It looks like Charla Nash, mauled and disfigured by her friend’s 200-pound pet chimpanzee in 2009, will not get her day in court.

Nash sought permission to sue the state and wanted $150 million in damages. Her lawyers argued that the chimp, named Travis, was known to be dangerous by state officials but they did nothing about it.

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