Animal rights groups sue over latest Iowa farm trespass law
Associated PressDES MOINES, Iowa — A group of animal rights and public interest groups filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the latest Iowa law designed to criminalize investigations into animal treatment on livestock farms. A second law was passed in 2019 shortly after the judge’s decision in the earlier law and the animal rights coalition sued which led to a judge prohibiting officials from enforcing it while a lawsuit challenging its constitutionality continues. “By passing yet another unconstitutional Ag-Gag law, Iowa’s state legislature has put on full display its willingness to trample the Constitution in an attempt to hide from the public what really goes on at factory farms,” said Tyler Lobdell, Staff Attorney at Food & Water Watch, one of the groups filing the latest legal challenge. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s decision to dismiss the lawsuit filed in 2019 by the Animal Legal Defense Fund and other animal rights organizations.
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