A small (and maybe technical) victory in the fight against Ag Gag laws today. In the fight against Kansas’ Ag Gag law, we sued on behalf of four plaintiffs: the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the Center for Food Safety, and Kansas-based Shy 38 and Hope Sanctuary. In January, the federal court declared that law is unconstitutional—but didn’t issue an injunction preventing the state from enforcing it.
So we asked the court to issue one. In response, Kansas argued that the law was only unconstitutional as applied to the four plaintiffs, meaning the state believed it could still enforce the law against any other organization that conducted an undercover investigation in Kansas. And it turned into much more of a fight than it should have.
Thankfully, the court agreed with us, and today enjoined enforcement of the Kansas Ag Gag law on its face, against anyone. Undercover investigations of factory farms in Kansas are protected, no matter who conducts them.