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Animal Rights, Free Speech Groups File Lawsuit Challenging Iowa’s Ag Whistleblower Law

Listen to the entire show – River to River This week, animal rights and free speech organizations filed a lawsuit against the State of Iowa that challenges a state law from 2012, often referred to as Iowa’s ag-gag law or ag-whistleblower law. The law made it illegal to get a job at a livestock farm through misrepresentation in order to conduct an undercover animal cruelty investigation. The …


Missouri Attorney General Backs Professor in Lawsuit

The Missouri Attorney General’s Office has filed a lawsuit against the University of Missouri Board of Curators in support of a university law professor’s challenge to the campus firearms ban. In the lawsuit filed Tuesday in Boone County, Andrew Hirth, deputy general counsel for Attorney General Chris Koster, wrote that the campus ban on guns conflicts with state law.