{"id":6,"date":"2006-05-08T19:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T03:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2006-05-08T19:59:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-09T03:59:00","slug":"ontario-constitutional-challenge-may-15-and-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/ontario-constitutional-challenge-may-15-and-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Constitutional Challenge &#8211; May 15 and 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Press release from Clayton Ruby on May 8 announcing the dates for the constitutional challenge.<br \/><span class=\"fullpost\"><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><b>PRESS ADVISORY<\/b><\/div>\n<p>What?: Constitutional Challenge to Ontario&#8217;s Pit Bull Legislation<\/p>\n<p>Where?: Superior Court of Justice, Toronto, Ontario<\/p>\n<p>When?: Monday, May 15, 2006 and Tuesday, May 16, 2006, beginning at 10:00 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Why?: Because Canadians do not imprison dog owners based on vague and overbroad legislation<\/p>\n<p>On August 29, 2005 new amendments to the <i>Dog Owners&#8217; Liability Act <\/i>came into effect banning the ownership of pit bulls in Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Catherine Cochrane, with the support of the Banned Aid Coalition, filed an application seeking to strike down the new law as unconstitutional. Ms Cochrane is represented by Clayton Ruby.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, May 15 and Tuesday, May 16, 2006 the constitutional challenge will be heard at the Superior Court of Justice in Toronto, Ontario beginning at 10:00 a.m. Mr. Ruby will argue that the law is vague and overbroad.<\/p>\n<p>FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR IF YOU&#8217;D LIKE A COPY OF THE APPLICANT&#8217;S WRITTEN ARGUMENT THAT WILL BE BEFORE THE COURT, PLEASE CONTACT CAROLINE WAWZONEK AT RUBY &amp; EDWARDH AT 416-964-9664<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press release from Clayton Ruby on May 8 announcing the dates for the constitutional challenge. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRESS ADVISORY What?: Constitutional Challenge to Ontario&#8217;s Pit Bull Legislation Where?: Superior Court of Justice, Toronto, Ontario When?: Monday, May 15, 2006 and Tuesday, May 16, 2006,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation","category-news","category-ontario"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}