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Cases* Animal
Activist Defense Cases
Valent v. SHAC USA Stop Huntington
Animal Cruelty (SHAC USA) is an organization whose mission is to end
animal torture and cruelty in Huntington Life Sciences, a corporation
that practices vivisection, the dissection of living animals, and kills
500 animals each day. Valent USA Corp., a client of Huntington Life
Sciences, also tests on animals for "crop protection and plant
enhancement products." Valent is suing animal activists for various
reasons, but primarily, harassment of these animal testers. The law
firms of Laturno & Graves and Alborg, Veiluva & Epstein represent
Valent USA Corp. People v. Kuba Marine World has had Mr. Kuba arrested for passing out educational leaflets in front of Marine World. The educational leaflets inform people on deaths of animals that have been infected within Marine World captivity and the impact that stress and unfit living conditions has on the animals. Joseph Camarata, Deputy District Attorney of Solano County is prosecuting Alfredo Kuba. Animal
Activist Plaintiff Cases
Bolbol v. Ringling Brothers Several
animal rights advocates were arrested for passing out educational literature
in front of the Animal Open House at the Ringling Brothers Circus. The
literature informed the circus attendants of the cruelty that Ringling
Brothers condones while their employees abuse the animals with bull
hooks and poor living conditions. The literature also educated Ringling
Brothers attendees of the Animal Welfare Act violations that the circus
has been cited for. Kuba v. Marine World Several
animal rights advocates were arrested for passing out educational literature
in front of the Marine World on public forum grounds. The educational
leaflets inform people on deaths of animals that have been infected
within Marine World captivity and the impact that stress and unfit living
conditions has on the animals. Animal
Abuse/Death Plaintiff Cases
Dittmeier v. Mendocino County Animal Care and Control All of Ms. Dittmeier's animals were taken by the Mendocino County Animal Care and Control and subsequently euthanized, instead of put up for adoption, even though they were all healthy. Additionally, her goats were attacked and killed by "wild dogs" says Animal Care in Control, while they were in Animal Care and Control's custody. Sehnol v. StainSafe Guard Ms. Sehnol
was assured by Hansen's Furniture Store that the StainSafe Guard used
to protect her couch would not harm her parrot, Squigmund. The product
caused her Squigmund's death. Faucett v. PetCo The Vallejo PetCo Grooming center poisoned Ms. Faucett's cat Serena to death out of gross negligence and recklessness on a routine grooming visit. Mount v. Napa County Sheriffs The Napa County Sheriffs entered, pepper sprayed and shot the mother and father of a litter of puppies without provocation. Floyd, the male dog, survived the attack. Luciel, the mother of the puppies, was killed. Dixon v. Yolo County Sheriffs The Yolo County Sheriffs shot both a 6-month old puppy and a black Labrador retriever, Moe, several times stating that the dogs attacked. The puppy survived the wrongful discharges of a firearm, but Moe died after much suffering and many bullets Bailey v. Hairy Hound Groomers Hairy Hound allegedly "lost" a dog, Cubby, in less than one hour after being left in their care. Comedy v. Sacramento Police Dept. The Sacramento
Police entered Comedy's land without a warrant, and beat one of Comedy's
dogs, Mafi, without provocation. Mafi was found in a bloody room with
broken teeth. Rowe v. Lake County Animal Care and Control The Lake
County Animal Care and Control entered Rowe's land without a warrant,
took all of her cats and euthanized them in violation of the Hayden
bill. Williams v. Evangelho Mr. Evangelho
has violated San Francisco's Building Codes and scrapped lead paint
onto his neighbor's property and into the yard of two household companion
dogs, named Sugar and Ali. Ali was killed by the toxic scrapings and
Sugar recovered. DISCLAIMER: The captions above are summaries of the actual cases I currently have pending. The summaries consist of filed allegations. The summaries are not dispositive of any final judgment. The case descriptions are intended to be informative of Animal Law types of cases. These cases are not indicative of any case outcome or guarantee, and is not meant to imply a Judge's affirmation of the allegations made therein. *Currently, Ms. Garcia is not practicing law, nor taking on any new clients and cases until mid-March 2007. She is only taking on new animal rights video-editing projects and animal rights campaign work. |