California Court of Appeal

In a case concerning the elephants and elephant exhibit at the Los Angeles Zoo, alleging that the Zoo had engaged in years of egregious abuse and neglect of the elephants in its care and asserting the Zoo's conduct violated animal cruelty provisions in the Penal Code, and constituted illegal expenditures of, waste of, or injury to public funds and property, the trial court's judgment is affirmed where: 1) our decision in the first appeal was law of the case of plaintiff's right to bring a taxpayer action based on violations of certain Penal Code provisions concerning animal abuse; 2) Civil Code section 3369, which prohibits the issuance of an injunction to enforce a penal law does not apply to taxpayer suits; and 3) the trial court's injunctions concerning soil maintenance and exercise time were proper.

Appellate Information

• Published 2016/01/14

Judges

• RUBIN

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel