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Elephant Habeas: Next Stop, Colorado
The Nonhuman Rights Project has taken its traveling show to Colorado, where it has filed a habeas corpus petition, supposedly on behalf of elephants kept by the Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Society. The petition is highly similar to the earlier petitions, so I won’t review it in any detail. What a great country! Instead of advocating……
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Elephant Habeas: California Appeals Court Denies NhRP’s Petition
I’ve gotten behind in my coverage of the elephant habeas petitions brought by Steven Wise and his Nonhuman Rights Project. My last update involved an unusual attempt by the NhRP to file a habeas corpus petition directly in an appellate court. Now, I don’t know anything about California habeas corpus law, but I do know……
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A New Elephant Habeas Case
Steven Wise’s Nonhuman Rights Project has brought a new habeas corpus petition on behalf of three elephants in the Fresno Zoo. It’s pretty much exactly like his last habeas corpus petition for an elephant in Fresno, except that he has filed it in an appellate court instead of a superior court, and except that he……
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Elephant Habeas: San Francisco Judge Sends Case To Fresno
Well that didn’t take long! As predicted, a San Francisco judge has rejected an effort by the Nonhuman Rights Project, a group with no apparent connection with San Francisco, to seek habeas corpus for three elephants, who also have no apparent connection with San Francisco. The case will (barring an appeal, which I’m sorry to……
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Elephant Habeas: Steven Wise Shops for a Forum
What stereotypes come to mind when you think of San Francisco? It’s full of hippies! It has open-air drug markets! It is the home of Star Fleet Academy! Steven Wise and the Nonhuman Rights Project may have had such stereotypes in mind when they filed their latest petition for a writ of habeas corpus for……