We’ll never stop fighting for our nonhuman animal clients, and we’re going to continue to work to free them to Save the Chimps sanctuary,
LAUREN CHOPLIN: ‘Without giving a ground for its action, the Court of Appeals as a whole again refused to hear our motion for further review of a lower court decision on behalf of chimpanzees Tommy and Kiko. This in itself is not significant insofar as the Court of Appeals rejects the vast majority of motions it receives for permission to appeal. But Judge Fahey’s concurring opinion makes clear that the decision not to hear Tommy and Kiko’s cases was not made on the merits of the NhRP’s claim…
Judge Fahey rightly asserts that the failure of the Court to grapple with the issues the NhRP raises “amounts to a refusal to confront a manifest injustice” for the question of nonhuman animals’ legal personhood and rights constitutes “a deep dilemma of ethics and policy that demands our attention. To treat a chimpanzee as if he or she had no right to liberty protected by habeas corpus is to regard the chimpanzee as entirely lacking independent worth, as a mere resource for human use, a thing the value of which consists exclusively in its usefulness to others. Instead, we should consider whether a chimpanzee is an individual with inherent value who has the right to be treated with respect”…
We lament that the Court of Appeal’s denial of our motion for leave to appeal means that Tommy and Kiko will have to wait even longer to regain the liberty that was taken from them decades ago. But, as is always the case, we’ll never stop fighting for our nonhuman animal clients, and we’re going to continue to work to free them to Save the Chimps sanctuary, the premiere chimpanzee sanctuary in North America, where they’ll be able to live and move freely for the first time in their lives’. SOURCE…
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