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. The court rejected ...

Happy - Nonhuman Rights Project

The First Department issues its decision, denying habeas corpus relief to Happy and choosing not to correct the serious errors of law the Court made in its 2017 ...

NRP Continues to Misuse the Writ of Habeas Corpus, Potentially ...

The lawyers advocating for Happy, an Asian elephant at the Bronx Zoo, are encouraged that the Court of Appeals of the State of New York will affirm the ...

Happy Days? The Bronx Zoo's star attraction is a tough case for ...

According to the New York Court of Appeals in their June 14 ruling, Happy the Elephant is not a human and the use of habeas corpus cannot apply to her ...

Bronx Zoo's Happy the Elephant Not a Legal Person, Court Rules

The New York Court of Appeals ruled that Happy the elephant at the Bronx Zoo is not a legal person. Attorneys said the zoo's 265 acres are ...

Bronx Zoo's Happy the elephant is not a legal person, court rules

After years of back-and-forth legal exchanges, New York's top court ruled Tuesday that although Happy and all elephants are “intelligent beings ...

Happy the elephant isn't a person, top New York court rules - Reddit

New York's top court on Tuesday rejected an effort to free Happy the elephant from the Bronx Zoo, ruling in a closely watched case that she ...

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

An Asian elephant named Happy that has been at the Bronx Zoo for more than 40 years will remain there after New York's highest court ruled on Tuesday that she ...

Where's Happy? The mystery surrounding Bronx Zoo's famous ...

In recent weeks, rampant social media speculation has questioned the elephant's condition and whereabouts, with the zoo finally releasing a ...

Should elephants have the same rights as people? A court may decide

The lawsuit is similar ...

Bronx Zoo elephant named Happy is not a person, a court rules - NPR

The 5-2 decision by the court comes in a closely watched case that tested the boundaries of applying human rights to animals.

Court rejects civil rights group's effort to free elephant in Bronx Zoo ...

Lauren Choplin, a spokeswoman for the Nonhuman Rights Project, said in a statement to CNN that the decision is a loss for Happy, but that the ...

Bronx Zoo elephant Happy spotted in public for first time in weeks

The drama began in mid-July when the NhRP sounded alarms over Happy's apparent disappearance from the public eye. In a July 31 statement, the ...

Happy the elephant is not a person, court rules - ABC News

Happy, an elephant living at the Bronx Zoo, has been ruled to not be a person.

Bronx Zoo's Happy the Elephant Hasn't Been Seen in Two Weeks ...

The Nonhuman Rights Project in 2022 lost a legal case in New York in which it argued that Happy deserved a habeas corpus proceeding, where a ...

Bronx Zoo elephant named Happy isn't a person, court rules

New York's top court on Tuesday rejected an effort to free Happy the elephant from the Bronx Zoo, ruling that she does not meet the ...

Court to decide whether Happy the elephant deserves basic human ...

The court will likely issue a decision in the next four to six weeks, representatives of both the NhRP and Bronx Zoo told CNN. The NhRP's legal ...

Happy the elephant is not a person, New York's highest court rules

The ruling rejected an effort to move the Bronx Zoo elephant to a sanctuary—and ended the furthest-advancing animal rights case in U.S. ...

NY court decides elephant not a person, in case involving Bronx Zoo

New York's highest court ruled Tuesday that Happy the Bronx Zoo elephant is not a legal person and is not entitled to any human rights.

Happy the elephant is not a person, cannot be 'illegally confined' to ...

The court ruled that a writ of habeas corpus is intended to protect the liberty of human beings and does not apply to elephants · Advocates from ...