Five wild-born elephants that have long inhabited a two-acre plot in a Southern Colorado zoo will not be able to pursue their own release, the state’s highest court ruled this week.

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 ...

The state supreme court on Tuesday said the habeas corpus law does only just that: grants people that ability, which the elephants are 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 ...

C alifornia bees may be fish, but Colorado elephants are not people. At least, that’s the ruling of the state’s Supreme Court, who this week decreed that five elephants currently held at the Cheyenne ...

Five elephants at a Colorado zoo may be “majestic” but do not have the legal right to pursue their release since they aren't ...

The Colorado court dismissed the case, stating that elephants cannot file a writ of habeas corpus because they are not human. In this unanimous ruling, the court explained that the writ of habeas ...

A Colorado court rejected efforts to free five elephants using a legal process for human detainees, writing that it “boils ...

The group argued that elephants at Colorado Zoo showed signs of brain damage as the place was essentially a "prison" for such ...

A bid to get five elephants released from a US zoo has failed after judges ruled the animals are not people so laws on ...

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