Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2010
Abstract
In Simpson v. City of Los Angeles, resident taxpayers who owned licensed dogs who had recently gone astray sought to restrain the enforcement of a city ordinance. Los Angeles Municipal Code section 53.11 (h) allowed the city to surrender for medical research dogs that had been impounded for a period of at least five days. Subsection (h) of the ordinance did not contain any provision for notice to the owner of the impounded dog. As a result, plaintiffs contended that the ordinance was invalid because it constituted an unlawful taking of private property.
Recommended Citation
Kosel, Janice E., "Carter’s Dissent in Simpson v. City of Los Angeles: A Precursor to the Animal Rights Movement" (2010). Publications. 180.
https://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/pubs/180
Comments
Chapter 13 in “The Great Dissents of the 'Lone Dissenter': Justice Jesse W. Carter's Twenty Tumultuous Years on the California Supreme Court,” Oppenheimer, David & Allan Brotsky, eds. (Carolina Academic Press, 2010). Posted with permission from Carolina Academic Press. All rights reserved.