Category: Law

Knoller & Noel convicted as murder-by-dog cases become trend

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2002:

LOS ANGELES–Convicted of second degree murder on March 21,
2002, for the dog mauling death of her former neighbor Diane
Whipple, San Francisco attorney Marjorie Knoller immediately
declared her intent to appeal. Knoller, 46, was also convicted of
manslaughter, along with her husband and fellow attorney Robert
Noel, 60. Both Knoller and Noel were additionally found guilty of
keeping a dangerous animal.
Sentencing was set for May 10. Knoller could draw 15 years
to life in prison; Noel could get four years.

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Korea to crack down on Moran Market during World Cup

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2002:

SEOUL, South Korea– Trying to reduce visitor awareness of
dog-and-cat-eating during the 2002 World Cup soccer tournament,
starting in May, the government of South Korea on February 19 asked
the 22 dog meat vendors who sell at the Moran Market in Sungnam City
for “a voluntary discontinuation of all illegal sales and practices.”

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Hindus, Sikhs, veggies settle suit vs. McDonald’s

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2002:

SEATTLE, AHMEDABAD– With smoke still rising from the ruins
of Muslim neighborhoods in Ahmedabad, India, neither the McDonald’s
Corporation nor Seattle attorney Harish Bharti and his 12 Hindu,
Sikh, and vegetarian clients wanted any more trouble.
As Ahmedabad cremated the remains of 56 Hindus killed when
Muslim militants torched a train on March 1, and buried the remains
of more than 400 Muslims killed the next day in retaliatory attacks
by Hindu mobs, McDonald’s agreed to pay $6 million to vegetarian
groups, yet to be named, and $4 million to charities serving
Hindus, Sikhs, children’s nutritional needs, and kosher dietary
teachings.

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Activist court calendar

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2002:

Sealer walks

ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland–A three-judge Newfoundland Court
of Appeal panel on March 12 overturned the conviction of sealer Jason
Penny for allowing a wounded seal to suffer unnecessarily long from a
bullet wound in early 1996, by ruling that the prosecution failed to
submit adequate evidence establishing that the video used to convict
him had not been “altered or changed” by the International Fund for
Animal Welfare before it was turned over to the Crown.

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Felony convictions and six-figure fines as courts say, “Cut the crap.”

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2002–

SACRAMENTO, California–Masami Cattle Ranch owner Masami
Ishida, 70, of Corning, California, was fined $1 million on
March 20, 2002 and was sentenced to serve six months in home
detention for allegedly polluting tributaries of the Sacramento River
with manure from the ranch and a slaughterhouse.

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Farm Bill amended to remove lab rats, mice, & birds from Animal Welfare Act protection

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2002:

WASHINGTON, D.C.–All rats, mice, and birds bred for
laboratory use would be permanently excluded from federal Animal
Welfare Act protection under a last-minute amendment to the 2002 Farm
Bill, approved by the U.S. Senate by voice vote late on February 12
and sent to a joint Senate/House conference committee for final
reconciliation on February 13.
The amendment would affect more than 95% of all warm-blooded
animals used in U.S. laboratories.

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Scots ban hunting with dogs

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2002:

EDINBURGH, Scotland–After six-and-a-half hours of debate,
including votes on 107 proposed amendments, the Scottish Parliament
on February 13 gave final approval to the Protection of Wild Mammals
Act, which seeks to ban hunting with dogs, 83-36 with five
abstentions.
“There will not be another [pack] hunting season in
Scotland,” exulted Tricia Marwick, a co-sponsor of the Act. “This
is a momentous day for the Parliament.”
Agreed Les Ward, chair of the Scottish Campaign Against
Hunting With Dogs, “It is a historic day. Scotland has led the way.
It will send a signal to the world that Scotland is a civilised and
modern country.”

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Animal advocacy meets The War on Terror

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2002:

SALT LAKE CITY–Utah County coyotes got a break from
terrorism during the Winter Olympic Games held in and around Salt
Lake City.
“Because of the no-fly restriction in effect withn 45 miles
of the Games from midnight on February 7 through midnight on February
24, USDA Wildlife Services could not conduct aerial coyote control,”
Deseret News staff writer Sharon Hadlock reported.
Those weeks are usually peak coyote-strafing time for
Wildlife Services, as snow makes their tracks visible to helicopter
gunners.

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Dog & cat licensing compliance, costs, and effects

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2002:

Regulations of any kind seldom succeed unless a large
majority of the people or institutions to be regulated are already
voluntarily in compliance or willing to become compliant with
relatively little nudging at the time that the regulations start to
be enforced. If more than a small percentage object to a regulation
enough to become scofflaws, the enforcement burden becomes
overwhelming, and the regulation eventually tends to be ignored or
repealed.

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