Congressional Digest

Supreme Court Debates November 2009 No. 8 Vol. 12
Safari Club International (SCI) and Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation (CSF)

Animal Cruelty in Media

Constitutionality of the Government Ban

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Safari Club International (SCI) and Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation (CSF)

Amici Curiae

Douglas S. Burdin, Counsel of Record The two parties in this brief are organizations dedicated to wildlife conservation and hunting rights, both domestically and internationally. Douglas S. Burdin is litigation counsel with Safari Club International. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Respondent as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on July 27, 2009.Section 48, as written, is facially overbroad and unconstitutional. Despite good intentions, Congress drafted Section 48 too broadly. It not only encompasses the production and sale of so-called "crush videos" and human-staged animal fight videos, but potentially sweeps into its reach a substantial…

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