Animal Legal Defense Fund, et al. v. Kelly, et al.

Docket Number20-3082
Decision Date19 August 2021
The Kansas Farm Animal and Field Crop and Research Facilities Protection Act (the “Act”) criminalized certain actions directed at an animal facility without effective consent of the owner of the facility and with intent to damage the enterprise of such facility. The Act provided that consent was not effective if induced through deception. Animal Legal Defense Fund (“ALDF”) wished to perform investigations by planting ALDF investigators as employees of animal facilities to document abuse of animals that ALDF would then publicize...

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10 cases
  • Animal Legal Def. Fund v. Reynolds
    • United States
    • U.S. District Court — Southern District of Iowa
    • 14 Marzo 2022
    ...law which the Tenth Circuit recently struck down as unconstitutional on viewpoint discrimination grounds. See Animal Legal Def. Fund v. Kelly , 9 F.4th 1219 (10th Cir. 2021). The law at issue in Kelly was a law passed by the Kansas legislature which prohibited "[b.] acquiring or exercisin......
  • Brown v. Kemp
    • United States
    • U.S. Court of Appeals — Seventh Circuit
    • 13 Noviembre 2023
    ...speaker's motive led the Court to find that the ordinance was viewpoint-based. Id. Even closer to this case, in Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Kelly, 9 F.4th 1219 (10th Cir. 2021), a statute banned entering "an animal facility to take pictures by photograph, video camera or by any other means......
  • United States v. Mackey
    • United States
    • U.S. District Court — Eastern District of New York
    • 23 Enero 2023
    ...on false factual statements that cause legally cognizable harm tend not to offend the Constitution." Animal Legal Def. Fund v. Kelly, 9 F.4th 1219, 1232 (10th Cir. 2021) (citing Alvarez, 567 U.S. at 719, 132 S.Ct. 2537 and id. at 734-36, 132 S.Ct. 2537 (Breyer, J., concurring in the judgmen......
  • Nat'l Coal. on Black Civil Participation v. Wohl
    • United States
    • U.S. District Court — Southern District of New York
    • 8 Marzo 2023
    ...cause legally cognizable harm tend not to offend the Constitution." Mackey, 2023 WL 363595, at *21 (citing Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Kelly, 9 F.4th 1219, 1232 (10th Cir. 2021) (citing Alvarez, 567 U.S. at 719, 132 S.Ct. 2537; id. at 734-36, 132 S.Ct. 2537 (Breyer, J., concurring in the H......
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