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.
