Colorado Court Rules Statute Tort 
SCOTUSBlog
MAY 29, 2025
The Supreme Court is making good progress in sorting through the current relists. United States , involving the scope of a statute that gives judges discretion to reduce criminal sentences for extraordinary and compelling reasons. Government contractors defenses to torts The GEO Group, Inc. This week it disposed of four.
The Volokh Conspiracy
JUNE 10, 2025
Indeed, this Court has consistently recognized that making "conduct" illegal or tortious abridges free speech when the conduct consists of speech that supposedly causes harm because of what it communicates. It is a mistake to say that the Colorado law "incidentally involves speech." Empire Storage & Ice Co. , 490 (1949).
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SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 2, 2025
The lower courts dismissed their case, concluding that the plaintiffs lacked a legal right to sue, known as standing. Bost and the electors then came to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to take up their appeal. Hencely came to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to take up his case, which they agreed to do on Monday.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
NOVEMBER 7, 2017
The court also dismissed defamation and related state tort claims. The court concluded that the forest products company had not pleaded actual malice with the level of specificity required to sustain the state law claims. The court granted the company leave to amend its complaint with 21 days. Save the Colorado v.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
OCTOBER 7, 2019
Colorado Federal Court Remanded Local Governments’ Climate Case to State Court. District Court Rejected Climate Change Arguments in Challenge to Listing Determination for Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout. The federal district court for the District of Colorado rejected arguments that the U.S. Rhode Island v.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
If the renewal license was an order, the First Circuit asked the state court to address whether the CCA expressly preempted the ordinance challenged in this case. Swiss Court Ruled that Imminent Danger of Climate Crisis Justified Protesters’ Actions. City of Oakland v.
SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 16, 2025
Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit affirmed , holding that because a federal agency now has the final say over how the private horse-racing authority implements the federal statute, the amended law did not impermissibly delegate authority to a private entity. In a one-paragraph order, the justices granted the authoritys request.
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