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Plaintiffs With Fins? The Legal Rights of Oil Spill?s Animal Victims

By Dionne Searcey

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There are no laws that exist simply to protect animal interests because U.S. law generally treats animals as property. But lawyers are trying to find ways to sue BP for harming animals over the oil spill in the Gulf.

Full post as published by Law Blog - WSJ.com on May 28, 2010 (boomark / email).

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