This is Handel on the Law, marginal legal advice, where I tell you you have no case whatsoever.

I love these lawsuits.

This one's out of New York.

There's an elephant at the Bronx Zoo named Happy the Elephant.

There was a group called the Non-Human Rights Project that brought a lawsuit against the city of New York, actually the state of New York, to have Happy declared a person.

To give happy personhood.

49-year-old female Asian elephant been living by herself in conditions that have, well,

they're not wonderful to say the least.

And so here the appeals court determining whether animals or people, PETA, has been making these claims and filing

lawsuits for years, PETA, you know, that bread, that mid-Easterners eat.

No, no, the people for the ethical treatment of animals.

I always get the two confused.

And it's case after case that's filed.

Last time, I think they did one with a chimpanzee arguing that the genetics of chimpanzees and humans are so close.

They should be both considered human beings.

And the court said, nah, I don't think so.

And then there have been some really crazy ones that Richard, the gerbil, for example, was once the plaintiff in a lawsuit to be declared a person. And so here are the justices

looking at this. And they're actually looking at it. There was an appeals court decision. The

loss, of course, lower court and kicked it up.

And I guess the court wanted to hear it because the appeals court can say no.

So the judges were a little skeptical.

And one of the joint justices said, isn't this better suited for the legislature to act on?

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