Lawsuit to Determine if Chimpanzee is a "person"

 "A U.S. animal rights group on Monday filed what it said is the first lawsuit seeking to establish the "legal personhood" of chimpanzees.

The non-profit Nonhuman Rights Project asked a New York state court to declare a 26-year-old chimp named Tommy "a cognitively complex autonomous legal person with the fundamental legal right not to be imprisoned."

SOURCE: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/02/us-usa-chimpanzees-lawsuit-idUSBRE9B10UE20131202

SOURCE: TRIAL Magazine April 2014, page 64