A Colorado court has ruled against a bid to free five elephants from a local zoo, determining that elephants do not have the ...
"Because an elephant is not a person, the elephants here do not have standing to bring a habeas corpus claim," the court ...
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 ...