The court rejected a case to send five African elephants to a sanctuary, saying they have no legal right to demand release ...
Elephants Cannot Sue to Get Out of the Zoo, Colorado's Top Court Rules By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - Five elderly African elephants at a Colorado zoo will stay there, after the state's highest ...
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 ...
The high court rejected arguments that elephants qualify as “persons” under state law and suggested animal advocates turn to ...
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 ...
Last October, the group sued the zoo over the welfare of its five elephants: Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou and Jambo. The NhRP was claiming habeas corpus as the elephants' next friend. This term is ...
(Reuters) - Five elderly African elephants at a Colorado zoo will stay there, after the state's highest court said the animals have no legal right to demand their release because they are not human.
DENVER — Five elephants at a Colorado zoo may be "majestic," but since they're not human, they do not have the legal right to pursue their release, Colorado's highest court said Tuesday.