The Animal Crush Video Prohibition Act of 2010 was an animal cruelty prevention law aimed at videos showing women in high heels crushing small animals. While the law took aim at these videos, it ended up being used to target Robert Stevens instead. United States v.

These acts of extreme animal cruelty are videotaped, and the resulting video tapes are commonly referred to as animal crush videos. (5) The Supreme Court of the United States has long held that obscenity is an exception to speech protected under the First …

A federal judge has ruled that charges in a Houston "animal crush" video case violate the First Amendment, delivering a blow to the recently revised law in the first prosecution brought under it.

A crush fetish is a fetish and a paraphilia in which sexual arousal is associated with observing objects being crushed or being crushed oneself. The crushed objects vary from inanimate items (e.g., food), to injurious and/or fatal crushing of invertebrates (e.g., insects, snails, worms, spiders), or vertebrates (e.g., birds, reptiles, mammals).. In the most severe cases, crushing has involved ...

Because Robert J. Stevens managed to persuade a court that his dog-fighting business was legitimate, and that shutting it down would mean a breach of his First Amendment rights, now animal crush ...

President Trump signed the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act, which revises and expands criminal provisions with respect to animal crushing. For quick viewing, C-SPAN provides Points of ...

In United States v.Stevens, 559 U.S. 460 (2010), the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated a federal law criminalizing the creation, distribution, or possession of images of animal cruelty as substantially overbroad.The Court resisted efforts by the federal government to create a new unprotected category of speech. Man who sold videos of fighting pitbulls indicted under federal law prohibiting animal ...

These acts of extreme animal cruelty are videotaped, and the resulting video tapes are commonly referred to as 'animal crush videos'. "(5) The Supreme Court of the United States has long held that obscenity is an exception to speech protected under the First …

Child porn isn't protected under the First Amendment because it necessarily involves cruelty to an unconsenting victim; we have a similar situation here, albeit with the wrinkle of having to distinguish "sporting" violence against animals, like hunting where the point is the kill, from "prurient" violence, like crush vids where the ...

"The demand for hunting depictions exceeds the estimated demand for crush videos or animal fighting depictions by several orders of magnitude." ... prompted by …

The Ridons were convicted under the relatively recent Philippine amendment to the Animal Welfare Law that made crush videos illegal in that country. "This case is a victory not just for PETA Asia but also for Philippine law enforcement and people around the …

Supreme Court Strikes Down Law Banning Animal Crush Videos, Cites First Amendment. By Debra Cassens Weiss. April 20, 2010, 2:46 pm CDT

The measure would retain the existing prohibition in 18 U.S.C. § 48 on the creation and distribution of "crush videos" but would also criminalize an intentional act of animal crushing. The bill defines "animal crushing" to include conduct in which one or more living non-human mammals, birds, reptiles, or amphibians is purposely crushed ...

(2) Distribution of animal crush videos: It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly sell, market, advertise, exchange, or distribute an animal crush video in, or using a means or facility of, interstate or foreign commerce. The Court of Appeals made note that the First Amendment does allow for some restrictions on free speech.

Maine currently leads the nation in terms of its laws protecting animals from cruelty.. But the misleadingly named "Right to Food" amendment could undermine the state's position as a leader on humane issues, while exposing animals to potential abuse.. This proposed amendment to the state constitution, appearing on Maine ballots as Question 3, would enshrine a right to "grow, raise ...

Torturing animals and filming their painful deaths is an activity protected by the U.S. Constitution, according to a federal judge in Texas. In an opinion issued this week, U.S. District Judge Sim Lake tossed out charges against a Houston couple accused of violating the federal "animal crush video" statute. Lake wrote that the law "abridges the freedom of speech protected by the First …

A licensed veterinarian based in Aventura, Florida who recorded himself sexually abusing dogs, shared the bestiality videos on-line, and collected on-line child pornography, was sentenced today in ...

The PACT (Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture) Act: Signed into law in 2019, the PACT Act makes some of the most egregious forms of animal cruelty — specifically crushing, burning, drowning, suffocating, impaling or sexual exploitation — in or affecting interstate commerce or within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States a federal crime.

As I understand it (1) this new Act is an amendment of an existing statute (Section 48 of title 18, United States Code) and (2) the existing law prohibits the distribution of videos of crushing animals commonly called 'crush videos'. This left the general animal welfare law to cover the actual act of crushing animals.

Federal action addressing animal cruelty stretches back to the late 1990s, after the Humane Society of the United States began investigating …

48. Animal crushing ``(a) Offenses.-- ``(1) Crushing.--It shall be unlawful for any person to purposely engage in animal crushing in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce or within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States. ... The budgetary effects of this Act, and the amendments made by this Act, for the ...

[1] This law replaces the Animal Crush Video Prohibition Act of 1999 (PL 106-152), which in 2010 the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional on the grounds that the language was so broad that it could have applied to activities protected by the First Amendment.

Text of H.R. 5566 (111th): Animal Crush Video Prohibition Act ... as of Nov 15, 2010 (Passed the House with an Amendment version). H.R. 5566 (111th): Animal Crush Video Prohibition Act of 2010

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The statute prohibits "animal crushing" and defines it to include, not only crushing, but also conduct that results in "serious bodily injury" as defined, inter alia, in 18 U.S.C. § 1365. Why this provision was included by reference is unclear, but section 1365, entitled "Tampering with consumer products," defines "bodily injury ...

The 1999 law signed by President Clinton made it unlawful to sell "crush videos" and nearly all depictions of animal cruelty. Stevens and his lawyers utilized the First Amendment to convince the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia to reverse his 37-month conviction and strike down the law altogether.

Supreme Court to Weigh Legality Of Animal Abuse [Crush] Videos [Ed. Note: Crush videos show the crushing to death of living animals (kittens, rats, rabits,etc.)[Ed. Note: Crush videos show the crushing to death of living animals (kitt From WashingtonPost.Fro The Supreme Court yesterday (5/27/09) turned to the gruesome, announcing

SEC. 3. ANIMAL CRUSH VIDEOS. (a) In General- Section 48 of title 18, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:-'Sec. 48. Animal crush videos '(a) Definition- In this section the term 'animal crush video' means any photograph, motion-picture …

A letter from the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys (PDF) urging prompt Senate action to address the animal crush video problem is entered in the record. Sept. 27, 2010 – Sens. Kyl, Merkley, and Burr introduce the Animal Crush Video Prohibition Act …

Two weeks ago, at the urging of The Humane Society of the United States, the House passed legislation by a vote of 416-3 to reinstate a federal prohibition on gruesome animal crush videos that have made a comeback since the federal courts overturned the 1999 law Congress passed to ban their production and sale. The U.S. Supreme Court granted an appeal on this case and in a ruling in …

Shown Here: Public Law No: 111-294 (12/09/2010) Animal Crush Video Prohibition Act of 2010 - Amends the federal criminal code to revise the prohibition against depictions of animal cruelty to prohibit anyone from knowingly creating an animal crush video if: (1) such person intends or has reason to know that such video will be distributed in, or using a means or facility of, interstate or ...

Crush videos, based on a sexual fetish, most commonly depict a woman killing an animal by crushing it with her feet, often while wearing stiletto heels. The statute reads, in pertinent part, "§48.