Wiles Farm owner Ken Wiles, his son Joe Wiles, and Wiles Farm employee Dusty Stroud were arraigned this afternoon in Wayne County Municipal court on 10 misdemeanor counts of cruelty to animals. All defendants have entered pleas of not guilty and are free on their own recognizance. Defendant Joe Wiles, charged with six of the ten counts of animal cruelty including “mutilating and killing animals by hangings, using inappropriate gun shots ... depriving pigs of basic veterinary care, food, and water ... beating animals to death with hammers,” entered a not guilty plea on January 25th with a trail date set for March 14th.
“Striving for justice,” huh? In an unpublished opinion, CA’s 2nd Appellate has affirmed the trial court’s decision to deny Farm Sanctuary standing to sue CorcPork under the Business and Professions Code section of the Unfair Competition Law. As you may remember, the decision in the original case hinged upon the applicability of an amended version of Proposition 64. In a nutshell, Prop 64 + no person showing actual monetary or property damage = you can’t sue CorcPork. Unpublished opinions only hang around the web site for 60 days after they’ve been…put up there (we were gonna say “published” but that didn’t make any sense). Grab it from us if the drive-thru window is closed.
Neither down nor out, the ALDF/EBAA v. Clougherty Packing/Farmer John/CorcPork action, with plaintiffs alleging actual monetary damages, moves forward as Case Number SCV-240050 in the Superior Court of Sonoma County. Plaintiffs are represented by Evans & Page in San Francisco. We’ve got $ on this one.
We wonder—will CorcPorkers again allege that plaintiffs lack standing because CorcPork has been confining pigs in crates since 1989 and the statute of limitations has run out, and that Penal Code section 597t is “unconstitutionally vague,” and that even it if is constitutional, it doesn’t apply to them anyways? Somebody take a swat at those last two, puh-lease.
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