Jan 22, 2025 · The Colorado Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Tuesday that elephants do not have legal standing to challenge their captivity, a decision that blocks a legal effort to move five African elephants ...

6 days ago · Five wild-born elephants that have long inhabited a 2-acre plot in a southern Colorado zoo will not be able to pursue their own release, the state’s highest court ruled this week. Responding …

Jan 22, 2025 · Colorado’s top court ruled Tuesday that five elephants confined in a local zoo do not have the right to seek habeas corpus relief because no court in the United States “has ever recognized the legal ‘personhood’ of any nonhuman species.”. The Nonhuman Rights Project (NRP), an advocacy organization that seeks legal rights for intelligent animals, filed a petition for a writ of habeas ...

1 day ago · When given the opportunity to give personhood to an elephant, however, courts have declined. Twice. On January 21, 2025, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that an animal rights group's petition to apply habeas corpus to a group of elephants in a Colorado Springs zoo didn't have legal ground to stand on. This confirmed the decision rendered by ...

Jan 22, 2025 · The Colorado Supreme Court said the matter boiled down to "whether an elephant is a person" and therefore had the same liberty rights as a human - ultimately deciding that they did not.

Jan 21, 2025 · The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a national animal rights organization’s ninth attempt to declare animals legal persons in court and secure them the right to challenge their ...

Jan 21, 2025 · DENVER — “An elephant is not a person” and is not afforded the same liberties as a person under the Colorado Constitution, the Colorado Supreme Court decided Tuesday.The state’s highest ...

Jan 22, 2025 · The ruling from the Colorado Supreme Court follows a similar court defeat in New York in 2022 for an elephant named Happy at the Bronx Zoo in a case brought by an animal rights group.

Jan 21, 2025 · The ruling from the Colorado Supreme Court follows a similar court defeat in New York in 2022 for an elephant named Happy at the Bronx Zoo in a case brought by an animal rights group. 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 ...

Oct 25, 2024 · 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 the law.