Founded in 1979, the Animal Legal Defense Fund has used lawsuits to try to push the boundaries of how the law treats animals. Its ultimate goals include legal recognition of rights for great apes. It has a web site at
http://www.aldf.org/.
As a nonprofit, the Animal Legal Defense Fund is required to file a Form 990 with the Internal Revenue Service detailing its income and expenditures. This site has copies of ALDF's Form 990 for the following years,
Articles about the ALDF on this site:
The fledgling field of animal rights law gets a big shot in the arm courtesy of Harvard Law School.
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