Little-Acorn
Well-Known Member
Amidst whining Occupiers, govts requiring us to buy things, gays getting "married" by court decree, governments spending more than the National GDP, and other bizarre insanity, a ray of light breaks through the darkening clouds.
A Federal judge tells a bunch of leftist fanatic nutcases that they are nothing more than a bunch of leftist fanatic nutcases.
Was wondering if that EVER was going to happen again.
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http://www.10news.com/news/30412432...nd_break&ts=T&tmi=sand_break_1_06130102082012
Federal Judge Tosses Whale Slavery Case
Judge Dismissed PETA's Lawsuit Seeking Constitutional Rights For SeaWorld Orcas
POSTED: 4:07 pm PST February 8, 2012
UPDATED: 4:16 pm PST February 8, 2012
SAN DIEGO -- A federal judge in San Diego on Wednesday dismissed an unprecedented lawsuit seeking to grant constitutional protection against slavery to a group of orcas that perform at SeaWorld parks, saying the 13th amendment applies only to humans.
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Miller stopped the case from proceeding two days after he became the first judge in U.S. history to listen to arguments in court over the possibility of granting constitutional rights for members of an animal species.
"As 'slavery' and 'involuntary servitude' are uniquely human activities, as those terms have been historically and contemporaneously applied, there is simply no basis to construe the Thirteenth Amendment as applying to non-humans," Miller wrote in his ruling.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals filed the lawsuit in October and named five whales as plaintiffs. PETA says the wild-captured orcas are enslaved by SeaWorld because they are held in concrete tanks against their will and forced to perform in shows at its parks in San Diego and Orlando, Fla.
A Federal judge tells a bunch of leftist fanatic nutcases that they are nothing more than a bunch of leftist fanatic nutcases.
Was wondering if that EVER was going to happen again.
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http://www.10news.com/news/30412432...nd_break&ts=T&tmi=sand_break_1_06130102082012
Federal Judge Tosses Whale Slavery Case
Judge Dismissed PETA's Lawsuit Seeking Constitutional Rights For SeaWorld Orcas
POSTED: 4:07 pm PST February 8, 2012
UPDATED: 4:16 pm PST February 8, 2012
SAN DIEGO -- A federal judge in San Diego on Wednesday dismissed an unprecedented lawsuit seeking to grant constitutional protection against slavery to a group of orcas that perform at SeaWorld parks, saying the 13th amendment applies only to humans.
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Miller stopped the case from proceeding two days after he became the first judge in U.S. history to listen to arguments in court over the possibility of granting constitutional rights for members of an animal species.
"As 'slavery' and 'involuntary servitude' are uniquely human activities, as those terms have been historically and contemporaneously applied, there is simply no basis to construe the Thirteenth Amendment as applying to non-humans," Miller wrote in his ruling.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals filed the lawsuit in October and named five whales as plaintiffs. PETA says the wild-captured orcas are enslaved by SeaWorld because they are held in concrete tanks against their will and forced to perform in shows at its parks in San Diego and Orlando, Fla.
