ABSTRACT
Stop Huntington Animal Cruelty (SHAC) sought to apply the principle to its activities in an effort to avoid criminal liability for the illegal acts of its adherents. Congress acted to protect researchers who use animals in their experiments as early as 1992. Numerous laboratory break-ins have occurred during this time frame, violence and vandalism at fur farms are on the rise, as are animal releases from research and animal husbandry facilities around the world. The footage, which depicted animal abuse, became public when it was used in a television program, igniting protests against Huntingdon by a number of animal rights organizations. SHAC also invited its supporters to engage in electronic civil disobedience against Huntingdon and various companies associated with Huntingdon. Sally Dillenback testified that the protests stopped in early 2003, when Marsh stopped providing insurance brokerage services to Huntingdon.
