"Because an elephant is not a person, the elephants here do not have standing to bring a habeas corpus claim," the court ...

Colorado’s highest court ruled that five elderly African elephants do not have legal standing to sue to leave a local zoo, because they aren’t human. The Supreme Court of the state ruled 6-0 against ...

The Colorado high court ruled in favor of Cheyenne Mountain Zoo after an animal rights group alleged the park's elephants ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. ( KKTV /Gray News) - The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that elephants do not have the same rights as ...

History will look upon this ruling as a grave injustice,” animal law professor and director of the Animal Activist Legal ...

The highest court in Colorado denied a claim made on behalf of five elephants at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, ruling that elephants do not have the same rights humans do.

Five elderly elephants living in a Colorado Springs zoo aren’t protected by the same liberty interests that cover humans, the ...

Five elderly African elephants at a Colorado zoo will stay there, after the state's highest court said the animals have no ...

The Colorado Supreme Court has rejected the idea that elephants are entitled to the same rights as humans. Colorado law ...

Brigitte Stelzer Animal rights group Nonhuman Rights Project even took the Bronx Zoo to court in an unsuccessful bid to get Happy could be categorized as a person in a court of law. The New York ...

Five elephants at a Colorado zoo may be “majestic” but, since they’re not human, they do not have the legal right to pursue ...