Chimps Get Their Day in Court in N.Y. ‘Personhood’ Hearing. Future of higher education. CMK.Personhood.pdf. Personhood For Animals | National Association for Biomedical Research. Lawyers within the animal rights movement have begun to lay the groundwork and test new legal theories in a focused and determined effort to grant additional legal protections for animals, including animals involved in research. The leaders of this legal movement advocate enacting new federal, state, and local laws and ordinances as well as establishing new court precedents that have the potential to significantly interfere with animal research. This long-term, step-by-step strategy includes a multi-front campaign to toughen state animal cruelty laws, replace the term "owner" with "guardian" in local and state statutes, increase access to federal courts by eliminating standing requirements, enact statutes or establish new case law to permit higher levels of compensation for non-economic damages, expand tort law, enact laws that allow trusts to be set up for family pets, and eventually establish a form of legal personhood for some species of animals.
The Nonhuman Rights Project. ‘Animals Are Persons Too’ Continue reading the main story Video Op-Docs By CHRIS HEGEDUS and D. A. PENNEBAKER How does a thing become a person? Mr. The current focus of Mr. This fall, the cases will be likely to go to New York’s intermediate appellate courts. This Op-Doc is adapted from a feature-length documentary, “Unlocking the Cage,” which we are producing about Mr. Verified Commenters can leave comments on NYTimes.com without initial moderation.