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Palliative Animal Law: The War on Animal Cruelty

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In 2019 President Donald Trump signed into law the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act (Pub. L. No. 116–72, 133 Stat. 1151 [2019] [codified at 18 U.S.C. § 48].) Although every state already permitted felony animal cruelty liability, animal lawyers hailed the PACT Act as a “defining moment” for animal law because it allowed acts of animal cruelty to be charged as federal felonies.

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  1. 1.Brooks InstituteUniversity of Denver, Sturm College of LawDenverUSA

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