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MATTER OF NONHUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT, INC. v. PRESTI

1300 CA 14-00357.

124 A.D.3d 1334 (2015)

In the Matter of NONHUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT, INC., On Behalf of KIKO, Appellant, v. CARMEN PRESTI, Individually and as an officer and Director of the Primate Sanctuary, Inc., et al., Respondents.

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

Decided January 2, 2015.

It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs.

Memorandum: Petitioner, an organization seeking better treatment and housing of, inter alia, nonhuman primates, commenced this proceeding seeking a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of Kiko, a chimpanzee. Rather than seeking Kiko's immediate release, however, the petition alleges that Kiko is illegally confined because he is kept...

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