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Elephants Aren’t People and Can’t Sue to Leave a Zoo, Colorado’s Top Court Rules
The court rejected a case to send five African elephants to a sanctuary, saying they have no legal right to demand release ...
Elephants are not human, Colorado high court rules for zoo in animal rights group's suit
The Colorado high court ruled in favor of Cheyenne Mountain Zoo after an animal rights group alleged the park's elephants ...
Elephants will be allowed to remain at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo following Colorado Supreme Court ruling
The court ruled Tuesday that elephants couldn't be released because animals don't have the same rights as humans. The group ...
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo’s elephants are not “legal persons” under the law, Colorado Supreme Court rules
History will look upon this ruling as a grave injustice,” animal law professor and director of the Animal Activist Legal ...
Elephants can’t pursue their release from a Colorado zoo because they’re not human, court says
Five elephants at a Colorado zoo may be “majestic” but do not have the legal right to pursue their release since they aren't ...
Elephants cannot sue to get out of zoo, Colorado's top court rules
Five elderly African elephants at a Colorado zoo will stay there after the state Supreme Court ruled they dont have the legal ...
Elephants Are Not People, Colorado Supreme Court Rules
A court has rejected the notion that elephants are people, upholding a zoo's right to keep the animals after a yearslong legal scrap.
Colorado court rules elephants at zoo cannot pursue their release because they are not human
Five elephants at a Colorado zoo do not have the legal right to pursue their release because they are not human, according to ...
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 ...
Elephants can’t use habeas corpus to be released from zoos because they’re not human, court rules
"Because an elephant is not a person, the elephants here do not have standing to bring a habeas corpus claim," the court ...
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Elephants can’t pursue their release from Cheyenne Mountain Zoo because they’re not human, court says
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 ...