Boston Globe exclusive: Animal welfare advocates sue government over treatment of research primates

On July 9, 2020, Harvard’s Animal Law & Policy Clinic filed a lawsuit against the USDA on behalf of the New England Anti-Vivisection Society and the Animal Legal Defense Fund for failure to protect primates used in biomedical research.

Student Brett Richey ’21, who took the lead on the case, supported by clinic director Katherine Meyer, is quoted in a Boston Globe exclusive about the case.

“We are bringing this case to compel the USDA to put in place clear, enforceable laws that will ease the burden of suffering on non-human primates, some of our closest relatives in the animal kingdom,” she said.

Read the Complaint.