No Private Cause Of Action In New Jersey's Animal Cruelty Statute | Fox Rothschild LLP
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Similar to bans on citizen lawsuit based on alleged violations of the Federal Animal Welfare Act ( see, e.g., Animal Legal Def. Fund, Inc. v. Espy, 23 F.3d 496 (D.C. Cir. 1994); Peninsula Humane Soc’y v. Walters, No. C 84-2010 SAW (N.D. Cal. Feb. 5, 1985) courts have dismissed lawsuits filed by individuals alleging violations of state animal cruelty statutes on similar grounds. A good example is a case decided in New Jersey, Goldman v. Critter Control of New Jersey, 454 N.J. Super. 418 (App. Div. 2018). In Goldman, the Court...
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