Where a plaintiff has requested an injunction permitting her to remove two Asian elephants from the Buttonwood Park Zoo and transfer them to a sanctuary, that request should be denied because the plaintiff is not likely to succeed on the merits of her claim that the defendant city of New Bedford is harming or harassing,
Nothing in a federal judge’s 32-page ruling in the fall of 2019 said Joyce Rowley had to stop caring about Ruth and Emily, two geriatric Asian elephants who have resided in her native New Bedford’s Buttonwood Park Zoo for more than three decades. And now that those elephants have had bouts with a painful foot .