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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: NhRP Loses Again On Venue
Never have I ever seen someone as devoted to a pointless and overly simplistic kind of forum shopping as Steven Wise of the Nonhuman Rights Project. A few months ago, Mr. Wise’s organization brought a habeas corpus petition, supposedly on behalf of elephants kept at the Fresno Zoo. The NhRP didn’t bring the case in……
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Elephant Habeas: Mandamus Denied
The Nonhuman Rights Project was so interested in having its elephant habeas heard in San Francisco rather than Fresno that it filed a petition for a writ of mandamus seeking review of a San Francisco judge’s decision last month to send the case to Fresno, where the elephants and the Fresno Zoo are located. Although……
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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……