Nonhuman Rights Project Loses Another Habeas Case for Elephants

The Elephant Who Could Be a Person - The Atlantic

The Nonhuman Rights Project argues that no elephant should live in solitary confinement in a one-acre enclosure. Wise is sure he knows how Happy ...

197 Conn. App. 353 MAY, 2020 353 - Connecticut Judicial Branch

Nonhuman Rights Project, Inc. v. R.W. Commerford & Sons, Inc. habeas corpus relief. It concluded that ''the elephants. —who are incapable ...

Will Colorado Allow Elephants to Sue? | Mind Matters

Animal-rights activists never quit. The Nonhuman Rights Project, having lost cases seeking writs of habeas corpus for chimpanzees and an ...

Bronx Zoo Issues Statement on Happy the Elephant Court Ruling

“We are pleased with the Bronx County Supreme Court's decision today to dismiss the Nonhuman Rights Project's petition. ... habeas corpus to ...

Tina is a female Asian elephant... - Nonhuman Rights Project

The Los Angeles Zoo's elephant program has been a source of controversy for decades, with a lawsuit alleging cruelty to the elephants, multiple attempts by the ...

The Elephant In The (Court)Room - ProfSpeak

Since 2018, Happy has been involved in what has been called the most important animal-rights case of the 21st century. In 2018, the Nonhuman ...

Beulah, Karen, and Minnie | Nonhuman Rights Project

Wise tells the Court that the NhRP's elephant rights case is the first time in 350 years a Connecticut court has dismissed a habeas corpus petition because the ...

Happy the elephant had her day in court. We humans are better for it.

Last week, the New York Court of Appeals voted 5 to 2 rejecting the argument brought by an animal rights group that an elephant at the Bronx Zoo ...

The animal rights elephant in the room – Ohio Ag Net

If the judge granted the habeas petition to move Happy from the zoo to a sanctuary, in the eyes of the law, she would be a person. She would ...

Animal rights group loses appeal to free elephant from Bronx Zoo

The Nonhuman Rights Project asked the First Department, Appellate Division to grant the 49-year-old Asian pachyderm freedom by a “writ of habeas ...

Happy the Elephant Isn't Legally a Person, Top New York Court Rules

An advocacy group had argued that the elephant was being illegally detained at the Bronx Zoo, in a case involving ethical questions about the ...

When is an animal — or even an AI — a person? - Vox

The Nonhuman Rights Project, the animal rights nonprofit that brought the case on behalf of Happy, sought to transfer her from the zoo to a ...

NhRP Petition for for Writ of Habeas Corpus for Three Elephants ...

In the matter of a Petition for a Common Law Writ of Habeas Corpus,. NONHUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT, INC., on behalf of BEULAH, MINNIE, and KAREN, ...

IN RE: NONHUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT (2022) - FindLaw Caselaw

The question before us on this appeal is whether petitioner Nonhuman Rights Project may seek habeas corpus relief on behalf of Happy, an elephant residing at ...

Nonhuman Rights Project's Post - LinkedIn

Other elephants were all around us, and I felt safe. The ... Elephants in this historic case for nonhuman rights. Follow the case ...

Judge: no 'personhood' and relocation of CM Zoo elephants

An animal rights group's lawsuit accusing Cheyenne Mountain Zoo of illegally confining and neglecting its five elderly African elephants, and demanding they be ...

The Nonhuman Rights Project, Inc. v. Breheny | 2020 N.Y. Slip Op ...

This is a habeas corpus proceeding brought by Petitioner, the NhRP on behalf of Happy, a 48 year old Asian elephant situated in the Bronx Zoo, New York.

Does Happy the Elephant Deserve the Same Rights as a Human?

To do that, the activists are relying on the writ of habeas corpus, a legal protection for imprisoned people. In 2022, the New York Court of ...

An Elephant Is Not a Legal Person, New York Court Rules in High ...

In a 5-2 decision, the New York Court of Appeals rejected a lawsuit filed on behalf of the 51-year-old elephant from the Nonhuman Rights Project ...

Fight Over Happy the Elephant's 'Personhood' Jumps to NY Appeals ...

In court, the Nonhuman Rights Project, led by lawyer and founder Steven Wise, began arguing in 2018 that Happy should be given personage ...