United States v. Fullmer, No. 06-4211; Third Circuit; opinion by Fuentes, U.S.C.J.; dissent by Fisher, U.S.C.J.; filed October 14, 2009. Before Judges Fuentes, Fisher and Ditter, District Judge, sitting by designation. On appeal from the District of New Jersey. [Sat below: Judge Thompson.] DDS No. 10-8-5593 [60 pp.]
Huntingdon Life Sciences is a research corporation that performs testing. Huntingdon has three laboratories, two in the United Kingdom and one in New Jersey. All Huntingdon laboratories use animals as test subjects. In the late 1990s, Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty was formed in the United Kingdom (SHAC-UK). The organization’s mission is to close Huntingdon laboratories. After SHAC-UK published a newsletter that listed the names and addresses of the Huntingdon directors, animal rights protestors subjected the Huntingdon directors to an ongoing campaign of harassment, including vandalizing their homes and cars.
