The court rejected a case to send five African elephants to a sanctuary, saying they have no legal right to demand release ...

If the court had ruled in their favor, the elephants at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs — Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou and Jambo — could have pursued a legal process that allows ...

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.

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.

The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by the animal rights group Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) over five elephants kept at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado. The NhRP pointed out that the ...

Elephants Kimba, Missy, LouLou, Lucky and Jambo live at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, but The Nonhuman Rights Project (NRP) argued they should be moved to a ‘suitable’ sanctuary. In court ...

Colorado's highest court has ruled in favor of the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo after it was sued by an animal rights group over the alleged treatment of elephants at the Colorado Springs facility.

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

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.