Summary: The Nonhuman Rights Project has been working to obtain the legal rights of personhood for a pair of locked up chimpanzees...
Summary: A New York judge has ruled that, for purposes of habeas corpus, chimpanzees are not legal persons. A New York judge...
Summary: Two chimpanzees used at a university for biomedical tests have been given the status of legal persons for a cause and...
Summary: A New York appeals court has ruled that a chimpanzee should not have legal “personhood.” According to LiveScience.com, yesterday, a New...
Summary:Â In a very interesting case, a lawyer from Boston is fighting for ‘legal personhood’ for chimpanzees in the state of New...
Summary: An orangutan being held in a Buenos Aires zoo has been freed by a court ruling. An Argentine zoo has to...
Summary: An animal rights group is suing for elephants being kept at the Connecticut Zoo to receive legal personhood. An animal rights...
