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Is Happy the Elephant a Person for the Purposes of the Common Law Right to Be Free?
Monica, thank you so much for for coming back on the show. As everyone knows, thisis a hippocentric podcast. But you youare here to talk about elephantsa, what's going on with happy the elephant? Well, happy the elephant is our client. She has been imprisoned in the bronx zoo for a couple of decades. A sheis a 50 year old asian elephant, and is living in isolation. And so we filed the first ever rid of habeas corpus in new york on behalf of an elephant,. On behalf of happy, back in, i want to say, 22 thousandand 18 and a now the new york court of appeals,