{"id":763248,"date":"2021-03-18T08:31:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T12:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=763248"},"modified":"2021-03-18T09:29:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T13:29:57","slug":"ad-gag-dismissed-u-s-court-denies-universitys-ban-of-adverts-showing-dogs-used-in-horrific-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=763248","title":{"rendered":"STOP AD-GAG: U.S. Court denies university’s ban of adverts showing dogs used in horrific experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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Texas A&M University has shown that it will go to just about any length to silence animal rights activists who want to help dogs suffering, but we have a First Amendment right to speak up for these dogs.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n

PETA:<\/strong> In a first-of-its kind ruling within the Fifth Circuit, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas has denied Texas A&M University\u2019s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit that PETA filed against it. The litigation challenges Texas A&M Vice President of Brand Development Shane Hinckley\u2019s refusal to allow PETA to place an ad on the school\u2019s buses showing a dog used in Texas A&M\u2019s canine muscular dystrophy (MD) experiments.<\/p>\n

Hinckley claimed that the ad violated Texas A&M\u2019s advertising standards prohibiting ads that contain \u201cpolitical campaigns and viewpoints or endorsements\u201d\u2014but today\u2019s court decision allows the case to move forward so that PETA can prove that this ban on \u201cpolitical\u201d speech is unreasonable…<\/p>\n

PETA is asking the court to declare that the school\u2019s policy prohibiting \u201cpolitical\u201d advertisements is vague and discriminates against the group\u2019s viewpoint in violation of the First Amendment. PETA may now proceed to discovery to collect evidence from Texas A&M (where 21 dogs\u2014at least 11 of whom are perfectly healthy\u2014are still being warehoused)…<\/p>\n

From censoring Facebook and YouTube comments to banning a man with muscular dystrophy (MD) from campus to now refusing to run an advertisement showing a dog in its laboratory, Texas A&M University (TAMU) has shown that it will go to just about any length to silence animal rights activists who want to help dogs suffering on the school\u2019s campus. But we have a First Amendment right to speak up for these dogs, which is why we\u2019re suing TAMU\u2014again\u2014for censoring free speech…<\/p>\n

MD experiments on dogs have gone on for 40 years without producing a cure for MD in humans. Under pressure from our supporters, 500 physicians, and humans with MD, TAMU stopped breeding dogs to develop the disease. The lead experimenter has retired, and many of the nearly 100 dogs have been adopted into homes\u2014but the laboratory still keeps 25 dogs imprisoned there. PETA has repeatedly offered to take all the dogs still imprisoned by TAMU and place them in good homes. SOURCE…<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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