In an earlier post, I promised to review the legal arguments proffered by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NRP) in their petition for the release of several chimpanzees held in captivity in the State of New York—not pursuant to existing laws governing the mistreatment of animals, but on the novel basis that the chimps are “persons” under the law entitling them to deliverance via habeas corpus. Those arguments are set forth in the NRP’s first appellate brief to which I provide som