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 ...

The court ruled Tuesday that the elephants couldn't be released because animals don't have the same rights as humans. The ...

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

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

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

Judges ruled a bid to free five elderly African elephants from Cheyenne Mountain Zoo was based on a law that only applied to ...

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 ...

The high court rejected arguments that elephants qualify as “persons” under state law and suggested animal advocates turn to ...

An animal rights group brought a lawsuit on behalf of five elephants from Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs in a move ...

On Tuesday, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that elephants do not have the same rights as humans after the Nonhuman Rights ...