The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals heard argument this morning in Idaho’s appeal of our victory striking down the state’s Ag Gag statute, which made it a crime for undercover investigators to obtain employment on factory farms or secretly record instances of animal cruelty or abuse.
Courthouse News Service provides a summary of the proceedings here. The agricultural industry’s Capital Press gives its take here. Libertarian website Reason.com weighs in on why we should prevail here. And I provide a question-by-question account of the argument on my Twitter account.
Watch the entire video of the argument below.
The Attorney General of Idaho appeals from the district court's permanent injunction in an action challenging, under the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the constitutionality of Idaho Code § 18-7042.