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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Above The Law

JUNE 29, 2022

The Court ruled in favor of a party’s constitutionally-based privacy right to reproduce or not reproduce over a sincerely held religious belief that embryos are people. . The post Colorado Court Of Appeals Rules For Privacy Rights In Embryo Dispute appeared first on Above the Law.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The Supreme Court on Tuesday tossed out a pair of lower-court rulings that had permitted states to enforce COVID-related restrictions at worship services. 25 ruling that lifted New York’s COVID-related limits on attendance at worship services. In the Colorado case , the justices threw out an Aug. 4, after the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

He did note a “silver lining,” offering suggestions on how the Nation can still attempt to intervene in ongoing Colorado River water rights litigation to assert its treaty rights to water. The post Supreme Court rules 5-4 against Navajo Nation in water rights dispute appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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EvidenceProf Blog

MAY 31, 2021

Kentucky, the Supreme Court "ruled that a State may not discriminate on the basis of race when exercising peremptory challenges against prospective jurors in a criminal trial."* In Batson v. Under Batson, once the opponent of a peremptory challenge has.

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ABA Journal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Police officers in Colorado Springs, Colorado, violated the Fourth Amendment rights of a drug suspect when they erected a pole camera to record video of…

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JURIST

APRIL 6, 2023

In 2021 a federal district court ruled that the government was partially responsible for the deaths due to negligence. The settlement issued Wednesday will resolve all appeals from this ruling. As a Colorado citizen, federal law required Kelley to pass a background check for an out-of-state firearm purchases in Texas.

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JURIST

APRIL 22, 2022

.” Justice Thomas, who wrote the majority in Reed , wrote: “Reed provided a clear and neutral rule that protected the freedom of speech from governmental caprice and viewpoint discrimination, I would adhere to that precedent rather than risk resuscitating Hill.”

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JURIST

JUNE 30, 2023

The US Supreme Court ruled Friday in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis that a Colorado-based web designer cannot be compelled to create wedding websites for LGBTQ+ couples, despite the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act (CADA) which protects LGBTQ+ people from discrimination in public accommodations.

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HowAppealing

JULY 21, 2021

“10th Circuit declines to name international travel a fundamental right while upholding tax law”: Michael Karlik of Colorado Politics has this report online at The Gazette of Colorado Springs. Passports Can Be Revoked Over Tax Debt, Appeals Court Rules.”

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JURIST

JUNE 22, 2023

The US Supreme Court ruled Thursday that an 1868 peace treaty between the US government and the Navajo Tribe does not require the government to secure water access for the tribe. In a 5-4 ruling in Arizona v.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

And the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (David Post, The Volokh Conspiracy) Appeals court ruling says alleged domestic abusers have a constitutional right to keep their guns (Roxanna Asgarian, The Texas Tribune) The post The morning read for Friday, Feb. 10 appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 6, 2022

.” Chiara Giordano of The Independent (UK) reports that “ ‘Gay cake’ legal challenge thrown out by European Court of Human Rights; Gareth Lee failed to ‘exhaust domestic remedies’ in seven-year legal case against Christian bakers who refused to make cake with pro-gay marriage slogan, court rules.”

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Some jurisdictions have proactively addressed flat fees in their rules. In Colorado, Rule 1.5(h) Colorado has even published a sample flat-fee agreement here. Other states that mention flat fees in their rules include California, Florida and Massachusetts. The ‘Reasonable Test’ Remains Universal.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Perhaps unsurprisingly, two involve cases in which the court called for the views of the solicitor general, thus indicating (since it takes the vote of four justices to CVSG ) that there was already a high level of interest among the justices in the case. Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic International, Inc. trademarks.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 20, 2025

At its last conference, it granted review of a one-time relist asking whether federal courts must follow state law requiring medical malpractice claims to be supported by an expert affidavit. The court also agreed to take up a twice-relisted challenge to Colorados ban on conversion therapy.

