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Happy the elephant is not a person, New York’s highest court rules

The ruling rejected an effort to move the Bronx Zoo elephant to a sanctuary—and ended the furthest-advancing animal rights case in U.S. judicial history.

Happy the elephant is not a person, New York’s highest court rules,The ruling rejected an effort to move the Bronx Zoo elephant to a sanctuary—and ended the furthest-advancing animal rights case in U.S. judicial history.

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