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

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

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

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

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 ...

Activists with the Nonhuman Rights Project sued the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo last summer on behalf of the facility’s five elephants: Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou and Jambo. The project’s ...

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

Five wild-born elephants that have long inhabited a 2-acre plot in a southern Colorado zoo will not be able to pursue their own release, the state’s highest court ruled this week. Responding to a ...

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

The Colorado court dismissed the case, stating that elephants cannot file a writ of habeas corpus because they are not human. In this unanimous ruling, the court explained that the writ of habeas ...

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 ...