New “crush video” bill sent to Obama
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2010:
WASHINGTON D.C., BEIJING– U.S. President Barack Obama was
expected to sign legislation reinstating a ban on the sale of “crush”
videos “in the next week or so,” Humane Society Legislative Fund
president Mike Markarian told ANIMAL PEOPLE near press time. The
bill was approved by the House of Representatives on November 14,
2010, and by the Senate on November 19. It replaces a 1999 law
struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in April 2010 as excessively
broad.
The 1999 bill was opposed by major journalism societies as a
potential threat to news reportage, but most took no position on the
redrafted replacement bill.