Comments on: If I could sue like the animals https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/03/if-i-could-sue-like-the-animals/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sat, 24 May 2008 02:07:52 +0000 hourly 1 By: a fool in the forest https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/03/if-i-could-sue-like-the-animals/comment-page-1/#comment-2533 Sun, 02 Apr 2006 16:45:28 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3268#comment-2533 April Fool’s Blawg Review Prequel

Ch. 1 — In which We Begin in an Interrogative Mode What kind of fool am I? I am, first, the kind of fool who signs himself up to host an issue of Blawg Review sometime in distant, sunny August,

]]> By: danny friedmann https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/03/if-i-could-sue-like-the-animals/comment-page-1/#comment-2532 Wed, 29 Mar 2006 05:39:56 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3268#comment-2532 The Animal Copyright Foundation should distinguish advertisments where wild animals are used from the ones where non wild animals are used. If wild animals are used in advertisment and picture/movie is derived from an animation or animals living in the wild (as in a nature movie), I think it is a great idea. If wild animals are specially held for advertisement purposes in cramped cages most of the time and cannot act on their natural behaviour, it’s a bad idea. Then even the royalty paid to a good cause is as a bribe for unethical behaviour.

]]> By: Gideon Kanner https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/03/if-i-could-sue-like-the-animals/comment-page-1/#comment-2531 Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:24:15 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3268#comment-2531 If trees can have standing then why not animals? After all it should be easier to communicate with a Clydesdale than with a redwood tree that, for all we know, is pining to become a picnic table but can’t communicate its wishes. It was all covered in the song “I talk to the trees, but they don’t listen to me. . . .” Life isn’t fair.

]]> By: David Wilson https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/03/if-i-could-sue-like-the-animals/comment-page-1/#comment-2530 Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:27:59 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3268#comment-2530 I’m sure this idea will find favor with Steven Wise, the Harvard Law professor who wrote “Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals”.

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