The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled against the release of five African elephants from the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, concluding that elephants are not legally recognized as people and, therefore, do not ...

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

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

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

C alifornia bees may be fish, but Colorado elephants are not people. At least, that’s the ruling of the state’s Supreme Court, who this week decreed that five elephants currently held at the Cheyenne ...

Five elephants at Colorado's Cheyenne Mountain Zoo became the focus of a legal battle over their right to freedom. Animal ...

A Colorado court rejected efforts to free five elephants using a legal process for human detainees, writing that it “boils ...

A bid to get five elephants released from a US zoo has failed after judges ruled the animals are not people so laws on ...

The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that elephants do not have the same rights as humans. The ruling comes after the Nonhuman ...

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.

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