Animal welfare
By: Sylvia Engdahl, book editor
Series: Issues on trial; Issues on trial
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farmington Hills, MI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780737747379
Description: Examines how the courts have helped to shape the issue of animal welfare.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.185-189) and index.
Table of contents: title: Unanimous opinion : animal welfare advocates have the right to sue in the court of their choice / Thurgood Marshall; title: Animal welfare advocates lack standing to take animal mistreatment issues to court / Kenneth Starr; title: Courts should view animals as more than mere personal property / Lauren Magnotti; title: The research done on the Silver Spring monkeys led to an important discovery / Denyse O'Leary; title: The court's opinion : animals do not have standing to bring suit / William A. Fletcher; title: The Cetacean ruling opens the door to other suits by animals / John F. Tamburo; title: Congrss does not have authority to give animals the right to sue / Matthew Armstrong; title: Cetacean exemplifies the difficulty of suing for harm to nature / W. Earl Webster; title: Human plaintifs can act as proxies for animals in lawsuits / Harvard Law Review; title: The court's opinion : anticruelty regulations cannot exempt agricultural practices on grounds that they are routine / Helen Hoens; title: Many agricultural practices are cruel to animals and should be banned / Erin M. Tobin and Katherine A. Meyer; title: Support for humane treatment of farm animals is growing / Kim Severson; title: Farmers and veterinarians believe current farm practices are humane / Neil D. Hamilton; title: Majority opinion : the need to conduct naval training exercises outweighs protection of marine mammals / John Roberts; title: Dissenting opinion : defense considerations do not authorize the Navy to violate the law / Ruth Bader Ginsburg; title: The court seemed closely divided in Winter v. NRDC / Scott Dodd; title: Environmental laws should not be allowed to thwart defense preparedness / David Stirling; title: The U.S. legal system is ill equipped to protect the natural world / Mary Munson; title: Winter could alter the balance between environmental concerns and the national defense / Jeremy Rabkin