Estrellita – Animal Law Developments

Estrellita – Animal Law Developments - Duane Morris Blogs

Animal rights activists have pointed to a recent decision by the highest court in Ecuador — the Constitutional Court (Corte Constitucional ...

Estrellita the Woolly Monkey and the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court

Until the Constitutional Court's ruling in Estrellita's case, the rights of nature had only referred to the protection of animals considered as ...

Constitutional Court of Ecuador Recognizes Animal Rights in ...

Environmental authorities had forcibly seized the monkey on the grounds that possessing a “wild animal” is prohibited by Ecuador law. Estrellita ...

Ecuador court case on the rights of Estrellita the primate

In 2022, the Constitutional Court ruled rights of nature applies to individual animals, and a pet monkey's death constituted a rights of nature violation.

Ecuador's Constitutional Court Rules Wild Animals Are Subjects of ...

In each of these instances, the court found that Estrellita's rights were violated and that therefore the rights of nature — which protect wild ...

Ecuador's High Court Rules Wild Animals Have Legal Rights

The court announced the 7-2 verdict, effectively awarding rights to Estrellita, in a 57-page opinion released in January. The decision marks the ...

Ecuadorian Animal Rights Decision is Mixed Bag

The Court's groundbreaking ruling advances the constitutional protection of animals — ranging from the level of species to the individual animal ...

Courts Grant Legal Rights to Animals in Ecuador

The court was responding to a case brought by the owner of Estrellita, a wooly monkey kidnapped by poachers and raised as a pet. She was taught ...

Wild animals in Ecuador now have legal rights, thanks to a monkey ...

Owning wild animals is illegal in Ecuador so the pet was seized by authorities in 2019 and after being taken to a zoo she passed away. Before ...

What Happens When a Court Declares Wild Animals Legal Persons?

Proaño filed on Estrellita's behalf was accepted by Ecuador's constitutional court. The justices magistrates used the case to address the larger ...

Historic Milestone in Ecuador: Constitutional Court Recognizes ...

The amicus brief asserted that the rights of nature should protect nonhuman animals, including individual animals such as Estrellita. It argued ...

An Analysis of the Estrellita Constitutional Case from an Animal ...

... animals as subjects of rights is the most recent phase in the development of their legal protection, it does not mean that this is a finished phase free of ...

The First Country in The World Has Given Legal Rights to Individual ...

The court ruled that both the authorities and Burbano violated Estrellita's rights, the former for failing to consider her specific needs before ...

Monkeys in Their Own Right - Verfassungsblog

The Estrellita Judgement of the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court · A monkey unlawfully detained · Animals as rights holders · The right to free ...

one step forward, two steps back: the search for 'rights' in the ...

Animal rights; animal welfare; rights of nature; Ecuador; Estrellita. ... of Cruelty to Animals v Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development and Another ...

Ecuador's High Court Rules That Wild Animals Have Legal Rights

In a 57-page opinion released in January, the court ruled that Ecuador's rights of nature laws apply to wild animals like Estrellita. The court ...

Causa No. 09209202301263 - Ecuador

Furthermore, the court cited decision No. 253-20-JH/22, known as the "Estrellita" case, stating that "The rights of a wild animal must be ...

Ecuador's Top Court Applies the Rights of Nature to a Wild Animal ...

The judges found that Estrellita's rights had been violated by both Burbano and the government. Firstly by Burbano removing Estrellita from the ...

Ecuador Becomes First Country to Legally Recognize Wild Animals ...

After her death, Proaño filed a habeas corpus action on behalf of Estrellita, calling for the court to rule that the rights of the animal were ...

03/24/22: Animal Personhood, Rights of Nature, and the Estrellita ...

For the first time, the Constitutional Court of Ecuador has recognized the legal rights of nonhuman animals. The ruling not only elevates ...