Well crap, there goes my suit against Phillip Morris.
Posted on 01/18/2008 12:13:25 PM PST by Snickering Hound
SAN ANTONIO — A Texas appeals court has affirmed a lower court decision that nine chimpanzees and monkeys that were brought to the Primarily Primates sanctuary in 2006 don't have a legal right to sue.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals had sought to gain legal standing for the primates transferred from Ohio State University to the sanctuary after they were retired. PETA alleged that the sanctuary conditions were substandard and that it would be best for the seven chimps and two monkeys to be moved to another sanctuary.
The animals were later moved to the Chimp Haven sanctuary in Louisiana after the Texas attorney general placed Primarily Primates in receivership for six months. Primarily Primates, which has since restructured its board, is suing to have the animals returned.
The 4th Court of Appeals on Wednesday affirmed the lower court decision dismissing the case in September 2006.
PETA said it was considering whether to appeal.
"The receiver's report of the substandard facilities at Primarily Primates, Inc. (PPI), described horrific conditions for the animals there, from which some of the animals were saved as a result of litigation," PETA said in a statement.
Priscilla Feral, chairwoman of a restructured Primarily Primates board, applauded the ruling.
"We are glad that this wrong-headed lawsuit which PETA filed against a sanctuary is finally over and we can get on with bettering the lives of each and every animal under our care," she said.
What species were the lawyers?
Inquiring minds want to know...
Has anyone alerted John Edwards?
BWAAAHAHAHA! Peta tried to get legal standing for apes!?! ROFL!!! Further proof that the Left prays only to saints of lost causes!
Well crap, there goes my suit against Phillip Morris.
The result would have been different had it been heard by the 9th Circus.
Is Ron Paul the head of PETA?
But Lancelot Link served his country.
PETA really is the queerest bunch of folks.
Chimps can’t sue in Texas... there’s a joke about President Bush in there somewhere, but you’ll have to go to DU for it.
I know you are being sarcastic, but the 9th Circuit recently rejected a lawsuit that sought legal standing for whales.
I'm sure he's saddened by this inexplicable turn of events.
Haha, I didn’t know that. I don’t think they’re growing a brain, maybe it’s a case of a stopped clock.
There are some conservative judges on the 9th Circuit (including the Chief Judge, Kosinski). It's just that they are outnumbered by the liberals. Federal appeals courts sit in panels of 3 judges, so it's a real crapshoot who you will get on your panel in the 9th Circuit, but some panels are very conservative.
Woohoo! The conquest of the planet of the apes has been postponed for another ten years or so.
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