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US SC strikes down animal cruelty law [1]

JAMES VICINI

By an 8-1 vote, the court struck down the 1999 animal cruelty law for infringing on freespeech protections guaranteed by the First Amendment of the US Constitution The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a US law that makes it a crime to sell videos of animals being tortured or killed violated constitutional freespeech rights.

Publication Date: 
21/04/2010
Asian Age (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Animal Cruelty [3], United States Of America (US) [4]

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