Humane Society Sues Postal Service for Mailing Animal Fighting Materials in Violation of New Federal Law

On July 10th, The Humane Society of the United States filed a lawsuit in federal court in the District of Columbia challenging the United States Postal Service's refusal to implement portions of a new federal law that prohibits the mailing of animal fighting paraphernalia, including trade magazines that advertise fighting animals, knives, and other implements used in illegal dogfights and cockfights.

In May 2007, President Bush signed the federal Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act, which strengthened the federal law against dogfighting and cockfighting. One provision of the law makes it a felony to send any "commercial speech for purposes of promoting or in any other manner furthering an animal fighting venture" through the mail. The suit alleges that the Postal Service is violating the law by knowingly accepting animal fighting materials for mailing, and by issuing discount, bulk mail permits to two animal fighting trade publications

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