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Recap of Oral Arguments in Happy’s Elephant Rights Case

By Lauren Choplin on November 19, 2020
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Today we argued for our elephant client Happy’s right to liberty before a five-judge panel of the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Judicial Department. Thank you to all who joined us for the livestream!

Visit our YouTube channel for a video recap of the proceedings from NhRP Staff Attorney Elizabeth (Liddy) Stein.

Click here to watch the arguments on the Court’s YouTube channel.

Click here to join the over one million people who have signed a Change.org petition calling for Happy’s release to a sanctuary.

As Liddy says, “We truly could not do this without you, so we thank you. We know if Happy could say something, she would thank you as well.”

To learn more about Happy and our fight for her freedom, visit her court case timeline. To help us #FreeHappy, visit her campaign page. 

Lauren is the NhRP’s Communications Director. She heads up internal and external communications, coordinating media coverage of our legal and policy work and managing our blog and social media pages.

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