The ruling comes after the Nonhuman Rights Project filed a lawsuit against the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo over the conditions the ...

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

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

An animal rights non-profit, Nonhuman Rights Project, brought both cases on the elephants' behalf under a legal doctrine ...

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 ...

Five elephants at a Colorado zoo may be “majestic” but, since they’re not human, they do not have the legal right to pursue their release, Colorado’s highest court said Tuesday.

The Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) filed the suit against the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in May 2024 alleging the park in Colorado Springs kept five elderly African elephants named Missy, Kimba ...

The ruling comes after the Nonhuman Rights Project filed a lawsuit against the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo over the conditions the animals. Last October, the group sued the zoo over the welfare of its ...