Colorado’s highest court on Tuesday ruled that five elderly elephants don’t have legal standing to sue to leave a local zoo because they’re not human. An animal rights group had sought to ...

Elephants Aren’t People and Can’t Sue to Leave a Zoo, ... In 2022, the organization lost a similar court case on behalf of Happy, an Asian elephant at the Bronx Zoo in New York. That time, ...

The Nonhuman Rights Project, a nonprofit seeking legal rights for intelligent animals, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in 2023 on behalf of five elephants — Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou ...

BOULDER, Colo. — Five elephants in a Colorado zoo could someday sue for their freedom, if the state’s Supreme Court sides with an animal rights group and declares them “persons” under the law.

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Five elephants in a Colorado zoo could someday sue for their freedom, if the state’s Supreme Court sides with an animal rights group and declares them “persons” under ...

Elephants can’t sue to leave the zoo, court rules. A Colorado court rejected efforts to free five elephants using a legal process for human detainees, writing that it “boils down to whether an ...

Five elephants in a Colorado zoo could someday sue for their freedom, if the state’s Supreme Court sides with an animal rights group and declares them “persons” under the law. But first, the ...

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Five elephants in a Colorado zoo could someday sue for their freedom, if the state’s Supreme Court sides with an animal rights group and declares them “persons” under ...

BOULDER, Colo. — Five elephants in a Colorado zoo could someday sue for their freedom, if the state’s Supreme Court sides with an animal rights group and declares them “persons” under the law.