Right now, the Center for Constitutional Rights and supporters are packing the court in Boston, MA, as Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol asks the First Circuit Court of Appeals to strike down the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) as a violation of the First Amendment. The AETA is a federal criminal law ushered through Congress in 2006 by powerful lobbyists for the fur, pharmaceutical, and meat industries. It criminalizes a broad swath of free speech activities and has cast a chill over the animal rights community. CCR filed the first civil challenge to AETA, Blum v. Holder, in support of five animal rights activists who have censored themselves and limited their lawful advocacy out of fear that their work could subject them to prosecution as terrorists.
Posted on: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 15:24:21 +0000
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