Hindi jailed––against higher court order

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1996:

WOODSTOCK, Illinois– – As
ANIMAL PEOPLE went to press at dawn on
November 25, Chicago Animal Rights
Coalition founder Steve Hindi, 42, remained
in the McHenry County Jail, by order of circuit
judge James Franz, nearly four days after
the State of Illinois Appellate Court Second
District––a higher jurisdiction––ordered that
Hindi be released on bail pending appeal of a
November 6 contempt of court conviction.
Hindi was in the eleventh day of a
hunger strike, commenced, he told ANIMAL
PEOPLE, “because I have to fight this somehow,
and it’s the only thing I can do.”
Stated the Appellate order: “Motion
by appellant, Steven Hindi, for emergency
stay of the trial court’s order of contempt of
November 6, 1996, and to set an appeal
bond…is allowed, and this cause is remanded
to the trial court for the limited purpose of
establishing an appropriate appeal bond. This
court retains jurisdiction over this appeal.”

How animals won in five states

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1996:

WASHINGTON D.C.––Captive-duck shooter Bill
Clinton and trophy hunting advocate Albert Gore remain in the
White House, but Congressional script on animal issues may be
quite a bit different in the 105th Congress, not only because
foes of the Endangered Species Act took a beating on November
5, but also because the results of five state initiative campaigns
show animal protection voting clout, just beginning to be organized,
ignored by the Democrats, reviled by wise-use
Republicans, but acknowledged by Speaker of the House Newt
Gingrich.
• Massachusetts voted 64% to 36% to ban leghold or
body-gripping traps and snares, ban hunting bears and bobcats
with dogs, and restructure the state Fisheries and Wildlife
Board, ending a requirement that a majority of members be
licensed hunters, fishers, or trappers.

North Carolina maintains lead in pig poop

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1996:

RALEIGH–Babe star James
Cromwell on November 12 asked to North
Carolina governor Jim Hunt to halt the construction
of yet another mega-hog farm in the
state, already the national leader in both pork
production and pollution from hog waste.
“No one has to be a vegetarian like
me to be repulsed by the suffering these animals
will endure, packed tightly indoors,
never seeing sunlight or feeling cool mud
beneath their feet,” Cromwell wrote.
Eight days earlier, the Hunt administration
relaxed pollution rules to let hog
farmers plagued by overflowing manure storage
tanks and rain-saturated fields pump more
slurry out onto the land, despite the likelihood
the slurry will contaminate waterways.

HUMANE ENFORCEMENT

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1996:

Fellow tenants of the Townhouse Motel
in Billings, Montana, complained on August 27 to
animal control officer Mary Locke that eighty-year
resident Robert Dorton had two cat-sized rats in his
room, whom he kissed and called his brothers.
Dorton refused to admit Locke when she knocked
on his door, then shot at police and firefighters who
tried to chainsaw the door down. They returned fire
with pepper spray, tear gas, and finally a water
cannon. The siege ended––without injuries to anyone––when
Dorton was tricked into capture and
taken to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation.
Kansas City Chiefs running back Todd
McNair was on October 11 convicted of 17 counts
of cruelty to 22 pit bull terriers found chained on his
partially flooded property in Gloucester County,
New Jersey. McNair is to pay nearly $5,000 in fines
plus restitution of up to $15,000 to Gloucester
County Animal Control, and forfeits the dogs.

Steve Hindi’s rap sheet

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1996:

CHICAGO––Charged on September 8
with three counts of hunter harassment and one
count of harassing wildlife, for using his paraglider
to turn a flock of wild geese away from the
Woodstock Hunt Club in Harvard, Illinois, and
jailed for refusing to pay $400 bond, Chicago
Animal Rights Coalition founder Steve Hindi was
released on his own recognisance after a four-day
hunger strike, got the paraglider back by judicial
order on September 27, and was busted again for
leading a ground-based protest outside the hunt club
on October 14.
Hindi claimed he had obeyed to the letter
a temporary restraining order to stay away from the
club, issued by Judge James Franz on October 12,
after the club sued Hindi and CHARC seeking
$100,000 in damages and $300,000 in penalties for
disrupting business.

COURT CALENDAR

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1996:

Precedents

Texas state district judge Patricia
Hancock on October 14 jailed photographer
Beverly Brock, 45, of Houston, for violating the
state’s first lifelong injunction limiting possession of
animals by a convicted animal collector. Brock
accepted the injunction, recommended by the
Houston SPCA, in May 1995, after her third animal
collecting bust since 1992, but was found in
possession of 19 cats on February 5, 1996, with the
remains of 13 dogs and cats stashed in freezers in
her feces-strewn home.
The South Carolina Supreme Court
ruled September 23 that the city of Mount Pleasant
did not violate Jim and Nancy Saviano’s rights by
passing an ordinance against keeping any “vicious
or dangerous domesticated animal or any other animal
of wild, vicious or dangerous propensities.”

Children & animals

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1996:

Scots law prevents animal and child protection
agencies from sharing case data, but veterinary pathologist
Helen Munro intends to change that. “Some of Britain’s most
notorious child murders reaffirm the link between animal cruelty
and child abuse,” she told The Daily Telegraph. “The two boys
who killed the Liverpool toddler James Bulger pulled the heads
off baby pigeons, double child-killer Mary Bell throttled
pigeons for fun, and Dunblane murderer Thomas Hamilton shot
birds from his bedroom window.”
The Eton College natural history museum scheduled
an October 23 auction to unload 460 taxidermic mounts,
mostly donated by graduates between 1850 and 1903. Proceeds
will be used for renovation, under retired biology teacher David
Smith. “In the past,” Smith said, “the emphasis of teaching was
on anatomy, classification, and the collecting of specimens.
Now biology means genetics, ecology, and evolution.”

Critics go for broke against cruel research

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1996:

BOULDER, Colorado––Now under funding
review by the National Institutes of Health, University of
Colorado biomedical researcher Mark Laudenslager’s $3 million
study of “Behavioral and Physiological Consequences of
Loss” in 120 young macaques went virtually unnoticed for
almost 12 years. But the terms “maternal deprivation,” and
“AIDS” suggest that the Laudenslager study may never be
obscure again.
Explains Laudenslager, “What we’re trying to
determine is, all things being equal, why is one person at a
greater risk from AIDS than another? Why does one HIVpositive
person die after six months, as opposed to one who’s
living 15 years later?” His hypothesis is that maternal deprivation
may inhibit full development of the immune system,
making the affected children more vulnerable to AIDS and
other diseases later in life.

Facilities

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1996:

Stop Animal Exploitation
N o w, a self-described “militant new
animal rights organization” led by former
In Defense of Animals midwest
coordinator Michael Budke, made a
September 17 public debut with news
briefings in Cincinnati and six other
cities. Each briefing announced complaints
filed with the USDA, alleging
nonenforcement of the Animal
Welfare Act in response to multiple
violations by local laboratories.

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