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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

The court ruled Tuesday that elephants couldn't be released because animals don't have the same rights as humans. The group that filed the suit said that the animals were experiencing stress, physical ...

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

Outrage erupted among animal welfare activists after Colorado courts ruled that five captive elephants could not petition for ...

DENVER — Five elephants at a Colorado zoo do not have the legal right to pursue their own freedom from a Colorado zoo, the ...

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