Now that is justice. Awesome work.

Posted by: DaliyVeg Editor | November 9, 2007 06:38 PM

Thats amazing.
Great people.
Way to go.

Posted by: Judith, Freedom Fighter | November 9, 2007 07:37 PM

The irony XD

Posted by: Anonymous | November 9, 2007 08:16 PM

All your base are belong to us.

Posted by: Caboose, Michael J | November 9, 2007 08:19 PM

fuck covance...i wish they would have made one of those huge lottery checks representing the settlement and in the memo line written "for anti-covance billboard" ...fuckers...

:)

Posted by: Russell | November 10, 2007 09:47 AM

Princeton, New Jersey, October 17, 2005 — Covance today achieved a successful settlement to its lawsuit against PETA, in which PETA agreed to a ban on conducting any infiltration of Covance for five years. In addition, PETA's operative, Lisa Leitten, accepted a three-year ban on infiltrating any commercial animal research facility worldwide. PETA and Leitten must also provide all video footage and written notes taken from Covance. The settlement was confirmed by the Circuit Court of Fairfax County, which entered an order requiring PETA and Leitten to comply with these requirements.

"This resolution achieves our key goals of the lawsuit: to obtain a ban on infiltration and to demonstrate that Covance will not tolerate such unlawful acts by those who seek to block important biomedical research," said James Lovett, Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Covance. "The strength of our case enabled us to achieve these goals quickly via this settlement."

"Our business is devoted to helping develop new medicines for diseases such as breast cancer, diabetes, leukemia, Alzheimer's, heart disease and HIV/AIDS," said Lovett. "The research we perform is essential to ensuring that these medicines are safe and effective before they are made available to patients."

Posted by: Mars | November 10, 2007 12:54 PM

I assume that you are now going out of business? (No available staff on week-ends?).

I will pay for the most prominate sign that you can display in South Carolina -- within reason, of course.

You could never imagine the incessent hell that I am still ungergoing from the Hollywild Demonstrations in Spartanburg, S.C. (false charges, false prosecutation, and so on -- with which they have yet to break me); even with the best attorney money can buy, here.

So, I have less to lose and more to give -- yes I can be a pain in the Butt; but I have less to lose, and I continue to beat them at their own game in other -- trumped-up attempts to undermine and vilify me.

My continuing thanks for your on-going efforts and success.

JWK

Posted by: John W. Kimbrell | November 10, 2007 05:12 PM

Perfect!! They put a face on science! Sorry to the little guy and what nightmare life he had to go through but at least now we can say it wasn't all in vein.

Posted by: Carla | November 11, 2007 10:31 AM

i'm eric. joining a couple boards and looking
forward to participating. hehe unless i get
too distracted!

eric

Posted by: xztheericzx | November 11, 2007 01:23 PM

Great billboard!!!!

Posted by: Ana | November 11, 2007 03:24 PM

that is Sooooooo cool, covance needs to pay!!!, and so far peta is doing a good job

Posted by: Tyler | November 11, 2007 06:30 PM

Hah, love it.

Posted by: K | November 11, 2007 11:07 PM

Amazing! Thats right assholes, pay up for your own demise!

Posted by: Eric | November 12, 2007 12:03 PM

To counter Mars' copy-and-paste from the Covance website:

"Covance was fined by the USDA in 2006 for Animal Welfare Act violations at five Covance facilities -- in Berkeley, Calif.; Denver, Pa.; and three unidentified sites.

An outbreak of TB in five monkeys occurred here (Madison, WI) in June 2006 even though the monkeys had been quarantined upon arrival into the U.S."

Covance Propaganda: ""The research we perform is essential to ensuring that these medicines are safe and effective before they are made available to patients."

The Truth:
The GAO (Government Accountability Office) reports that 51% of new drugs have serious, undetected adverse effects at the time of approval.

HMOs (health maintenance organizations) spend more treating ADRs (adverse drug reactions) than on drugs.

