First Amendment challenge could threaten outdoor media

This blog and those like it could soon become illegal!

A case headed for the United States Supreme Court has the potential to make it illegal to take, sell or publish images of hunting, fishing, trapping, and virtually anything else ruled as a "depiction of animal cruelty."

United States of America v. Robert J. Stevens is being pitched as an anti-dogfighting measure by the government and the Humane Society of the United States.

In reality, it's about a 69-year old man with no criminal record facing three years in jail for making a film about pit bulls. The conviction was overturned by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which said the federal law against "depictions of animal cruelty" was unconstitutional. The government appealed the case, and it's now headed to the Supreme Court... MORE