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1983 Att'ys for Animal Rts. Newsl. [i] (1983)

handle is hein.animal/afarnws1983 and id is 1 raw text is: ATTORNEYS FOR ANIMAL RIGHTS Spring 1983 newsletter 1983 AFAR Conference Highlights By all accounts, the first Attorneys For Animal Rights Conference, held on April 9-10, 1983, in San Francisco, California, was a smashing suc- cess. Some of the finest minds in the animal rights movement were brought-together to dis- cuss the potential for litigation in each of the major areas of concern in the movement today. The two day conference was opened by outgoing President Laurence Kessenick, who welcomed the participants, and offered a perspective on the development of AFAR as a viable national organization serving the animal rights com- ,munity. The first workshop, a two hour Plenary Ses- sion, provided an overview of the philosophical and moral questions raised by our treatment of animals. Professor Bernard Rollin, Colorado State University, led off with a discussion of how the animal rights movement has progres- sed. Assistant Professor Nancy Jane Shestack, University of Connecticut School of Law, de- scribed some of the ridiculous trials and sentenc- ing of animals throughout history, including the murder trials of pigs and the excommunication of rats and locusts. She cautioned that with the move for rights of animals must come an under- standing of the limitations on the responsibilities that can reasonably be imposed on other species. Next, Professor Steve Sapontzis, California State University, Hayward, spoke about eradicating the logic of prejudice, followed by Professor Sally Gearhart, San Francisco State University, who pointed out the crucial connections be- tween all rights movements, and gave examples of how the mindset that allows for the oppres- sion of women, persons of color, old, young, and disabled persons, works in the same way against animals. Participants in the Procedural Considerations and Pitfalls workshop reviewed, along with Laurens Silver, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, the critical issue of establishing standing for animals to sue. Roger Galvin, Montgomery County (Maryland) State's Attorneys Office, presented the results of his research on the use of the mannerisms of trained blood hounds, interpreted by the trainer, as a possible new exception to the hearsay rule. Mr. Galvin would like to test whether animal communications can be regarded as admissible evidence. In the workshop on Representing the Animal Rights Activist, Arthur Margolis, of the Califor- nia State Bar, and Leonard Post, Post & Kellman, From L-R, Dr. Bernard Rollin, David Favre, Jim Mason and Henry Spira.

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