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Speaking Up for Animals
Lawyers organize a network for better management and protection of companion animals in disaster situations By Bliss Foster Reprinted with permission from Bark Magazine You can visit them online at www.thebark.com |
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The ever-present, ubiquitous images of pets dog-paddling through toxic waters and stranded on rooftops following Hurricane Katrina remind most of us of the powerlessness we felt over the fate of so many lives. If another catastrophe strikes, would history repeat itself, or is animal welfare a topic du jour in disaster-related legislation and emergency plans?
In 2005, the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) of the American Bar Association (ABA) created an Animal Law Committee chaired by attorney Barbara Gislason. Post-Hurricane Katrina, the Committee formed the ABA-TIPS Animal Disaster Relief Network to maintain a national forum that identifies and works on solutions for animal-related disaster emergency needs. "I think lawyers have a unique set of skills and role to fill in the context of animal disaster relief that has been underutilized in the past," said Gislason Read the entire article here in PDFs format Speaking Up for Animals |
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September 3, 2006 New Breed of Lawyer Gives Every Dog His Day in Court Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company For pigeons in New York City, Bobby, Bertha and Sparky had it pretty good. After being injured in Central Park each was rescued by Gela Kline and Al Streit - founders of a group called Pigeon People - and given a home in the couple's rent-stabilized apartment on the Upper West Side, where for years the birds passed the time cooing and making music by pecking the keys of a toy piano. A few years ago, however, the building went co-op, and the new landlords wanted the couple - and their birds - out. They sued to evict, citing an old city ordinance that outlawed chickens, ducks, cows "or any pigeon except Antwerp or homing pigeons" in a New York apartment. Ms. Kline and Mr. Streit thought they were doomed. Then they called Maddy Tarnofsky, pet lawyer, who quickly spotted a weakness in the landlord's case: How exactly, she wondered, could the landlord prove that Bobby, Bertha and Sparky weren't Antwerp or homing pigeons after all? Read the entire article here... |
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