Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Mary C. McGinley on Thursday tossed out the Nonhuman Rights Project's bid to free five ...

A judge has dismissed an animal-rights group's suit seeking the release of five elephants at the Pittsburgh Zoo. The group ...

Attorneys from the Nonhuman Rights Project and the Animal Activist Legal Defense Project have vowed to appeal a Dane County ...

An animal rights group is suing Ridglan Farms, asking a court to extend habeas corpus protections to beagles bred for ...

The Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) and the Animal Activist Legal Defense Project (AALDP) have filed a lawsuit in Dane County ...

MADISON, Wis. — A Dane County judge dismissed a lawsuit filed against embattled beagle breeder Ridglan Farms. The lawsuit was ...

A zoo in the western Upper Peninsula is asking the Michigan Supreme Court to refuse a case that seeks a ruling that chimpanzees have constitutional rights against wrongful imprisonment. The Washington ...

About 97 percent of Americans consider their pets to be part of their family. But courts have mostly taken a different view.

A new lawsuit accuses embattled beagle breeder Ridglan Farms of animal cruelty and asks a judge to apply habeas corpus to the ...

A new lawsuit accuses embattled beagle breeder Ridglan Farms of animal cruelty and asks a judge to apply habeas corpus to the dogs in ...

New federal interpretive principle offers courts and Congress a human-centered alternative to AI pause and ban ...

Billy and Tina, a pair of Asian elephants long housed at the Los Angeles Zoo, are now residents of the Tulsa Zoo but the controversy over their fate is far from over, as evidenced by a vocal protest ...