AR-News: (US-la) Feds: New cockfighting laws don't discriminate

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The federal government says Cajuns and Hispanics are
not discriminated against by the enactment of new laws that tighten the
noose on the $1 billion cockfighting industry.

U.S. attorneys filed a brief on Friday in Lafayette federal court
defending laws that allow authorities to punish people who ship fighting
birds across state lines or out of the country.

The United Gamefowl Breeders Association, a national cockfighting group,
sued the government last May. The group is arguing that the laws trample
on the rights of New Mexico and Louisiana -- the last two states where
cockfighting is legal -- and discriminate against people from cultures
that accept cockfighting. 

full story:
http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/newsflash/get_story.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?n3471_BC_LA--CockfightingLawsu&&news&newsflash-louisiana

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