Animal rights activists, who conditionally pled guilty to conspiring to violate the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, have appealed a federal district court’s ruling in their case and renewed their challenge against the law’s constitutionality.

Kevin Johnson and Tyler Lang were indicted in 2014 after they released about 2,000 minks from cages, “destroyed the minks’ breeding cards (necessary for their sale to a furrier), poured caustic substances over two farm vehicles, and spray painted the words ‘Liberation is Love’ on a barn,” according to the appeal. ...

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