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NY Court Hears Question of Personhood for Nonhumans

October 9, 2014

Yesterday, I attended the appellate hearing in the case of Nonhuman Rights Project v. Tommy, a suit filed by the NRP to free a chimp from captivity by means of a writ of habeus corpus. I filed an amicus brief opposing the writ on legal, practical and ethical grounds. A...

Amicus Brief Filed to Oppose Writ of Habeas Corpus for Chimps

May 15, 2014

Earlier today, I filed an amicus brief in opposition to a lawsuit by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NRP) to release a chimp from captivity in upstate New York -- not pursuant to existing laws governing the mistreatment of animals, but on the novel basis that the chimps a...

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