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property-
Kindness Counts related dif-
ficulties.
Accelerating Animal Advocacy But, it is
the animal
In 1993, just seven states had felony animal cruelty laws; rights cases
today, all but four do—Idaho, Mississippi and the Dakotas. In that draw
2000, nine law schools had animal law studies; today about public at-
100 do, according to an Associated Press report. “Animal tention. Ac-
law is where environmental law was 20 years ago. It’s in its cording to
infancy, but growing,” says Pamela Frasch, adjunct professor Scott Heiser,
and head of the National Center for Animal Law, at Lewis & criminal
Clark Law School, in Portland. State laws vary widely. justice
Lewis & Clark opened the first Animal Legal Defense program director for the Animal Legal Defense Fund, new
Fund chapter in 1992. Today, it oversees branches at 115 law laws in many states put animal abuse on a par with drunken
schools in North America. The reason is student demand. driving cases; this pre-empts offenders from plea bargaining
David Favre, an authority in the field who teaches the subject to a lesser offense.
at Michigan State University College of Law, says that most
private practice animal law cases deal with dangerous dogs, Sources: Associated Press; AmericanHumane.org; reference
divorce settlements, purchases or other ASPCA.org.
Universal Power
New Charger Will Work with Most Mobile Phones
The GSM Association, representing the mobile communications industry in 219
countries, will embrace a universal charger standard by 2012.
The new universal charger, using a Micro-USB connector, will be compatible
with the majority of new phones. It’s expected to be 50 percent more efficient
in its standby energy use than existing chargers and will help eliminate an
estimated 51,000 tons of e-waste, because fewer chargers will be thrown away
with each new phone purchase.
Source: GreenerComputing.com
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