A Massachusetts-based animal rights group is looking to fast-track it’s appeals fight to free three elephants from a Connecticut petting zoo.

The animal rights group, the Nonhuman Rights Project, is asking the state’s high court to hear an appeal currently before the Connecticut Appellate Court. In its motion to transfer, the NhRP says it’s hoping the highest court in the state can take the case because “the appeal involves novel issues of first impression that are of widespread legal and social significance that go beyond the circumstances of the present case … This appeal concerns pure questions of law regarding the fundamental and time-honored writ of habeas corpus.”