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

The Border Network for Human Rights, or BNHR, will discuss the launch of a Community Education on Constitutional Rights Project at a news conference today. Watch the news conference below: The project ...

The state supreme court on Tuesday said the habeas corpus law does only just that: grants people that ability, which the elephants are not.

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 to a ...

One of Trump's executive orders moves to end birthright citizenship, a right enshrined in the Constitution. Here's what you need to know about the legal principle and its possible future.

Five elephants at Colorado's Cheyenne Mountain Zoo became the focus of a legal battle over their right to freedom. Animal ...

The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that elephants do not have the same rights as humans. The ruling comes after the Nonhuman ...

The highest court in Colorado denied a claim made on behalf of five elephants at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, ruling that elephants do not have the same rights humans do.

The Colorado Supreme Court has rejected the idea that elephants are entitled to the same rights as humans. Colorado law ...

Five elderly African elephants at a Colorado zoo will stay there, after the state's highest court said the animals have no ...

The Colorado high court ruled in favor of Cheyenne Mountain Zoo after an animal rights group alleged the park's elephants ...

Brigitte Stelzer Animal rights group Nonhuman Rights Project even took the Bronx Zoo to court in an unsuccessful bid to get Happy could be categorized as a person in a court of law. The New York ...