Nonhuman Rights Project , a nonprofit civil rights organization advocating for the legal personhood of great apes, elephants, dolphins and whales, filed its first petition against the zoo in 2018"demanding recognition of Happy's legal personhood and fundamental right to bodily liberty and her release to an elephant sanctuary."On Wednesday, the New York Court of Appeals heard arguments on both sides for Happy's release from the zoo.
"NRP is using Happy the same way they have used animals in other cases in their effort to upend centuries of habeas corpus law and impose their own world view that animals should not be in zoos."And the case also has broader legal implications, the zoo argues. Habeas corpus has never been applied to nonhuman animals in New York, says the zoo, and doing so would open the door to legal chaos and add greater strain on the state's court systems.
FREE HAPPY
Free “Happy” and put the thugs in the city in jail
My God, Half the people here have never heard of elephant sanctuaries.... and no, Happy isn't a person but Happy has rights. You hated the pandemic lockdown. Now imagine doing it for 40 years, chained to make sure and then post your op.
Release the animal, but the animal bout to get “human rights” before minorities
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Happy is not a human The end
Hey do you think that NhRP can secure American women of child bearing age their civil rights of body autonomy? MyBodyMyRights
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