Consumer Law
A Saipan Man Files a Lawsuit Challenging the Ban on Cockfighting in US Territories
A man’s lawsuit in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands is the latest challenge to a ban against cockfighting in U.S. territories.
An animal welfare group says the lawsuit has no chance of success because of how similar lawsuits in Guam and Puerto Rico have fared.
Saipan resident Andrew Sablan Salas, who served in the House of Representatives in the commonwealth’s Legislature and previously was Secretary of Commerce in the territory, said in a lawsuit filed last week in federal court that he’s been involved in cockfighting since childhood.
