June 9, 2023
By Macie Codina HB 941/SB 942: Authorization of Restrictions Concerning Dogs SB 942 makes changes to Florida’s “Dangerous Dogs” law. Currently, a county or municipality […]
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May 17, 2022
By Ralph A. DeMeo and Macie Codina, Guilday Law As the 2022 Florida Legislative session came to a close, attention turned to watching the […]
September 28, 2021
Before they begin work at Miami International Airport, employees must be screened for COVID-19. Two 7-year-old dogs, Cobra and One Betta, sniff the employees’ face coverings […]
August 26, 2020
The Florida Legislature has passed a new law, effective July 1, 2020, regarding housing discrimination against people with emotional support animals (ESAs) as well as concerns […]
May 1, 2020
Netflix’s “Tiger King” was released as the world was entering into lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and it quickly became the talk of many Zoom […]
January 4, 2019
As the values of our society have changed over time, often very slowly over decades, our laws have naturally followed suit. During the last two decades […]
September 16, 2018
It has been illegal in California since 2000 to test on animals where there is an appropriate alternative method available. But the California Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act […]
May 18, 2018
It all started when, in 2011, a wildlife photographer named David Slater left his camera unattended on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. A crested macaque […]
January 10, 2018
The Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), along with a coalition of animal advocacy groups, is proposing the Florida Orca Protection Act for the upcoming 2018 legislative […]