JURIST

JUNE 22, 2023

The Supreme Court of the State of Colorado struck down the state’s Child Sexual Abuse Accountability Act (CSAAA) on Tuesday, ruling that the law violates the state constitution and is “unconstitutionally retrospective.” ” The Colorado General Assembly passed the CSAAA in 2021. ” Justice Monica M.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

A Colorado jury returned a not guilty verdict on Monday for a third police officer charged in the 2019 death of 23-year-old Elijah McClain. In October, a Colorado jury found one of the officers, Randy Roedema, guilty of criminally negligent homicide but acquitted another officer, Jason Rosenblatt.

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JURIST

MARCH 17, 2021

The Colorado State Supreme Court on Monday ruled that having computers speed-read bills on the legislative floor is unconstitutional. The Colorado constitution provides that all bills that come before the legislature shall be read aloud on two different days in each house, unless all the members present consent to waive the reading.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Two Colorado police officers were charged with felonies on Monday for leaving a handcuffed woman in a car that was parked on train tracks in September. The post Colorado police officers charged for abandoning handcuffed woman in squad car to be hit by train appeared first on JURIST - News.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

The US District Court for the District of Colorado on Friday sentenced white supremacist Richard Holzer to 19.5 years in prison for the federal hate crime of planning to blow up the Temple Emanuel Synagogue in Pueblo, Colorado. Holzer, a self-identifying Neo-Nazi and white supremacist, was arrested in November 2019.

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 13, 2024

“Break-in at Colorado Supreme Court building caused $35 million in damage, left 3 floors unusable; Brandon Olsen, 44, is accused of setting fire inside building that triggered sprinklers to run for hours”: Shelly Bradbury of The Denver Post has this report.

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ABA Journal

MAY 30, 2023

Family courts in Colorado custody cases can’t cut off a child’s contact with a protective parent to whom they are bonded just to improve a relationship with a rejected parent accused of abuse or domestic violence, according to a bill signed into law last week.

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EvidenceProf Blog

JANUARY 14, 2022

Similar to its federal counterpart, Colorado Rule of Evidence 901(a) provides that The requirement of authentication or identification as a condition precedent to admissibility is satisfied by evidence sufficient to support a finding that the matter in question is what.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 17, 2024

” Similarly, hand-counting can be expensive, as seen in Mesa County, Colorado, which cost the county $80,000 for one week of hand-counting votes in 2021. For example, in the smallest Nevada County, Esmeralda , it took over “seven hours to hand count 317 ballots in the 2022 primary.”

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ABA Journal

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The Colorado Supreme Court considered last week whether five wild-born zoo elephants should be considered "persons" entitled to seek liberty through a habeas corpus petition.…

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LegalReader

JUNE 27, 2022

Decades deep in megadrought and damaged by the climate crisis, seven states will soon be obligated to stop using an Arizona's-worth of Colorado River water.

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The post Colorado Loses Again, Has To Pay 303 Creative’s Legal Fees appeared first on Above the Law. Shame they can't "Free Speech" their way out of this tab.

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Above The Law

MAY 8, 2024

The post How Expensive Will Colorado Sperm Be, Come 2025? Proposed rules enacting a law that will significantly change sperm and egg donation for Coloradans are up for an official vote of approval next week. appeared first on Above the Law.

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JURIST

APRIL 15, 2024

Colorado’s House of Representatives passed HB 1292 Sunday by a vote of 35-27. ” Multiple gun regulations were signed last year, like raising the age to 21 in Colorado after the most recent shooting at a nightclub.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

An independent investigation released on Monday found that Aurora, Colorado, police officers had no legal basis to stop, frisk, and use a chokehold on Elijah McClain. McClain, a 23-year-old Black man, died after an August 2019 encounter with police and paramedics during which he was restrained and sedated.

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Colorado River states again failed to arrive at a consensus plan for water use reduction. Watching how this unfolds will be instructive for navigating future resource shortages.

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The post Colorado Donor-Conceived Person Protection Law Opens Public Comments On Proposed Rules appeared first on Above the Law. The first of four Zoom sessions is on November 1.

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JURIST

JANUARY 10, 2025

The filing also listed violations under 10 different state laws whose respective jurisdictions are party to the case, including California, North Carolina, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oregon, Tennessee, and Washington.

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EvidenceProf Blog

MAY 26, 2021

The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and article II, section 7 of the Colorado Constitution protect against “unreasonable searches and seizures.” However, because the Fourth Amendment is silent regarding how this right is to be enforced, the Supreme.

