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On the morning of December 2, a lawyer named Steve Wise and three other members of the Nonhuman Rights Project walked up the steps of a courthouse in Johnstown, New York and into the annals of history. In Wise's hands was a lawsuit demanding something unprecedented in American law: formal recognition that a 26-year-old chimpanzee named Tommy, kept alone in a cage in a local warehouse, is a person, possessing a legal right to bodily liberty previously reserved for humans. It's radically new legal ground ? and that, they say, is where the science is taking us.
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