{"id":749623,"date":"2017-12-15T16:23:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T16:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=749623"},"modified":"2017-12-15T16:23:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T16:23:46","slug":"after-greater-richmond-transit-company-grtc-refuses-to-run-anti-dog-experiment-ads-watchdog-group-sues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=749623","title":{"rendered":"After Greater Richmond Transit Company (GRTC) refuses to run anti-dog experiment ads, watchdog group sues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>KATIE O\u2019CONNOR:<\/strong> <em>\u2018The group leading a campaign against painful dog experiments at McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Richmond filed a lawsuit against the city\u2019s transit service for refusing to carry advertisements disparaging the studies on its buses. White Coat Waste Project, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit with a self-proclaimed goal of ending taxpayer-funded animal experiments, is alleging that GRTC Transit System violated its First and 14th amendment rights by refusing to run the ads, deeming them political. The advertisement features an image of three dogs peeking out from behind bars overlaid with the text \u201cPrisoners Of Waste,\u201d under which it states, \u201cMcGuire VA Medical Center: Stop Taxpayer-Funded Dog Experiments\u201d\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Earlier this year, White Coat Waste launched a campaign to stop experiments on dogs at McGuire, which the medical center was conducting as part of its research into cardiac health in humans, and for which it received funding through state grants. Some of the experiments are classified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as extremely painful without providing relief to the dogs<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u2026 The suit claims that the policy prohibiting political ads is too broad and allows the agency to decide what is considered political, which creates \u201ccontent- and viewpoint-based discrimination.\u201d\u2026 \u201cThe policy against so-called political ads allows the government to pick and choose what views people can express,\u201d said Matthew Strugar, a Los Angeles-based attorney representing White Coat Waste. \u201cThey implement the policy in a way that appears inconsistent with their own policy and with the law\u201d.\u2019<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richmond.com\/news\/local\/city-of-richmond\/after-grtc-refuses-to-run-anti-dog-experiment-ads-watchdog\/article_a61b0d38-651d-536d-9277-c0f14bfc466a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">SOURCE\u2026<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lGHuv9-RrdE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KATIE O\u2019CONNOR: \u2018The group leading a campaign against painful dog experiments at McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Richmond filed a lawsuit against the city\u2019s transit service for refusing to carry advertisements disparaging the studies on its buses. 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