MADISON, Wis. – Animal rights activists’ plans to build a first-of-its-kind museum protesting animal research between two University of Wisconsin primate labs received a major blow Thursday from a Wisconsin appeals court.
The 4th District Court of Appeals ruled that business owner Roger Charly was free to revoke an offer for activists who run the Primate Freedom Project to purchase his property and dismissed the breach of contract lawsuit against him.
The decision overturns a November 2006 lower court ruling ordering Charly to sell the property for $675,000 to Richard McLellan, a retired California doctor who wanted to bankroll a National Primate Research Center Exhibition Hall.