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MONTH: March 2006
Lousiana Supreme Court allows local cockfighting ban
NEW ORLEANS––Cockfighting is legal in Louisiana because no state law says it isn’t. However, since no law expressly authorizes it either, Caddo Parish has the right to ban it, the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled on January 19.
“The decision overturned a district court order which kept Sheriff Steve Prator from enforcing the parish animal cruelty ordinance,” wrote Janet McConnaughey of Associated Press. “The parish ban was passed in 1987, but Prator said it had never been enforced until numerous complaints about cockfights at the Piney Woods Game Club and the Ark-La-Tex Game Club Inc. prompted him to look into the parish laws.”
The clubs sued, arguing that parrots and canaries are the only birds covered by the state anti-cruelty law. Ark-La-Tex secretary Drena Nix told McConnaughey that she expects to sue again, since her club was given a business license when opened in 1997.