CALIFORNIA VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff and Respondent,
v.
CITY OF WEST HOLLYWOOD, Defendant and Appellant.
Court of Appeal of California, Second District, Division Seven.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
June 22, 2007.
June 22, 2007.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Eisenberg, Raizman, Thurston & Wong and Orly Degani; Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold and Orly Degani; Michael Jenkins, City Attorney, for Defendant and Appellant.
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, George A. Nicoud III, Sarah E. Piepmeier, San Francisco; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Perlette Michele Jura, Kahn A. Scolnick and Vanessa C. Adriance, Los Angeles, for Animal Legal Defense Fund, The Association of Veterinarians for Animal Rights and the Paw Project as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.
Dennis J. Herrera, City Attorney, Danny Chou, Deputy City Attorney, for The City and County of San Francisco as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.
Wilke, Fleury, Hoffelt, Gould & Birney and Daniel L. Baxter, Sacramento, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
Court of Appeal of California, Second District, Division Seven.
PERLUSS, P.J.
Echoing Gandhi's teaching that a society's moral progress is best judged by its treatment of animals,1 the City of West Hollywood has banned as cruel and inhumane the practice of animal declawing unless necessary for a therapeutic purpose. Believing West Hollywood's prohibition of recognized veterinary medical procedures within its city limits was both inappropriate and ill-advised, the California Veterinary Medical Association...
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