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

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 humans. The ruling comes after the Nonhuman Rights Project filed a lawsuit ...

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

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

Missy (front) and Lucky are shown at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorada Springs (Cheyenne Mountain Zoo) The Nonhuman Rights Project, the group that advocated for the animals argued that the ...

The Colorado Supreme Court has sided with the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo after an animal rights organization sued the group, ...

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

The Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) filed the suit against the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in May 2024 alleging the park in Colorado Springs kept five elderly African elephants named Missy, Kimba ...

An animal rights group called the Nonhuman Rights Project had been trying to get five elephants freed from the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs. The group attempted to use a process used ...

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

The ruling comes after the Nonhuman Rights Project filed a lawsuit against the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo over the conditions the animals. Last October, the group sued the zoo over the welfare of its ...