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Rights Group is Seeking Status of ‘Legal Person’ for Captive Chimpanzee

The Nonhuman Rights Project filed papers on Monday in State Supreme Court in Fulton County, N.Y., demanding that courts in New York recognize chimpanzee Tommy as a legal person, with a right to liberty, but one that has its limits.

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