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Chimpanzee "Personhood" Lawsuits Fail In New York Courts

Posted by timothy on from the politicians-still-considered-people dept.

sciencehabit writes "Three lawsuits filed last week that attempted to achieve 'legal personhood' for four chimpanzees living in New York have been struck down. The suits, brought by the animal rights group the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP), targeted two chimps on private property and two in a research lab at Stony Brook University in New York. NhRP says it will now appeal each lawsuit to a higher court, and that it will continue its campaign to grant chimpanzees, dolphins, and other cognitively advanced animals legal personhood nationwide."

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  1. Re: so how will they earn a living by O('_')O_Bush · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm quite certain that dolphins and chimps have many more intelligent things to say than the Fox news pundits. Sometimes I'm not sure what species Beck was supposed to represent.

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