A Puerto Rico cockfighting club said Nov. 19 it would ask the First Circuit to block the pending federal ban on the commonwealth’s “national sport,” after a judge refused to step in despite island-wide opposition to the law.
The cockfighting ban, which passed last year as part of the 2018 farm bill, is set to take effect Dec. 1.
The lawsuit blasted it as a paternalistic, unconstitutional assault on a cherished tradition and “cultural right of ...
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