Tag: Supreme Court
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SCOTUS hears challenge to Colorado stalking law, with questions about modern ‘sensitivity’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save For nearly two years, Billy Raymond Counterman sent a musician thousands of unsolicited Facebook messages, carrying on a one-way conversation as if he had a relationship with her. Then things escalated. “Was that you in the white Jeep?” “I’m currently unsupervised. I know, it freaks…
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Federal judge narrowly blocks new Colorado abortion law
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A federal judge on Saturday issued a narrow order blocking enforcement of a newly-enacted Colorado law that cracks down on treatments to purportedly reverse medication-induced abortions. On April 14, Gov. Jared Polis signed Senate Bill 190 as part of a package of measures bolstering reproductive rights in…
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Woman’s 14-month detention in Aurora immigration facility violates Constitution, federal judge finds
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save While the U.S. Supreme Court has deemed it acceptable for authorities to detain immigrants facing deportation for a “brief period,” a federal judge ruled on Monday that a woman’s 14-month detention in Aurora without a bond hearing violated her constitutional right to due process. U.S.…
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Federal judge dismisses retaliation claim against Jeffco district, allows claim against blogger
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A federal judge has dismissed an attorney’s retaliation claim against her former employer, a special district based in Lakewood, while at the same time permitting the lawyer’s defamation claim against a blogger to proceed. Mary Joanne “Jo” Deziel Timmins sued the Green Mountain Water and Sanitation…
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Supreme Court orders Colorado sheriff to turn over video surveillance of attorney-client meetings to defendant
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Supreme Court has ordered the Archuleta County Sheriff’s Office to turn over the videos it recorded of a defendant’s jailhouse meetings with his attorneys — revelations that already led to one mistrial and could result in sanctions or the removal of the district…
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Colorado judge’s financial conflict does not require reopening case, 10th Circuit finds
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A federal judge did violate the law when he failed to recuse himself from a case, but there is no need to reopen the lawsuit or overturn his rulings, the federal appeals court based in Denver decided on Thursday. In what appears to be the…
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Prosecutors, defense lawyers blindsided by new ‘reasonable doubt’ instruction
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s prosecutors and criminal defense attorneys were caught off guard on Friday by a small judicial committee’s quiet change to the longstanding definition of “beyond a reasonable doubt” in the template instructions for jury trials. While prosecutors appeared cautiously supportive of the rewrite, defense lawyers…
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Masterpiece Cakeshop violated anti-discrimination law again, Colorado appeals court finds
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save For the second time in nearly eight years, Colorado’s second-highest court has agreed Masterpiece Cakeshop, Inc. violated the state’s antidiscrimination law by refusing to sell a cake to an LGBTQ customer. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals concluded the store’s owner, Jack Phillips,…
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SCOTUS takes up ‘true threats’ case out of Colorado, the latest in a series of state court appeals
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The nation’s highest court has shone a spotlight on Colorado’s typically low-profile Court of Appeals, agreeing to review a decision of the 22-member court for the second time in under a decade. The U.S. Supreme Court, in granting appeals, occasionally gives the green-light to federal…
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Colorado Supreme Court takes control of sprawling property tax challenges in wake of pandemic
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Supreme Court has assumed control over four virtually identical cases at the unusual behest of the state’s Court of Appeals, wading into a flood of challenges filed by commercial property owners who want counties to reduce the value of their properties because of…