{"id":749652,"date":"2017-12-15T20:08:25","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T20:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=749652"},"modified":"2017-12-15T20:09:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T20:09:20","slug":"why-the-first-judicial-departments-decision-in-our-chimpanzee-rights-cases-is-wildly-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=749652","title":{"rendered":"Why the First Judicial Department\u2019s Decision In Our Chimpanzee Rights Cases Is Wildly Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>STEVEN WISE:<\/strong> <em>\u2018On June 8th, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Judicial Department issued its decision in the NhRP\u2019s habeas corpus cases of captive chimpanzees Tommy and Kiko. After carefully reviewing and annotating it, we unanimously concluded that the First Judicial Department had almost no idea what the NhRP alleged in our habeas petitions, what our major arguments were, or even what relief we were seeking for Tommy and Kiko. The Court responded by creating, then rejecting, \u201cstraw man\u201d arguments the NhRP did not make in an apparent effort to arbitrarily deny personhood and rights to Tommy and Kiko\u2026 The NhRP has the right to have a court decide its case based on the powerful public policy arguments that we actually made. That\u2019s why, for the first time, the NhRP decided to fully annotate the decision, making it available as a PDF\u2026 In the next two to three weeks, we\u2019ll file a motion for leave to appeal to New York\u2019s highest court, the Court of Appeals\u2019.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nonhumanrights.org\/blog\/first-department-wildly-wrong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">SOURCE\u2026<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZiS8j8hulq8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STEVEN WISE: \u2018On June 8th, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Judicial Department issued its decision in the NhRP\u2019s habeas corpus cases of captive chimpanzees Tommy and Kiko. After carefully reviewing and annotating it, we unanimously concluded that the First Judicial Department had almost no idea what the NhRP alleged in our habeas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":749653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20,21,23],"tags":[34,37],"class_list":["post-749652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-justice","category-kisnship","category-rights","tag-personhood","tag-speciesism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=749652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749654,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749652\/revisions\/749654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/749653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=749652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=749652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=749652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}