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Los Angeles, April 03, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --   The Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) today celebrated its founding Board member and scientific expert, Dr. Jane Goodall, during a recognition...

Los Angeles, March 28, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Los Angeles City Councilmembers Paul Koretz (CD5) and Mitch O’Farrell (CD13) will honor Dr. Jane Goodall’s unique legacy of scientific discoveries,...

Albion, NY, Nov. 19, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- For the second time in United States legal history and the first time anywhere on behalf of an elephant, a judge has issued a habeas corpus Order on...

Hartford, CT, Sept. 26, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Citing errors by the Connecticut Superior Court and New York judges’ recent embrace of nonhuman animal legal personhood and rights, the Nonhuman...

New York, NY, March 08, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Nonhuman Rights Project announced today that legal advocacy organization the Center for Constitutional Rights and law professors Laurence H....

Hartford, CT, Jan. 17, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) announced it has filed a motion to reargue with the Connecticut Superior Court, Litchfield County, asking the...

Hartford, CT, Nov. 13, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) announced today that it has filed a petition for a common law writ of habeas corpus in Connecticut Superior Court...

New York, NY, June 22, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) published a fully annotated version of the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Judicial...