LANA submits TWO amicus curiae briefs in the first week of our launch!

The first is in a case pending in New York State’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, wherein a criminal defendant is challenging the constitutionality of a portion of the state’s animal cruelty statute, specifically, regarding the failure to provide veterinary care. LANA knows the importance of prosecuting animal cruelty cases, and the importance of strengthening our animal cruelty statute, not weakening it! LANA asks the Court, along with the prosecutor, to deem the law constitutional.

The second is in a rare lower court case, also in New York, wherein a plaintiff is asking the court to allow for emotional damages for the loss of a companion animal, when that animal was killed right in front of the owner’s eyes, due to someone’s negligence. Current NY law only allows recovery of such damages for loss of a member of the plaintiff’s immediate human family. LANA knows that animals are also a part of our immediate family, and asks the Court to deem it so.

Cruelty in Progress

LANA has been asked to assist in getting action taken by NYPD to rescue thirteen dogs living in squalor in a basement in Brooklyn. NYPD is aware of the matter and has taken NO action, claiming that these dogs are “fine”. LANA — along with animal rescue group, Zion’s Mission, is not having that. These dogs are not “fine.” Together, we are taking whatever steps are available to compel the NYPD and elected officials to rescue these dogs and press criminal charges on the perpetrators! Please donate!