{"id":749605,"date":"2017-12-15T15:31:52","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T15:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=749605"},"modified":"2017-12-15T15:31:52","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T15:31:52","slug":"utah-to-pay-animal-welfare-groups-349000-to-settle-ag-gag-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=749605","title":{"rendered":"Utah to pay animal welfare groups $349,000 to settle \u2018ag-gag\u2019 lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>TIFFANY CALDWELL:<\/strong> <em>\u2018The Utah Attorney General\u2019s Office has agreed to pay animal welfare groups $349,000 to settle a lawsuit over the state\u2019s \u201cag-gag\u201d law, according to court documents filed on Friday. As long as it\u2019s approved by the Utah Legislature, the $349,000 will cover attorneys\u2019 fees and costs, court documents state. If the Legislature doesn\u2019t fund the payment, the parties will ask a judge to rule on an appropriate amount. The Animal Legal Defense Fund and the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals, along with Amy Meyer \u2014 the first person charged in Utah with violating the ag-gag law \u2014 filed the lawsuit in 2013\u2026 Meyer had filmed a sick cow being pushed with a front-loader, according to the lawsuit\u2026 A federal judge, siding with animal-rights activists, struck down the \u201cag-gag\u201d law in July, ruling that it violated free-speech rights\u2019.<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/news\/2017\/11\/18\/utah-to-pay-animal-welfare-groups-349000-to-settle-ag-gag-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>SOURCE\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-NQqediTk1E\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TIFFANY CALDWELL: \u2018The Utah Attorney General\u2019s Office has agreed to pay animal welfare groups $349,000 to settle a lawsuit over the state\u2019s \u201cag-gag\u201d law, according to court documents filed on Friday. As long as it\u2019s approved by the Utah Legislature, the $349,000 will cover attorneys\u2019 fees and costs, court documents state. If the Legislature doesn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":749606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[31,35],"class_list":["post-749605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rights","tag-farming","tag-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=749605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749607,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749605\/revisions\/749607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/749606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=749605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=749605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=749605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}