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Article: The decompression of the sheep
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- Isthmus
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- August 28, 2009
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Alliance for Animals says UW researchers are violating the law
In early 2006, Leslie Hamilton spoke to a UW Veterinary School class about animals and the law. Afterward, one student approached her to say he had, as a parttime lab assistant, witnessed decompression experiments involving sheep.
"He was very bothered by it," recalls Hamilton, an attorney and member of the local Alliance for Animals.
Hamilton made an open records request seeking necropsy reports on sheep who had died. The UW refused on various grounds, including "trade secrets." The state Attorney General's Office declined to get involved. Sighs Hamilton, "We had to let it drop."
Then, last December, Alliance member Ann Emerson ...