On November 19, 2020, the First Judicial Department, Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Court heard oral argument, remotely, regarding the Nonhuman Rights Project’s (the “Project”) appeal of the dismissal of their habeas corpus petition filed to establish personhood status for Happy an elephant housed at the Bronx Zoo. The purported purpose
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The Nonhuman Rights Project Takes Another Stab At Tommy, The Chimpanzee
By Nancy E. Halpern, D.V.M. on
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) filed another petition for a writ of habeas corpus (available of NhRP’s website) to:
a) require Respondents to justify their detention of a chimpanzee named Tommy,
b) order Tommy’s immediate discharge, and
c) order Tommy’s transfer to an appropriate primate sanctuary, which the NhRP suggests is
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