cruelty to animals, was struck down this week as being an unconstitutional limitation on the right of free speech. Although the ruling was probably quite correct legalistically, as an animal lover it turns my stomach to think that perverts are now free to traffic in videos of dog fights, boar-baiting and even animal snuff flicks. |



