LouLou, an elephant at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, was one of five that the Nonhuman Rights Project claimed in a lawsuit should be able to live in a sanctuary. Molly Condit On Tuesday, Colorado’s ...

The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo called the lawsuit that was filed frivolous. “As we had hoped, all six participating Colorado Supreme Court justices unanimously ruled in our favor. The Nonhuman Rights ...

On Tuesday, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that five wild-born zoo elephants at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo do not have a right to liberty.

Elephants can't pursue release because they are not people, court rules An animal rights group brought a lawsuit on behalf of five elephants from Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs in a ...

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

The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that five elephants at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs do not have the legal right to pursue their release because they are not human.

Rulings in favor of the animals would have allowed lawyers for both Happy and the elephants at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs — Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou and Jambo — to pursue ...

Elephants are not human, Colorado high court rules for zoo in animal rights group's suit The Nonhuman Rights Project alleged the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo kept five elderly African elephants named ...

An animal rights group had sought to have the African elephants, Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou and Jambo, freed from Cheyenne Mountain Zoo and moved to an elephant sanctuary, citing a legal process ...

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The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled five elephants at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo do not have human rights. Here, an elephant walks within the Kimana Sanctuary in Kenya, February 8, 2021.

The court ruled Tuesday that the elephants couldn't be released because animals don't have the same rights as humans. The group that filed the suit said that the animals were experiencing stress ...