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U.S. justices question animal cruelty video law: Law, aimed at videos, said to violate free-speech rights

A U.S. law that makes it a crime to sell videos of animals being tortured or killed may be too broad as it possibly covers documentary films and depictions of hunting or bullfights, Supreme Court justices said on Tuesday.

A majority of the nine-member high court seemed sympathetic to the argument that the 1999 animal cruelty law infringed on free-speech protections guaranteed by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Congress adopted the law in an attempt to stop people from profiting by the interstate sale of depictions of torture and killing of animals. It mainly was aimed at videos in which women in high-heeled shoes crush small animals as a type of sexual fetish.

Opponents of the law argued that its reach was too wide, making videos of blood sports and even documentaries illegal.

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