HSUS Faces $5 Million Federal Lawsuit Related to Illegal Raid

Now the Humane Society of the United States faces three federal lawsuits. We've told you about the widower Norman Pang's legal complaint against HSUS and some of its “raid team” members following a raid on Pang's Hawaii property. And the Ringling circus filed a federal racketeering lawsuit against HSUS and other groups in February following a judge's ruling that the animal rights group engaged in a pay-to-play scheme involving a witness.

Now HSUS is among the defendands in a $5 million lawsuit related to last year's illegal raid of South Dakota dog breeder Dan Christensen. He filed the suit against HSUS, the Second Chance Rescue Center, and officials in Turner County, according to KELO-TV.

HSUS, with now-former employee Scotlund Haisley, assisted the Second Chance Rescue in raiding Christensen’s property last September, seizing 173 dogs that they alleged were being mistreated. But a judge ruled in January that the search warrant used in the raid was wrongfully obtained and that the animal control officer “intentionally misled the issuing court by omitting material information in her affidavits and supplemental testimony.” (The judge found that “the warrants were largely executed by agents from the Humane Society of the United States” and two animal control officers.)
All of the charges against Christensen were dropped. And in May a judge ordered dogs illegally seized by HSUS and Second Chance to be returned to Christensen, their rightful owner. In the meantime, 28 dogs had died under the care of Second Chance Rescue and others had become sick while in the organization's care. And there stil isn't any evidence (other than HSUS's sensationalized media quotes) that the animals were anything but well-cared-for.

Has HSUS finally gotten itself stuck in a legal quagmire that it can’t get out of? Will its 30-plus lawyers be focused on diffusing yet another scandal, or will HSUS spend even more of its donors' money on outside counsel? Time will tell.
Posted on 09/08/2010 at 04:50 PM by the HumaneWatch Team


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they need to give them tree hugging fucks the RICO lolz!

 

HSUS have about $100million budget and bring in approx $100mill/year.

$5mill is peanuts to them but it would be good victories for the people filing the lawsuits.

 

Screw HSUS hope they get fucked with all the wrong they do to people & animals

 

a small victory but hopefully something to build on...

 

it wont even make a dent, they can afford it! good shit to dude that gets the 5 mill tho! id upgrade the yard, buy a house (& buy mom & gramma a house), sit pretty wit a middle finger to those bastards!