Having been prepared for 8 years the lawsuit against Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus and Feld Entertainment (Ringling Brothers) for violations of the U.S. Endangered Species Act, is finally going to trial starting Monday, 27 October, 2008. The suit is brought by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, The Animal Welfare Institute, The Fund for Animals, The Animal Protection Institute, and a former Ringling Brothers’ employee, Tom Rider, who worked as a barn man with the elephants for two and a half years.
Joyce is an expert witness in the trial for the plaintiffs and is scheduled to testify on Monday. The case is being heard in federal court in Washington DC, in courtroom 24A, and is expected to last for approximately three weeks. The court proceedings are open to the public.
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Good luck Joyce – even though I’m sure you are totally prepared for this case, it’s obviously going to be a watershed. I wish I could be there in the stands – I really hope you get an enormous amount of publicity and public support. I’ll tell everyone I know in DC to go and to blog about it!
That’s less than a mile from where I work at Fifth and E streets, NW. Next week at work is pretty busy but if I can sneak away at lunch I’ll try to catch some of the proceedings. I hope with everything I have that the elephants win this case.
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I hope RR&BBC gets nailed! I work for a very large firm in Phoenix and a few years ago was successful in stopping the sale of tickets through our employee club to visit the circus when they came to town. Fingers crossed the outcome is FOR the animals!!
Thanks for the heads up. I will be watching this case and the outcome (I wonder if the proceedings will be videotaped and available online?). I hope they nailed, too, Dana!