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ABA Journal

JANUARY 3, 2024

A gunman accused of breaking into the Colorado Supreme Court building in Denver by shooting out a window early Tuesday has been arrested on charges…

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HowAppealing

OCTOBER 9, 2024

“Colorado court ducks deciding if baker could refuse to make LGBTQ-themed cake”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report on a 4-to-3 ruling that the Supreme Court of Colorado issued yesterday.

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HowAppealing

OCTOBER 5, 2022

“Colorado baker fighting ruling over gender transition cake”: Colleen Slevin of The Associated Press has this report. The post “Colorado baker fighting ruling over gender transition cake” appeared first on How Appealing.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The Colorado Springs Police Department Monday announced that the arrest warrant for alleged gunman Anderson Lee Aldrich is sealed, and formal charges will be filed in the coming weeks. Aldrich allegedly carried out a mass shooting at LGBTQ Colorado nightclub Club Q on Saturday night, killing five people. The charges were later dropped.

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HowAppealing

JUNE 18, 2024

“Colorado Supreme Court takes up Christian baker’s refusal to create gender-transition cake”: Valerie Richardson of The Washington Times has this report. And Mead Gruver of The Associated Press reports that “ Colorado justices consider a pink and blue cake’s meaning in a transgender discrimination case.”

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JURIST

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A Colorado court Tuesday sentenced the suspect accused of killing five and injuring 19 in Club Q, a LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado on November 19. This situation questions whether Colorado’s red flag law was applicable to Aldrich and would it have prevented these deaths.

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JURIST

JUNE 26, 2023

Anderson Lee Aldrich , the gunman who killed five during an attack on an LGBTQIA+ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, pleaded guilty in court Monday to five counts of murder, 46 counts of attempted murder and no contest to two bias-motivated crimes. The charges were later dropped.

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 26, 2023

“Colorado baker loses appeal over refusal to make gender transition cake”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report. And Colleen Slevin of The Associated Press reports that “ Colorado baker loses appeal over transgender birthday cake.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 27, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out the conviction of Billy Raymond Counterman, a Colorado man who was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison for stalking based on his Facebook messages. She canceled appearances, started to carry a gun, and eventually left Colorado for the east coast.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

A new report on crime in Colorado for the first half of 2022 shows crime has increased in seven major categories, including robbery, arson and vehicle theft along with buying stolen property, vandalism, prostitution and drug possession and sales, reports Austen Erblat for CBS News. The property crime rate in Colorado is 28.3,

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HowAppealing

MARCH 7, 2024

“With Colorado ruling, the court displays an ‘originalism of convenience’”: Columnist Ruth Marcus has this essay online at The Washington Post. The post “With Colorado ruling, the court displays an ‘originalism of convenience’” appeared first on How Appealing.

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 22, 2024

“The Colorado cake wars continue, with a literally colorful twist”: Law professor Andrew Koppelman has this essay online at The Hill. The post “The Colorado cake wars continue, with a literally colorful twist” appeared first on How Appealing.

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ABA Journal

MARCH 10, 2025

Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether a Colorado ban on conversion therapy for LGBTQ minors—which aims to change sexual orientation or…

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 2, 2024

“Armed man breaks into Colorado Supreme Court building, causes ‘significant and extensive’ damage; Suspect is in custody and nobody was injured in early morning incident, Colorado State Patrol says”: Jacob Factor and Shelly Bradbury of The Denver Post have this report.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 21, 2023

“The Legal Merits of the Colorado Supreme Court Decision Don’t Matter”: Eric Levitz has this post at the “Intelligencer” blog of New York magazine. The post “The Legal Merits of the Colorado Supreme Court Decision Don’t Matter” appeared first on How Appealing.

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HowAppealing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

“Colorado to pay web designer’s legal fees after losing LGBTQ anti-bias law case”: Mike Scarcella of Reuters has this report.

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Above The Law

MARCH 26, 2025

Here’s the current list: American Bar Association Alameda County (California) Bar Association Alexandria (Virginia) Bar Association Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers Bar Association of Erie County (New York) Bar Association of Metropolitan St.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Anderson : The Section 3 Case Before The Colorado Supreme Court.” Anderson: The Section 3 Case Before The Colorado Supreme Court.” “ Griswold v. ” Josh Blackman and Seth Barrett Tillman have this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.” ” The post “Griswold v.

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