Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Activists win legal victory just as the circus comes to town

http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2012/08/07/activists-win-legal-victory-just-circus-comes-town

Animal welfare advocates and other critics of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus just won an important free speech court victory against the city of Oakland just as they prepare to protest the circus starting its annual run there tomorrow.

The grassroots group Humanity Through Education announced that it has reached a $500,000 settlement with Oakland to a lawsuit that plaintiffs Pat Cuviello and Deniz Bolbol filed following their 2004 and 2005 arrests while trying to document abuses of elephants by circus employees.

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