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Justices frequently look for a conflict in the lower courts before agreeing to review an issue, said Visiting Professor of Law Cass R. Sunstein ’75. “But on the other hand, this is a case of evident national importance, and if the U.S. government wants the Court to hear it, the Court is often attentive to that fact,” Sunstein said...
Once the domain solely of activists, animal law has steadily gained respect among law schools and legal scholars since 2000, when Wise's first book, Rattling the Cage, provided an academic argument for granting legal rights to animals. Now some 40 law schools offer courses on the topic. Cass Sunstein, professor at the University of Chicago Law School, explains the appeal in ethical terms: "There is a universal agreement that animal suffering matters. Even those who think they despise the notion of animal rights think that suffering and cruelty are problems...
...something is not done about China, it doesn't matter whether [Cambodia is] in the WTO or not." --Cass Johnson, president of the National Council of Textile Organizations, after Cambodia's Parliament ratified its accession to the WTO, with the expiration of global quotas on textiles and apparel scheduled...
...numerous business associates, including banks and insurers that stopped doing business with the company because they were tired of the aggravation and fearful for their own workers' safety. HLS board members, too, have stepped down. "We will do our utmost to protect the safety of these people," says Brian Cass, HLS's managing director. But Cass himself was beaten outside his home by masked men in 2001. One man, not connected with SHAC, jailed in the attack was a longtime animal-rights extremist. HLS has been in business since 1952, but it became notorious much later - on March...
...Huntingdon had been forced to close, says Cass, Britain would have lost vital pharmaceutical, biochemical and agrochemical research work - "and who's going to invest in the U.K. if a few demonstrators can drive a company out of business?" Once the government understood that, says Cass, it was "tremendous" in its support. Sixteen months after he was assaulted, Cass - a nonscientist - was honored by the Queen for services to medical research. "We happen to be the target now," says Cass, "but it could be someone else tomorrow. The government knows that." That knowledge has helped fuel the newest animal-testing...