{"id":815,"date":"2006-07-18T09:02:54","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T13:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/07\/18\/marineland-drops-libel-suit\/"},"modified":"2006-07-18T09:02:54","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T13:02:54","slug":"marineland-drops-libel-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/18\/marineland-drops-libel-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Marineland drops libel suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?352\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A three-year legal battle between Marineland and a local animal rights group has come to an end.<\/p>\n<p>Marineland of Canada filed a notice of libel suit in July 2003 claiming $250,000 in punitive damages against Niagara Action for Animals.<\/p>\n<p>The proceedings were dropped by Marineland in May and official notification was made Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re happy and relieved the lawsuit is over,&#8221; said Daniel Wilson, NAFA public education director.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit stemmed from a letter NAFA sent in 2001 to a Niagara Falls car dealership, which was planning a Christmas party at the amusement park.<\/p>\n<p>The letter outlined the group&#8217;s concerns over Marineland&#8217;s practice of keeping whales and dolphins in captivity.<\/p>\n<p>The party went ahead as scheduled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: A three-year legal battle between Marineland and a local animal rights group has come to an end. Marineland of Canada filed a notice of libel suit in July 2003 claiming $250,000 in punitive damages against Niagara Action for Animals. The proceedings were dropped by Marineland in May and official notification&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}