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

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The post Colorado Appeals Court Says A Drug Dog That Alerts On Now-Legal Weed Can’t Create Probable Cause For A Search appeared first on Above the Law.

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MARCH 6, 2024

“The Court’s Colorado Decision Wasn’t About the Law; This case wasn’t decided on its merits, and the result is an utterly flimsy legal argument”: George T. Conway III has this essay online at The Atlantic.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The Colorado Supreme Court approved Monday a congressional redistricting plan drawn by the state’s new Independent Congressional Redistricting Commission, despite objections that the new map dilutes Hispanic voting power.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 16, 2024

At least seven states have passed amendments in 2024 related to property rights: Louisiana , Illinois , Alaska , Pennsylvania , Alabama , Colorado and Wyoming. Illinois , Colorado , Pennsylvania and Alabama have all tied pore ownership to surface estate rights. Now some are turning their attention to pore space.

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Above The Law

MARCH 26, 2025

We will not stay silent in the face of efforts to remake the legal profession into something that rewards those who agree with the government and punishes those who do not. We cannot accept government actions that seek to twist the scales of justice in this manner. We reject efforts to undermine the courts and the profession.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Currently, if prisoners refuse to work, it is legal for prisons to impose disciplinary measures. Supporters of the measure argue that the legality of forced labor is a continuation of the US legacy of slavery. The ballot measure was rejected by a margin of 53.8 percent to 46.2 percent during the general election on November 5th.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 17, 2023

The federal government has ordered the seven Colorado River states to reduce their water usage by one-fifth. The Navajo Nation reservation is about the size of Ireland or West Virginia, with large portions bordered by the Colorado River. They have been the elephant in the room of Colorado River water apportionment for a century.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 11, 2021

As more states legalize pot, police departments across the country are finding it difficult to justify maintaining expensive K9 units that use specially-trained dogs to sniff out drugs, reports 1010WCSI.com. New York and New Jersey legalized recreational marijuana earlier this year, joining California, Colorado, Maine, Oregon and more.

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Diane Drain

JANUARY 22, 2023

September 1, 2023: TILA Disclosures re Index Rates; California Garnishment ; Minnesota Debt Collection December 1, 2023: Bankruptcy December 31, 2023: Utah Data Privacy Musings by Diane Consumer legal protections are rare.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 1, 2024

For poor defendants, this means that they have the right to be assigned a public defender, legal-aid lawyer, or court-appointed attorney. William Davis was driving in a state park outside Denver, Colorado, when a parks officer tried to pull him over for speeding. Davis appealed to the Colorado Court of Appeals, which reversed.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

A Colorado lawyer’s “demeaning and unprofessional language” and threats of disclosure in a demand letter seeking $50,000 for her client’s injuries at a Phish concert…

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JURIST

JULY 11, 2023

Conservationist groups Center for Biological Diversity and 350 Colorado filed a petition for review in the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on Monday against the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its air pollution practices.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The police killing of a Colorado man who prevented a mass shooting in 2021 underscores how laws allowing people who legally own a firearm to carry it openly in public or carry it in a concealed manner pose an increased risk to public safety, reports CNN.

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JURIST

JANUARY 1, 2023

New York has become the sixth state in the US to legalize this green method of burial. Washington became the first state to legalize human composting in 2019, followed by Colorado and Oregon in 2021, and Vermont and California in 2022. The body disintegrates into natural elements in about a month.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

eDiscovery Assistant , a legal research platform for e-discovery case law and resources, is today introducing AI-generated case law summaries. The feature uses ChatGPT to deliver one-paragraph summaries of court decisions, with the goal of enabling legal professionals to more quickly gauge the relevance and implications of a decision.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Republican leaders are calling for a prosecutor to enforce obscenity laws to remove hundreds of books from schools in the Colorado Springs area, Kyle Clark reports for NBC 9 News. Attempts to ban books are ongoing in several Colorado school districts.

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The Crime Report

JULY 22, 2021

The analysis found that the marijuana arrest rate for Black people (160 per 100,000) was more than double that of white people (76 per 100,000) in 2019 and that the disparity has not changed in any meaningful way since marijuana was legalized in Colorado in 2012.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

In 2021, Mesa County , Colorado hand counted ballots for the general election, paying approximately $80,000 for one week of work. The Campaign Legal Center criticized the new rule, stating that hand counting is unnecessarily time consuming and creates room for human error. Georgia is currently the only state in the U.S.