Posted by: Mike Quinoa | November 12, 2007 02:13 PM

Wonderful work PETA,
wonderful work.
Judith

Posted by: Judith, Freedom Fighter | November 12, 2007 03:55 PM

Simple and effective.

Posted by: BrandonXVX | November 12, 2007 08:53 PM

Instead of gullible MARS comforting itself by swallowing a pack of lies about animal-testing that are spewed out by those who are obsessed with nothing more than greed and therefore offers baseless "facts," IT should go to this topic's link "dismissal," and read "Alternatives: testing without torture."
There's nothing like having some REAL education that offers REAL FACTS.
On the other hand, it would be consistent with someone who is unconscienable not to care and not have respect for ALL life -animal and human animal- to want to know or admit to the TRUTH about animal-testing.

Posted by: Ariel | November 13, 2007 08:11 AM

In case you didn't catch it, Covance didn't pay PETA a dime.Covance paid the $80,000. Court Fees and each side paid their own attornies fees,ect..Only PETA would claim making money when they lost money.The settlement papers can be viewed through a link at the Covance website.

Posted by: Mars | November 13, 2007 08:16 AM

JWK,
Your post is very interesting. I "think" I can understand what you are referring to in general, without knowing the exact details. And if my understanding is correct, then stay strong and keep up the good fight! You are not alone.

Posted by: Ariel | November 13, 2007 08:26 AM

Given that the US now consider environmentalists and animal rights people "domestic terrorists" and a bigger threat than jihadists and Right wing nut jobs like Tim McVeigh, it's no wonder Covence won their suit here. BUT:

Victory for PETA Europe:
Covance Drops Lawsuit; Video of Appalling Abuse of Monkeys to Be Shown Worldwide; Company's False Assurance of Good Welfare Practices Exposed
For 11 months, an investigator from PETA US worked as a technician inside the Vienna, Virginia, Covance laboratory, where she documented workers who were striking, choking, taunting and deliberately tormenting terrified monkeys. Covance sought an injunction and was able to get a court order temporarily preventing PETA Europe from showing the undercover footage from inside the Covance animal-testing facility in the United States. On 16 June, His Honour Judge Langan handed down judgement in the case for injunctive relief brought by Covance Laboratories against PETA Europe Ltd, dismissing the case and calling the arguments against granting an interim injunction "cumulative and, in my judgment, overwhelming". Furthermore, PETA Europe was awarded £145,000 in court costs. Covance Laboratories considered appealing this decision, but PETA Europe's case was so strong that the company withdrew its appeal request and dropped the entire lawsuit before it was brought in front of the Appeal Court judges. Covance will now be responsible for paying PETA Europe's additional legal costs.

Posted by: janice | November 13, 2007 03:31 PM

Janice

You forget. The REAL terrorists are the U.S Govt of today.

Posted by: Caboose (Combine Slayer) | November 13, 2007 08:27 PM

AWESOME WORK. THIS COMPANY NEEDS TO BE PUT OUT OF THE SEVERE TORTURE BUSINESS AND SEND A MESSAGE TO ALL OTHER TORTURE COMPANIES TO WATCH OUT!! !!!!

Posted by: carolyn | November 13, 2007 10:25 PM

Mars,

The bottom line is Covance were the ones who initiated the lawsuit against PETA UK, and Covance ended up getting spanked. And it cost them a few quid in the process.

Posted by: Mike Quinoa | November 14, 2007 07:07 PM

I want to know what kind of people work for a company like this...here's a scenario in someone's life working for Covance:

Honey, how was your day at work?

Oh, nothing special, I put some electrodes in a primate's brain and watched it suffer.

I would like to meet people like this and have a face to face!

Posted by: Vegoconics | November 15, 2007 02:16 PM

Mike

what about the 49%?

Posted by: Caboose (Combine Slayer) | November 15, 2007 08:23 PM

If there is anyone that was
not sickened by the PETA
videos taken at Covance in Virginia, they must work for
Covance. While research is
important, cruelty and an
indifference to any animal
is beyond comprehension.

Posted by: Shrek | July 3, 2008 03:37 PM