As mentioned in Part 1 of this blog, a district court in Kentucky recently dismissed the appeal brought by Maximum Security’s owners to overturn his first place disqualification in
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Federal Court Upholds Disqualification of Maximum Security in the 2019 Kentucky Derby, Part 1
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Maximum Security’s owners cannot challenge the Kentucky racing officials’ disqualification of Maximum Security in the Kentucky Derby, according to a recent federal court decision. West v. Kentucky Horse Racing Comm.…
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NYC Council will consider a proposed circus ban (and more)
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NYC Council is at it again.
This time, they are considering an ordinance that will ‘prohibit the display or exhibition of many wild or exotic animals, with exceptions for accredited…
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Guest Post: Injuries and Related Drug Use on the Track-Part 1
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Published with permission by Rutgers student Rita Baorto, who submitted this paper for “Animal and the Law,” a class I taught during the Spring semester, 2016.
Injuries and Related…
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Guest Post: Injuries and Related Drug Use on the Track-Part 2
By Nancy E. Halpern, D.V.M. on
Published with permission by Rutgers student Rita Baorto, who submitted this paper for “Animal and the Law,” a class I taught during the Spring semester, 2016.
Injuries and Related Drug…
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No More Elephants
By Nancy E. Halpern, D.V.M. on
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, owned by Feld Entertainment, announced that they will no longer include elephants in their shows as of 2018, despite having recently won a…
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What you probably don’t know about Ringling Brothers work to save elephants
By Nancy E. Halpern, D.V.M. on
You may not know that Ringling Brothers maintains a captive breeding program that may be saving increasingly threatened wild Asian elephants, whose numbers have twindled to less than 35,000.
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