A Rare Win for the Monkeys: Please forward far and wide

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" Rick Bogle " <rbogle

Monday, November 27, 2006 5:10 PM

A Rare Win for the Monkeys

 

Please forward far and wide.

 

November 27, 2006

 

Primate Freedom Project

P.O. Box 1623

Fayetteville, GA. 30214

Tel: 770.719.5348

Email: info

http://www.primateresearch.com/

 

Contact: Rick Bogle 608 222 2348

 

A Rare Win for the Monkeys

 

Madison, Wisc. Animal activists today came much closer to their

dream of

establishing a national primate research exhibition directly next

door to

two of the nation's most infamous monkey research laboratories.

 

In her oral decision, Judge Sarah B. O'Brien ruled that a real estate

contract on a piece of commercial property is indeed valid and

enforceable

and ordered the current owner to convey the property to the

activists.

 

Ruling that embarrassment to the University of Wisconsin was not an

adequate

reason to block the sale, that the UW had previously twice declined

to

purchase the property, and that arguments claiming possible

increased risks

to researchers were spurious, the Judge concurred with the Primate

Freedom

Project that the land contract was binding and enforceable.

 

An appeal by the current owner is likely. Future legal fights are

likely as

well as the university, the NIH, and the vivisection industry

struggle to

quash public discourse concerning animal experimentation.

 

" Future hurdles remain, " said Rick Bogle, spokesperson for the

Primate

Freedom Project, " but this was the highest one. "

 

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