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Court denies reconsideration in landmark chimpanzee rights case, leaving intact a ruling that invoked an 18th-century, biblically rooted conception of human dominion over animals despite extensive scientific evidence from the late Dr. Jane Goodall and other world-renowned chimpanzee experts

LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan Supreme Court denied the Nonhuman Rights P...


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The following is a statement from the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) and a quote from Christopher Berry, NhRP Chief Strategy Officer and lead attorney on the Ridglan Farms case, regarding the resolution of the case following the release of all remaining dogs from the facility:

The Nonhuman Rights Project is pleased that all of the dogs formerly confined at Ridgl...


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Another Argentine court has quietly expanded the growing body of law recognizing legal rights for nonhuman animals. This time the beneficiaries were not chimpanzees, elephants, or even companion animals in the traditional sense. They were two goldfish. 

The Criminal, Misdemeanor, and Minor Offense Court of First Instance in Buenos Aires ordered that two goldfish be per...


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