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/PRNewswire/ -- For the first time, the Constitutional Court of Ecuador has recognized the legal rights of nonhuman animals. The ruling not only elevates the...
Steven M. Wise—founder and president of the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP); an attorney, author, and legal scholar, Wise is leading NhRP’s pioneering effort to free an elephant named Happy from the Bronx Zoo through a writ of habeas corpus, aiming to change her status from “thing” to “legal person”—reviews in a "Talking Animals" interview this week NhRP’s legal gambit when we previously spoke in 2013, when the organization was focusing its efforts on chimpanzees.
The New York Court of Appeals agreed to hear a case involving Happy the elephant, who's been living at the Bronx Zoo since 2002
/PRNewswire/ -- The Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) announced today that the New York Court of Appeals—one of the most influential state courts in the United...