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A Return To Descartes: Property, Profit, And The Corporate Ownership Of Animals, Darian M. Ibrahim Jan 2007

A Return To Descartes: Property, Profit, And The Corporate Ownership Of Animals, Darian M. Ibrahim

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Disability And The Social Contract, Anita Silvers, Michael Ashley Stein Jan 2007

Disability And The Social Contract, Anita Silvers, Michael Ashley Stein

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The Anticruelty Statute: A Study In Animal Welfare, Darian M. Ibrahim Jan 2006

The Anticruelty Statute: A Study In Animal Welfare, Darian M. Ibrahim

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Reduce, Refine, Replace: The Failure Of The Three R’S And The Future Of Animal Experimentation, Darian M. Ibrahim Jan 2006

Reduce, Refine, Replace: The Failure Of The Three R’S And The Future Of Animal Experimentation, Darian M. Ibrahim

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Two Degrees Of Speech Protection: Free Speech Through The Prism Of Agricultural Disparagement Laws, Howard M. Wasserman Jan 2000

Two Degrees Of Speech Protection: Free Speech Through The Prism Of Agricultural Disparagement Laws, Howard M. Wasserman

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In the wake of a 1989 national television broadcast reporting the alleged cancer risk of a chemical applied to apples on trees, many states passed agricultural product disparagement (APD) statutes. These statutes grant civil causes of action to the growers and sellers of perishable food products, against anyone who speaks negatively or disparagingly, without basis in scientific evidence, about the product's safety. In this Article, Howard M Wasserman explores the interplay between the APD statutes and the First Amendment. First, Mr. Wasserman discusses the three categories of restrictions on the freedom of speech, focusing primarily on private civil tort actions …


Federal Protection Of Unique Environmental Interests: Endangered And Threatened Species, Ronald H. Rosenberg Jan 1980

Federal Protection Of Unique Environmental Interests: Endangered And Threatened Species, Ronald H. Rosenberg

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Endangered species protection has long been favored by many Americans, who watched regretfully as the numbers of American eagles, buffaloes and other species dwindled toward extinction. Only recently, however, has species protection become a matter of public controversy, subsumed in the more general "development v. environment" debate. In this Article, Professor Rosenberg surveys the federal government's role in species protection, with a special focus on the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Prompted by the much-publicized Supreme Court decision in the "snail darter case"--TVA v. Hill-Congress extensively amended the Act in 1978. After a detailed analysis of these amendments, Professor Rosenberg …