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 22, 2022

Colorado Bar Association Formal Opinion 126 : Representing the Adult Client With Diminished Capacity. A lawyer may be faced with making difficult determinations and, when necessary, take protective measures, even when they may go against the client’s wishes. Resources: ABA Formal Opinion 96-404, Client Under a Disability.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 26, 2021

The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear an appeal to expand gun rights in the United States in a New York case over the right to carry a firearm in public for self-defense, marking the court’s first foray into gun rights since Justice Amy Coney Barrett came on board in October, making a 6-3 conservative majority, reports the Chicago Tribune.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

I have the honor of speaking today at the Tenth Circuit judicial conference in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I will be part of a panel discussing the Supreme Court’s recent religious freedom cases and related First Amendment issues. Lucero of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. In Kennedy v.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 3, 2022

The doctrine, created by a 1982 Supreme Court ruling meant to protect government employees from frivolous lawsuits, is frequently used by police and other law enforcement officials to head off lawsuits over excessive use of force or misconduct. Having indisputable facts does not always help. Daryl James.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 18, 2024

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. Kentucky , the Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional to strike jurors in a criminal trial because of their race. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. United States and Rita v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Before trial, the district court rejected Struve’s argument that the officers had violated the Fourth Amendment in pulling him over without reasonable suspicion because they could not tell whether he was texting or using his cellphone legally. In his petition, Tuggle argues that the U.S.

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The Crime Report

JULY 8, 2021

Governor of California , the courts ruled that indefinite confinement of alleged gang members was a human rights violation. That ruling resulted in the state of California having to reduce its solitary confinement population by 97 percent. In Ashker v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 17, 2023

This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, at what stage of litigation the ministerial exception should come into play. Gregory Tucker was a science teacher at Faith Christian Academy, a religious school operated by the nondenominational Faith Bible Chapel in Arvada, Colorado.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 30, 2022

Colorado Civil Rights Commission (relisted 14 times). As a statistical matter , a case that the Supreme Court repeatedly relists is more likely to be the subject of an opinion respecting denial or — where existing precedent is clear — a summary reversal or vacatur.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 29, 2021

The Tenth Circuit upheld the district court decision in favor of the IRS and its authority to conduct the audit. Thomas noted that in 2005 a fractured divided court ruled Gonzales v. Peter Hermes, Kevin Desilet, Samantha Murphy, and John Murphy refused to verify their tax liabilities because they feared criminal prosecution.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

A sheriff’s sergeant in Colorado also read the FBI bulletin and, weeks later, asked Adams to analyze a 911 tape from a widow suspected of killing her husband. Local police asked the Colorado Bureau of Investigation to help find out who did it. She and Harpster wrote a report of their findings. “OK

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HowAppealing

JULY 5, 2023

“‘Sham’ website customer likely didn’t affect Supreme Court ruling on same-sex weddings, experts say; Legal experts shot down the idea that an apparently bogus inquiry to a site designer in Colorado opposed to same-sex marriages played a key role in last week’s decision”: Dareh Gregorian of NBC News has this report. (..)

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JURIST

JULY 5, 2021

Back in 2017, the Washington Supreme Court ruled against Ms. In rejecting these exemptions, the court emphasized Ingersoll and Freed’s statements that the “ case [was] no more about access to flowers than civil rights cases in the 1960s were about access to sandwiches.”

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a West Virginia federal district court had erred in concluding that it had jurisdiction to consider the coal company Murray Energy Corporation’s and its affiliates’ lawsuit that sought to compel EPA to conduct evaluations of the Clean Air Act’s employment effects.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The federal district court for the District of Columbia granted BLM’s and federal officials’ motion for voluntary remand without vacatur of claims that they failed to comply with NEPA in connection with 27 oil and gas leasing decisions across Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Montana between September 2016 and March 2019.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, a potential replacement for the now-dismissed Servotronics Inc. Oklahoma should apply retroactively, and whether the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act violates a website designer’s First Amendment rights. In last year’s McGirt v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 2, 2021

Montana Department of Revenue , the Supreme Court ruled that although states are not required to subsidize private education, states that choose to do so cannot exclude religious schools from receiving funding simply because they are religious. A new case on public funding and religious education. Last year, in Espinoza v.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 27, 2021

The Tenth Circuit decision reaffirms a growing conflict among the circuits and offers an especially strong case for the Court to consider such a major reframing of such conflicts. The Court disappointed many when it found an off-ramp in the Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. See supra, III.B.1.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Elenis , is a challenge by a Colorado website designer to a state law that bars businesses that are open to the public from discriminating against gay people or announcing their intent to do so. Colorado counters that exempting Smith from the law would open a Pandora’s box that would “upend antidiscrimination law – and other laws too.”.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Share The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Monday in the case of Lorie Smith , a website designer and devout Christian who wants to expand her business to include wedding websites – but only for opposite-sex couples. Smith is challenging a Colorado law that prohibits most businesses from discriminating against LGBTQ customers.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 4, 2022

One judge has temporarily blocked a Colorado town from enforcing a ban on the sale and possession of certain semi-automatic weapons. In Massachusetts, for example, police chiefs can no longer deny or impose restrictions on licenses just because the applicant doesn’t have a “good reason” to carry a gun.

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