Government,
Criminal
Nov. 12, 2019
PACT Act provides additional federal enforcement tools against extreme animal cruelty
What surprisingly remains permissible on the federal level is the actual act of animal “crushing.” That is, there is no specific federal law that bans those horrendous acts that most Americans would agree are an abomination to our social construct. This bill will change that.
Mila Zain
Humane Society of the United StatesMila Zain is the managing attorney for Legislation in the Animal Protection Litigation department of the Humane Society of the United States. During her tenure at the HSUS she has drafted and overseen the review hundreds of bills at all levels of government, including the PACT Act. Prior to joining the HSUS, Mila was in private practice where her pro bono work focused on animal protection litigation.
Bruce Wagman
Partner
Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila
Bruce has an almost exclusive practice in animal law (litigation, legislative drafting, education, and counseling), representing both individuals and animal protection organizations. He teaches animal law at three Bay Area law schools, is coeditor of the Animal Law casebook, and the 2017 book Wildlife Law and Ethics, and coauthor of "A Global Worldview of Animal Law," published in 2011.
Almost a decade ago, the Animal Crush Video Prohibition Act was passed by Congress, prohibiting certain so-called "crush videos" in which small animals are maimed, tortured and crushed to death, bizarrely providing pleasure to sexual deviants. For purposes of the statute, the term "crush" as it pertains to the videos actually includes crushing, burning, drowning, suffocating, impaling, sexual abuse (i.e., bestiality) and other extreme injury of animals. The language, ...
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