Cruel Intentions
To Act Towards Animals with Welfare
Rights, Writes, and Rites . . . But Mostly Rights
I've Been Sitting All Day. I'd Like to Stand.
You've Been on the Road for HOW Long?
100

Although controversial among many advocates, this remains an available sentence in almost all US jurisdictions for animal cruelty convictions.

What is confinement/prison?

100

The dog that gave life to the passage of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA).

Who is Pepper?

100

These rights only exist in jural relation: an advantage and a disadvantage.


What are Hohfeldian rights?

100

The two types of standing.

What is Article III standing and statutory standing?

Note: for our purposes you could have also answered:

  • What is Article III standing and prudential standing?
  • What is Article III standing and Private Right of Action (PRoA)?
100

In the United States, the maximum number of hours a pig can be transported w/o a break by truck when going to the slaughterhouse.

What is the 28 hours?

200

Although some may consider aspects of me inhumane, generally I am exempt from animal cruelty laws. 

Any one of these:

  • What are standard veterinary practices?
  • What is Educational or Scientific Research?
  • What are farmed animals?
  • What is pest control practices?
200

The year the AWA was passed.

What is 1966?

200

I am a type of Hohfeldian advantage sometimes described as a “permission w/o protection.”

What is a liberty right?

200

These are the three elements of Article III standing.


What are: (1) injury in fact, (2) reasonably traceable to defendant [causation], AND (3) redressability?

200

Because I'm a sheep, in addition to the standard hour allotment, I can be transported for this many additional hours if the standard allotment ends at night.

What is 8 hours?

300

This law allows for court room advocates much like guardian ad litem or CASA but for non-human animals.

What is Desmond’s Law?

(Would accept: “What is Court Animal Advocate Program (CAAP)?” But note that “Desmond’s  Law” is the law. CAAP is the program.)

300

This is the agency responsible for enforcing the AWA.

What is the USDA (APHIS)?

300

Some describe these rights as being a "freedom from" others as the ability to pursue. They describe most of the rights in the Bill of Rights.

What are negative rights?

300

While the court must have Article III standing (akin to SMJ), the plaintiff must have THIS type of standing.

What is prudential standing? (Alt: statutory standing OR private right of action)

300

The maximum amount of time allowed for cattle when the owner asks in writing that the standard allotment be extended?

What is 36 hours?

400

Thanks to this New York case, we know that at least some jurisdictions expand the definition of "pet" beyond just cat and dog.

What is People v. Garcia?

400

The committee responsible for the internal review of animal welfare.

What is an IACUC?

400

These rights are a set of rights identified in a single guiding document that protect persons in the United States against unreasonable government interference.

What are Constitutional rights?

400

A case originating out of Oregon where ALDF attempted to garner standing for non-human animals through tactics such as renaming the plaintiff.

What is Justice?

400

After traveling for the standard allotment of hours, we have been "resting" for this long, equal to the minimum requirement plus one hour.


What is 6 hours?

500

Under anti-cruelty laws, animals may be classified as each of these three depending on the state of the case.

What is property, victim, and evidence?

500

Although the original animal scope of the AWA was THIS, it has now been expanded to cover THESE animals generally - with exceptions

What is cats and dogs [then] AND warm blooded animals [now]?

500

I am a type of Hohfeldian disadvantage sometimes described as "exposure to having one's legal status changed."

What is a liability?

500

These are the four tiers of Wise's pyramid, listed in order.

Tier 4 (Bottom): personhood; Tier 3: rights; Tier 2: PRoA; Tier 1: Article III standing

500

The maximum amount of time livestock can be transported when food, water, and ample space are provided during transport?

What is TRICK QUESTION?! There is no maximum when food, water, and adequate space are provided.

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