Washington Examiner
When leaders of the animal rights movement agreed May 15 to pay $15.7 million to America’s most famous circus, it seemed to be the end of the 14-year-old case.
After all, at the case’s conclusion, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Emmet G. Sullivan bluntly described the suit brought by the animal rights groups as “groundless and unreasonable from its inception.”