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Two Chimpanzees Given the Right for Writ of Habeas Corpus as Legal Persons

Summary: Two chimpanzees used at a university for biomedical tests have been given the status of legal persons for a…

Summary: Duke Law named the vice provost for faculty affairs at the University of Virginia as the new dean of…

Summary: An animal rights group is suing for elephants being kept at the Connecticut Zoo to receive legal personhood. An…

Summary: The Nonhuman Rights Project has been working to obtain the legal rights of personhood for a pair of locked…

Summary: The Whanganui River in New Zealand was granted the legal status of a person in order to protect the…

Summary: A New York judge has ruled that, for purposes of habeas corpus, chimpanzees are not legal persons. A New…

Summary: An orangutan being held in a Buenos Aires zoo has been freed by a court ruling. An Argentine zoo…

Summary: A New York appeals court has ruled that a chimpanzee should not have legal "personhood." According to LiveScience.com, yesterday,…

Steven Wise originally hoped to file lawsuits on behalf of seven chimpanzees being held in captivity. Steven Wise, author of…

Not only is Donna Aldea, the Queens district attorney’s counsel for special litigation especially competent and therefore desirable – Barket,…

On Monday, a three-judge panel at the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that although the petition of the…

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has stated that it affirms it's earlier decision to deny a…