Nonhuman Rights Project Loses Another Habeas Case for Elephants

The court held that neither the elephants nor NhRP had standing to sue and, even if they did, the petition did not make a prima facie showing ...

Statement on Denial of California Habeas Corpus Petition

13, 2023, the California Supreme Court denied the habeas corpus petition the Nonhuman Rights Project filed in August on behalf of three ...

Colorado's Historic Case for Elephant Rights

On October 24, 2024, the Colorado Supreme Court will examine the injustice of how we view nonhuman animals. As the first case of its kind in ...

Protect The Harvest | Nonhuman Rights Project Loses Another ...

NhRP has used the common law and statutory writ of habeas corpus in an effort to “liberate” elephants and apes from various U.S. zoos and other facilities. None ...

Nonhuman Rights Project – Animal Law Developments

Tag: Nonhuman Rights Project · Nonhuman Rights Project Loses Another Habeas Case for Elephants · Oregon Court of Appeals Rules Animals Are Not Entitled to Legal ...

An Update: Our Continued Fight on Behalf of our Beloved Elephants

24, the Colorado Supreme Court will hear oral arguments from Cheyenne Mountain Zoo's legal counsel and the NonHuman Rights Project (NhRP) on the ...

'The court simply refused to extend to Happy the elephant the ...

The Nonhuman Rights Project aimed to show that even though Happy the elephant is the property of the zoo under property law, and that the zoo is ...

Nonhuman Rights Project v. Cheyenne Mountain Zoo

Second, habeas corpus has never been made available to nonhuman animals by any English-speaking court; in other words, there is no precedent ...

Nonhuman Rights Project Just Can't Take a Strongly-Worded Legal ...

The Nonhuman Rights Project continues its legal battle for "personhood" rights for elephants, filing a lawsuit against Cheyenne Mountain ...

Nonhuman Rights Project, Inc., ex rel. Happy v. Breheny

New York Court of Appeals Rejects Extending Writ of Habeas Corpus to Elephant. ... Elephant is not the new Black. Happy, a fifty-one-year-old ...

Challenging the speciesist status quo - Nonhuman Rights Project

The Nonhuman Rights Project's Colorado litigation on behalf of Jambo, Kimba, LouLou, Lucky, and Missy, five female African elephants ...

Nonhuman Rights Project, Inc. v. Breheny :: 2022 :: New York Court ...

habeas corpus relief on behalf of Happy, an elephant residing at the Bronx Zoo, in order to secure her transfer to an elephant sanctuary.

Happy the elephant loses legal bid for human rights - E&E News

The landmark challenge by the Nonhuman Rights Project had sought a writ of habeas corpus securing Happy's transfer to an elephant sanctuary.

habeas corpus – Animal Law Developments - Duane Morris Blogs

Tag: habeas corpus · Nonhuman Rights Project Loses Another Habeas Case for Elephants · Denial of Habeas Relief for Bronx Zoo Elephant Affirmed on ...

Petition filed against Cheyenne Mountain Zoo by an animal rights ...

In his decision, Judge Eric Bentley dismissed the case against the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo because the elephants being of nonhuman species did not ...

Nonhuman Rights Project, Inc. v. R.W. Commerford & Sons, Inc.

The petitioner, Nonhuman Rights Project, Inc., appeals from the judgment of the habeas court dismissing its petition for a writ of habeas corpus that it sought ...

Statement on Dismissal of Colorado Habeas Corpus Petition

Below is a statement from the Nonhuman Rights Project on the decision issued by District Court Judge Eric Bentley on Dec.

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 ...

How the Nonhuman Rights Project is meeting this moment

We proceeded with the case in Tommy's memory, petitioning for writs of habeas corpus on behalf of Louie and six other chimpanzees also ...

Civil rights group seeks hearing in California's highest court on ...

The NhRP has secured the world's first habeas hearings on behalf of nonhuman animals in its New York chimpanzee and elephant rights cases. In ...