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Case Summaries of Pending Judicial Proceedings


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.

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