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 Supreme Court decided that elephants are not people, and don’t have the same rights. The state’s habeas corpus ...

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

The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday denied releasing five elderly elephants from a local zoo, saying that the animals may be ‘majestic’ but they are not humans. It ruled that the elephants were not ...

A bid to free five elephants from a Colorado zoo has been rejected after a court ruled elephants are not people.

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

A lawsuit arguing elephants should be freed from a zoo has failed in court, with the judge ruling that "majestic" mammals do ...

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 ...

A bid to secure the release of five elephants from a Colorado zoo has been dismissed after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled ...

Indigenous North American animals like cougars and bald eagles, which are among the animals at the zoo, are no strangers to ...