Premiered at Sundance, the movie follows attorney Steven M. Wise as he argues to a high court judges that chimpanzee Tommy has the capacity for legal rights and should be set free and sent to a sanctuary.
Justice Barbara Jaffe at the hearing for Hercules and Leo July 30th: Justice Barbara Jaffe has issued her ruling on whether the two chimpanzees held captive…
Winston Churchill famously said: “A dog looks up to you; a cat looks down on you; only a pig treats you as an equal.” But that,…
How do you put together these three items in the latest news about chimpanzees? For the first time ever, a judge in the United States orders…
Here’s a round-up of news reports about the court hearing yesterday regarding chimpanzees Hercules and Leo, who are being imprisoned at Stony Brook University for use…
This week, the Nonhuman Rights Project goes to court to argue before a judge that Hercules and Leo, two chimpanzees being held captive for locomotion experiments…
Justice Jaffe has amended the order she issued yesterday in a case brought by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP), regarding two chimpanzees, Hercules and Leo, who…
For the first time in history, a judge has granted a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of a nonhuman animal. This afternoon, in a case…
Sandra tries to hide in her pen at the Buenos Aires Zoo In the first-ever case of its kind, an orangutan at a zoo in Argentina…
The New York State Appellate Court, Third Division, has issued its decision in the case of Tommy the chimpanzee, and has essentially opened the door for…
It was probably a good idea for Patrick Lavery, the “owner” of Tommy the chimpanzee, not to make an appearance at the appellate court in Albany,…
It was a packed courtroom at the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, for the Matter of the Nonhuman Rights Project v. Lavery, 518336 – better…
Tommy the chimpanzee is headed back to court. He won’t be there in person, but the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) is appealing a December ruling of…
Legal rights for animals?? Expect Stephen Colbert to be suitably shocked, horrified and appalled when, in character as the classic right-wing bloviator, he welcomes Steven…
A new study of captive chimpanzees concludes that the personality traits of chimpanzees are almost identical to those of humans. I asked psychologist Sam Gosling of…
Charles Siebert’s New York Times story about the Nonhuman Rights Project has stirred lots of interest around the country in last few days. Among other scoops,…
For the last two years, Academy Award-winning movie maker D.A. Pennebaker and Oscar nominee Chris Hegedus have been following the work of Steven M. Wise and…
Steven M. Wise, President of the Nonhuman Rights Project President, answers some of the questions we’ve been receiving in the wake of the cover story in the New York Times magazine.
First: “Why can’t a humane society or local authorities just go in and rescue those poor chimpanzees?”
Our plaintiff did not walk into our office; he couldn’t. When we last saw him, he was being held captive in solitary confinement in a small, dank, cement cage in a dark shed in temperatures 40 degrees below his native land.
Renowned author and journalist Charles Siebert writes about the Nonhuman Rights Project for this week’s cover story in the New York Times Magazine. Siebert accompanies attorney…