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EvidenceProf Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Colorado, 580 U.S. 206 (2017), the Supreme Court held that introducing evidence that encourages jurors to "deploy a dangerous racial stereotype to conclude [a defendant is] guilty" runs contrary to the need to "ensure that our legal. In Pena-Rodriguez v.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Six months after he completed his sentence, he was indicted and charged in the federal district court for the district of Colorado with aggravated sexual assault based on the same events. The post Supreme Court adds two cases involving Native Americans to docket appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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Law 360

APRIL 25, 2025

Meanwhile,regulators who oversee data privacy enforcement in California, Colorado and Oregon are pushing for companies to be more responsive and open to investigative inquiries. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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APRIL 30, 2021

In addition, states like Colorado and Washington, despite both legalizing marijuana in 2012, and cities like Los Angeles, which opened for business in 2018, have only just now begun to launch programs in pursuit of social equity. Additional reading: After Green Rush, Canada’s Legal Pot Suppliers Stumbling.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In the third quarter of 2024, Colorado's banking and financial services sector faced both regulatory updates and changes to state law due to recent federal court decisions — with consequences for local governments, mortgage lenders, state-chartered trust companies and federally chartered lenders serving Colorado consumers, says Sarah Auchterlonie at (..)

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 22, 2021

It is led by activists advocating for ecosystems such as rivers, lakes, and mountains to bear legal rights in the same, or at least a similar, manner as human beings. How would such a legal system work, and could giving rights to nature help in the legal battle against climate change? A few case studies offer some insight.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

As I survey the legal profession broadly, and the world of legal tech and innovation specifically, I see uncertainty and inertia. It is as if we are serving time in a legal tech limbo. After all, it was a good year for the legal tech industry. Overall, the legal tech industry saw unprecedented growth.

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JURIST

JULY 21, 2021

The plaintiffs are individuals and organizations who identify themselves as environmentalists and include natural resource conservation groups and cattle ranchers from Arizona, California, Colorado, and New Mexico. The ruling comes just days after a district court in Texas found that the entire DACA program was unlawful.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The Reasonableness of a Fee When Are Legal Fees Earned? They provide the client with some certainty about the cost of legal services and lawyers with more financial stability and consistency in taking on client matters. The demand for reasonableness of the legal services fee remains regardless of the method of collection.

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Law 360

AUGUST 25, 2023

Colorado is the most recent state to allow other types of legal providers, not just attorneys, to offer specific services in certain circumstances — and more states should rethink the century-old assumptions that shape our current regulatory rules, say Natalie Anne Knowlton and Janet Drobinske at the University of Denver.

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JURIST

JUNE 30, 2023

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. The US Supreme Court ruled Friday in 303 Creative LLC v.

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 6, 2022

“DUP’s Donaldson hails victory for ‘freedom of expression’ after European Court declares Ashers ‘gay cake’ case inadmissible; Gareth Lee’s legal team to consider fresh domestic case”: Ralph Hewitt of The Belfast Telegraph has this report.

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Above The Law

MARCH 23, 2023

Conducted by researchers at the University of Colorado medical school, the new report is the latest to gauge the extent of a costly problem that federal regulators are working to solve: Information about doctors varies from provider directory to provider directory.

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AUGUST 24, 2022

The biggest hurdle you’ll face is figuring out what type of license you need.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 21, 2023

Justices leaning toward the federal government and three western states worried that the Navajo Nation’s request for relief would upset the current allocation of the Colorado River water as the effects of a generation-long drought are being felt. The Supreme Court seemed evenly split at oral argument on Monday.

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The Crime Report

JULY 21, 2021

The Colorado Supreme Court has unanimously rejected a proposal that would fix a decades-old legal standard that has made it easy for attorneys to exclude people of color, especially African Americans, from serving on juries, reports the Colorado Sun.

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JURIST

APRIL 29, 2021

Conducting interviews with individuals from three states—Florida, Minnesota, and Colorado—the organization found “having driver’s licenses suspended for inability to pay fines and fees forced people to either give up their job or to drive with a suspended license.” “Out legal system should benefit the people it serves.

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Above The Law

JUNE 1, 2022

Congratulations to LGBTQ+ parents in Colorado, New Hampshire, California, Maryland, and New Jersey for having a less painful legal option for family protection. The post The Bad News Is That Nonbirthing Moms Now, More Than Ever, Need To Adopt Their Own Children. The Good News Is That At Least Some States Are Making That Easier.

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