Source: FOOD SAFETY NEWS, 5/16/17


The question of whether otherwise illegal acts — like lying on an employment application —  are Constitutionally protected if they prevent enterprising reporters or animal activists from being successful is now framed before a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals meeting in Seattle. The 9h Circuit panel of Judges  — M. Margaret McKeown, Richard Tallman, and Carlos Bea — heard oral arguments in Seattle in the appeal of Idaho’s protection statute for animal agriculture that was struck down in 2015 for being unconstitutional by U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill.

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