Some Preliminary Steps Toward Regulating Nonpoint Source Pollution

David Cassuto At long last, EPA is taking steps (or beginning to take them) toward addressing nonpoint source pollution of the nation’s waters.  Nonpoint sources are pretty much all those pollution sources that cannot be traced to the end of a pipe.  The Clean Water Act is far less concerned with nonpoint sources than with [...]

Powerful Final Day at the Second World Conference on Bioethics and Animal Rights

Elizabeth Bennett The last day of the Second World Conference on Bioethics and Animal Rights began with a heartfelt lecture by conference organizer Heron Santana on climate change and animal rights. Professor Santana spoke about the fact that citizens of Brazil are beginning to eat more meat and the country exports an increasing amount of [...]

Fresh Faced Student at Animal Law Conference in Brazil

Gloribelle Perez Wednesday night (8.25.10), I had the honor of attending the opening reception of the Second World Conference on Bioethics and Animal Rights, which was held in the first capital of Brazil—Salvador, Bahia.  From a live band to Bahia’s movers and shakers of the political arena, the opening reception was superb.  Professor Cassuto, a [...]

Live From the Second World Conference on Bioethics and Animal Rights in Brazil

Elizabeth Bennett DAY 1 Ola from the Second World Conference on Bioethics and Animal Rights.  First, I would like to say that I am very thankful that Pace Law School and the Center for Environmental Legal Studies provided me with the opportunity to attend this prestigious and world-renowned conference and for all of the conference [...]

The Nuge is a Poacher

David Cassuto Ted Nugent gets a real charge out of senseless violence against animals.  This is not news.  One need only tune in to his TV show to learn about his love of killing.  What is news is that Nugent broke the law while filming said show.  He killed underage deer using bait, both of [...]

ABA-TIPS Animal Law Committee

David Cassuto I leave for Brazil anon but did not want to depart without a plug for the ABA-TIPS Animal Law Committee. It has done and continues to do an enormous amount to raise the profile and credibility of animal law within the larger legal community.  If you are a lawyer or law student, you [...]

Captive Animals, Dead People, Bad Reporting

David Cassuto How many times have we heard the story of a captive wild animal killing someone?  This would be just another replay of the same sad and avoidable story except for a few details.  In this instance, which took place outside Cleveland, the guy who kept the unfortunate bear was not the person killed.  [...]

International Animal Law — A Website

David Cassuto Here (with a hat tip to the Animal Law Blog) is an interesting and useful site focusing on International Animal Law.

Help Wanted: HSUS Animal Law Litigator

David Cassuto Hey you litigators, here’s a good looking  job: JOB OPPORTUNITY The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) seeks an attorney with at least one year of relevant legal experience for a Staff Attorney position within the Animal Protection Litigation Section in our Washington, DC office. The Animal Protection Litigation Section at The [...]

Brazil Anew– The Animal Law Tour

David Cassuto Our hero heads back to Brazil next week.  First I’ll speak at the International Animal Law Conference in Salvador.   The conference also features a student forum where, I’m delighted to report, Pace 3L, Elizabeth Bennett, will present a paper on factory farming.         

Research Hunts & Conservation Hunts: New Ways to Fetishize Wolf Slaughter

David Cassuto Not too long ago, I blogged about the duplicity of Japan’s “research” hunting of whales.  The practice is little more than a disingenuous attempt to circumvent the global ban on whale killing by pretending the slaughter has some scientific purpose.  I called on the rest of the world to repudiate such tactics and [...]

Cassuto: The Podcast

The Self-Promotion Desk is back on the job.  Our hero is featured on this week’s podcast from the wonderful folks over at Our Hen House!   We discuss all kinds of cool stuff — from Brazil to the friction between enviro and animal advocates, to teaching animal law.   Get it, download, it, tell all [...]

Celebrities, Chimps, Vivisection — The Back From Vacation Blog Post

David Cassuto Well, I’m back from vacation and I have a few things to report.  First, one of my favorite places: “Milsurp’s Surplus and More” has closed.  I have no idea what they sold there, never having ventured in.  Still, just knowing there was a place that was able to differentiate between surplus and more [...]

One Million Pounds of Cow Flesh Recalled

David Cassuto That’s 2,300 cows.  Killed for absolutely nothing.  Well, not nothing — to get blamed for making people sick.  I wonder if anyone would have gotten sick if no one had pumped them full of antibiotics and corn and then killed them. Full story here.

A New & Welcome Chapter in the Wolf Saga

David Cassuto I’ve blogged a fair bit about the ill-advised delisting of gray wolves as endangered species in the northern Rockies, as well as about the lawsuit that followed.  When last we left the story, the district court had denied a preliminary injunction that would have stopped the wolf hunts that subsequently took place in [...]

EPA Region 2 — Taking It To the CAFOs

David Cassuto The news release speaks for itself: Region 2 Issues a Class II Administrative Complaint to a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation for Illegal Discharges and Numerous Permit Violations On July 15, 2010, Region 2 issued an Administrative Complaint against Wilkins Dairy Farm, LLC (“Respondent”) for several violations of the Clean Water Act and the [...]

A Little More Veg Rhetoric

David Cassuto I have resolved that when I see a particularly well-argued piece for either side, I will flag it.  So here‘s Bruce Friedrich making the argument against meat.

New Book: THE ANIMAL, WITHIN THE SPHERE OF HUMANS’ NEEDS

David Cassuto Cool new book (including a piece by our hero) coming out of the cool international animal law conference held in Montreal last year. THE ANIMAL, WITHIN THE SPHERE OF HUMANS’ NEEDS edited by Martine Lachance, International Research Group in Animal Law (GRIDA) More than one year after the Montreal’s first international animal law conference, it is with great [...]

Torturing Beagles (Because They’re Nice Dogs)

David Cassuto I’ve been bothered by this article in U.S.A. Today since I read it.  The article, which talks about the rescue and subsequent adoption of some 120 beagles who were vivisected, has the typical feel-good, happy-ending narrative one often sees in articles of this type.  And don’t get me wrong; I’m delighted that the [...]