Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) is a United States federal law (Pub.L. 109-374; 18 U.S.C.
43) that prohibits any person from using force, violence, or threats for the purpose of damaging or interfering with the operations of an animal enterprise. The law does not "prohibit any expressive conduct (including peaceful picketing or other peaceful demonstration) protected from legal prohibition by the First Amendment to the Constitution." The law was originally introduced in the 109th Congress by Thomas Petri (R-WI) and Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and James Inhofe (R-OK). The final version of the bill, S. 3880.