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January 12, 2024 In Resource Materials

Appellate Opinion (Iowa Ag-Gag III)

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January 12, 2024 In Resource Materials

Appellate Opinion (Iowa Ag-Gag II)

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Read More Case: Iowa Ag-Gag II (ALDF v. Reynolds)

November 9, 2023 In Resource Materials

Respondents’ Opposition to Petition for Writ of Certiorari (NC Ag-Gag)

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The News & Observer: Supreme Court won’t step in to save NC law that punished secret recordings

SCOTUS upheld a legal victory for advocates who argued a 2015 NC law aimed to punish undercover recording at farms and other businesses restricted whistleblowing....

October 16, 2023 In News

Supreme Court leaves in place court victory for PETA over North Carolina ag-gag law

The Supreme Court has rejected North Carolina’s appeal in a dispute with animal rights groups over a law aimed at preventing undercover employees at farms and other workplaces from taking documents or recording video...

February 23, 2023 In Resource Materials

Opinion (NC Ag-gag)

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Opinion (Iowa Ag-gag III)

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September 27, 2022 In Press Release

Court Strikes Down Iowa Recording Ban Ag-Gag Law

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa ruled Iowa’s latest Ag-Gag law is unconstitutional, holding that the law — which created a new crime of trespassing to engage in video and audio recording — violates the First Amendment. The law gagged free...

November 22, 2021 In Press Release

After Sponsoring Arkansas’s Ag-Gag Law, Rep. DeAnn Vaught Refuses to Defend its Constitutionality

The Arkansas state representative and factory farm owner who sponsored the state’s Ag-Gag law stated in a court filing on Friday that she waives her right and the right of her industrial hog farm, Prayer Creek Farm, to ever bring a legal action under that...

November 18, 2021 In Resource Materials

Memorandum Opinion and Order (NC Ag-gag)

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