Most courts of appeals determined that only parts of the act were unconstitutional but the Sixth District Appellate Court stuck down the entire law, including the parts on animal fighting and bestiality.

The result? People in Erie, Fulton, Huron, Lucas, Ottawa, Sandusky, Williams and Wood counties currently cannot be prosecuted for violating the bestiality law. Likewise, they’d face lesser penalties for violating the animal fighting law.