Posted on 04/21/2015 10:27:22 PM PDT by Steelfish
Chimpanzees Granted Petition To Hear 'Legal Persons' Status In Court New York judge grants writ of habeas corpus to Hercules and Leo, chimpanzees used for medical experiments, to defend rights against imprisonment
The judge’s argument in this case and others is that chimpanzees are intelligent, emotionally complex and self-aware enough to merit some basic human rights. Alan Yuhas in New York
21 April 2015 For the first time in US history, a judge has granted two chimpanzees a petition – through human attorneys – to defend their rights against unlawful imprisonment, allowing a hearing on the status of “legal persons” for the primates.
On Monday, Manhattan supreme court justice Barbara Jaffe granted a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of two non-human plaintiffs, Hercules and Leo – chimpanzees used for medical experiments at Stony Brook University on Long Island.
In her order, Jaffe ordered Samuel Stanley Jr, the president of Stony Brook, to argue before the court why the chimpanzees were being “unlawfully detained” at his university and should not be transferred to a primate sanctuary in Florida.
On Tuesday afternoon she struck the words “writ of habeas corpus” from the order, in order to clarify that she had not meant to imply the chimpanzees have legal person status.
The attorneys who brought the petition forward, part of the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP), argued – before the judge struck the words – that under New York law, “only a ‘legal person’ may have an order to show cause and writ of habeas corpus issued in his or her behalf. The court has therefore implicitly determined that Hercules and Leo are ‘persons’.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Dogs need to be able to sue cops....
How did the policeman treat you?
RUFF!!
Voting rights to follow.
As long as they vote demoRAT.
Ahhh ... two headliners ...
“Chimpanzees petition to be human” ... and then ... “Human beings petition to be animals!” ... :-) ...
Must not say it, thread will get pulled.............
Woman judge.
;-)
Of they are so damned smart, why can’t they Ape being a lawyer?
Erh, wait. Are lawyers monkeying around and the real apes
When questioned about their pending legal case, the chimpanzees said: "Oooh ...oooh...eee...eee.."
Then stuck a finger up their butt, smelled it, and fell out of a tree.
But the courts continue to illogically deny the humanity of innocent little people who have not yet passed through a birth canal.
This article is obviously a rip-off of Robert Heinlein’s 1947 story, “Jerry Was A Man,” a courtroom drama deciding whether a genetically altered chimpanzee deserved human rights.
Only if they're made to register with Selective Service.
I guess reminding us attorneys are human may be sensible. About the only thing sensible in the article.
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