Activists with the Nonhuman Rights Project sued the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo last summer on behalf of the facility’s five elephants: Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou and Jambo.

The group alleged that the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo’s five elephants—named Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou and Jambo—were “unlawfully confined,” according to the ruling.

Elephants can’t pursue their release from a zoo because they’re not human, court says The Colorado Supreme Court threw out a case on the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo's elephants. (Source: KKTV) ...

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.

An animal rights group brought a lawsuit on behalf of five elephants from Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs in a move that the zoo said "abused court systems".

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.