Article updated to include new motion filed on behalf of elephants Beulah, Karen, and Minnie and the landmark opinion issued by New York Court of Appeals judge, Eugene M. Fahey in the case of […]
Lawyers from the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) in the United States have filed a motion for permission to appeal in the cases of captive chimpanzees Tommy and Kiko, and a group of prominent philosophers¹ have submitted […]
Article has been updated (new motion filed on 18/4/2018). Lawyers from the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) in the United States have filed a motion to reargue in their battle to obtain a writ of […]
A judge in the United States has dismissed the world’s first petition for a common law writ of habeas corpus filed on behalf of elephants, but the lawyers remain undeterred and say […]
The US-based Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) has filed the world’s first petition for a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of elephants. The NhRP lawyers are demanding that “in accordance with state […]
Update at the end of this article. A bear named Chucho has been granted a writ of habeas corpus in Colombia in a landmark case that is encouraging lawyers who are fighting […]
Lawyer Steven Wise will be heading into a New York courtroom again today (Thursday) to argue that chimpanzees should be recognised as legal persons. Wise is the president of the Nonhuman Rights […]
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