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NONHUMAN RIGHTS INC. v. LAVERY

150149/16. 162358/15.

152 A.D.3d 73 (2017)

2017 NY Slip Op 04574

54 N.Y.S.3d 392

In the Matter of NONHUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT, INC., on Behalf of TOMMY, Appellant, v. PATRICK C. LAVERY et al., Respondents. In the Matter of NONHUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT, INC., on Behalf of KIKO, Appellant, v. CARMEN PRESTI et al., Respondents.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department.

Decided June 8, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law Office of Elizabeth Stein, New Hyde Park ( Elizabeth Stein of counsel), and Steven M. Wise , of the Massachusetts bar, admitted pro hac vice, of counsel, for appellant.

Justin Marceau, Denver, Colorado, amicus curiae pro se.

Samuel R. Wiseman, Tallahasse, Florida, amicus curiae pro se.

Laurence H. Tribe, Cambridge, Massachusetts, amicus curiae pro se.

Richard L. Cupp, Jr., Malibu, California, amicus curiae pro se.

RENWICK, J.P., MAZZARELLI, MANZANET-DANIELS and FEINMAN, JJ., concur.

OPINION OF THE COURT

Petitioner seeks reversal of the motion court's judgment declining to extend habeas corpus relief to two adult male chimpanzees, Tommy and Kiko.

Petitioner is a Massachusetts nonprofit corporation whose stated mission is "to change the common-law status of at least some nonhuman animals from mere...

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