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Comments on the Chimpanzee Habeas Case
The case of the day is Nonhuman Rights Project, Inc. ex rel. Tommy v. Lavery (N.Y. App. Div. 2017). This is the second in my occasional series of posts on animal rights law: in November 2015 I wrote about the Monkey Selfie case. The claim was that Tommy, a chimpanzee, has been kept in captivity……
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Director Coats and Director Rogers Must Resign
I have already called for President Trump to resign. The reason: his admission that he fired James Comey, the former FBI director, in order to derail the Russia investigation. Yesterday, in a hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the witnesses were Adm. Michael S. Rogers, Director of the NSA, and Director of National……
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Everybody Loves a Parade
A little off-topic photography from a parade I happened to see by chance when walking downtown. Here are some minutemen firing off their muskets to the delight of tourists on the Freedom Trail: https://twitter.com/tedfolkman/status/871768896608628737
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Cert. Watch: Sudan v. Harrison
I’m tracking Sudan’s petition for certiorari in Republic of Sudan v. Harrison, a case we’ve covered twice before (first decision, second decision). Here was my description of the case:
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Two Developments on the Restatements
Readers, I want to call to your attention two important developments in the Restatements of the Law that will be of interest. I’m not going to comment on these developments here, though I may come back to them in later posts.