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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……
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Elephant Habeas: New York’s High Court Rejects “Elephants Are Persons” Nonsense
Let me stipulate at the beginning that elephants are magnificent animals who have been treated badly by us human beings for a long time. We have hunted them for ivory, reduced their habitat, and mistreated them in captivity in the circus and in some zoos. I say some zoos because Happy, the elephant at the……
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Case of the Day: Community of Hippopotamuses v. Ministerio de Ambiente
A federal court grants an ex parte 1782 application brought by … some of Pablo Escobar’s Colombian hippopotamuses. Continue Reading Case of the Day: Community of Hippopotamuses v. Ministerio de Ambiente