Five elephants at a Colorado zoo do not have the legal right to pursue their release because they are not human, according to the Colorado Supreme Court.

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

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

The highest court in Colorado denied a claim made on behalf of five elephants at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado ...

Five elephants at a Colorado zoo may be “majestic” but do not have the legal right to pursue their release since they aren't ...

A court has rejected the notion that elephants are people, upholding a zoo's right to keep the animals after a yearslong ...

The court rejected a case to send five African elephants to a sanctuary, saying they have no legal right to demand release ...

(Cheyenne Mountain Zoo via AP) (CN) — Five elderly African elephants will be staying put in a Colorado zoo after the state ...

The Colorado Supreme Court followed in the steps of its counterparts on Tuesday and rejected the idea that an animal rights organization could petition for the release of five captive elephants in ...

The ruling from the Colorado Supreme Court follows a similar court defeat in New York in 2022 for an elephant named Happy at the Bronx Zoo in a case brought by an animal rights group. Rulings in ...

Responding to a petition from an animal rights group, the Colorado Supreme Court decided that although these female African elephants are “majestic,” the “interests protected by the great wr ...