Law 360

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

A Colorado federal judge on Tuesday ruled that an engineering consulting firm is liable to telecommunications company Lumen Technologies for damages caused by a subcontractor's faulty structural analysis, but said she couldn't yet rule on whether Florida law and a two-year statute of limitation barred Lumen's claims against the firm.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 11, 2022

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether the statute of limitations in the Quiet Title Act is a jurisdictional rule or a claims-processing rule and whether the government can prosecute wire fraud under a “right to control” theory of property. In Wilkins v. United States.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 7, 2022

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether defendants have standing to assert violations of an extradition treaty and whether the wire fraud statute applies extraterritorially to reach a defendant’s conduct committed only in Nigeria. Guzman Loera v. Ojedokun v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2023

Share The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Wednesday in the case of a Colorado man who was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison for stalking based on the Facebook messages that he sent to local musician Coles Whalen. Colorado Attorney General Philip Weiser arguing for the state.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 5, 2021

That’s a lesson worth applying to current strategies addressing the epidemic of gun violence, writes Benjamin Levin , an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School. Benjamin Levin is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 9, 2021

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, the viability of certain types of disability-based claims under three federal statutes. The case is Board of County Commissioners of Weld County, Colorado v. Board of County Commissioners of Weld County, Colorado v.

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Mondaq

JULY 19, 2021

Denver Partner and Vice-Chair of Lewis Brisbois' Transportation Practice Katherine L. Vaughn, along with Associate Thomas P. Gerwick, were recently awarded summary judgment on behalf of an.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JULY 19, 2023

Colorado , 600 U.S. _ (2023), the U.S. 18–3–602(1)(c), a Colorado statute making it unlawful to “[r]epeatedly. Following Colorado law, the trial court rejected that argument under an objective standard, finding that a reasonable person would consider the messages threatening. The Colorado Supreme Court denied review.

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Patently O

AUGUST 25, 2024

The court vacated and remanded a fee award by Colorado Judge Brooke Jackson, finding that Judge Jackson abused her discretion when determining that the case was “exceptional” under the statute. Realtime Adaptive Streaming L.L.C. Sling TV, L.L.C. , 2023-1035 (Fed. 23, 2024).

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

also a Navajo Nation citizen, on the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Reservation, which is located in Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. The statute was later amended to allow, in limited situations, tribal court sentences of up to three years. Denezpi, a citizen of the Navajo Nation, is accused of a July 2017 sexual offense against V.Y.,

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The IP Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Allen won first place at the Colorado State Fair (the “Competition”) for the two-dimensional artwork entitled Théâtre D’opéra Spatial (the “Work”), which he produced with the aid of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”). By statute, registration is available for “original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression.”

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Hoban Law Group

JUNE 8, 2021

Food and Drug Administration (FDA), state regulations enforced by applicable state regulatory agencies (like the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment), organic labeling regulations enforced by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and more. These include federal labeling regulations enforced by the U.S.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 28, 2023

Supreme Court yesterday upheld the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s corporate registration statute, even though it requires out-of-state corporations registering to do business within the state to consent to all-purpose (general) personal jurisdiction. This post is by Maggie Gardner, a professor of law at Cornell Law School.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 17, 2023

Gregory Tucker was a science teacher at Faith Christian Academy, a religious school operated by the nondenominational Faith Bible Chapel in Arvada, Colorado. 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.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JANUARY 6, 2025

To eliminate the financial burden that reservists face when called to active duty at pay rates below their federal civilian salaries, Congress enacted the differential pay statute, 5 U.S.C. Eagle County, Colorado : The case involves how to interpret the Courts prior decision in Department of Transportation v. ” In Adams v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 23, 2018

There are eight other climate change tort cases pending: six alleging nuisance and a variety of other state common law violations in California courts, one claiming state public nuisance along with other state common law and statutory violations in Colorado, and one claiming state public nuisance and trespass in Washington.

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Broadcast Law Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

December 1 is also the deadline for noncommercial ownership reports to be filed by noncommercial radio stations in Alabama, Connecticut, Georgia, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont , and noncommercial television stations in Colorado, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota (see our Advisory here ).

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

And it is true that other states continue to look at various reform measures along these same lines, including Colorado, North Carolina and Illinois. This year, it opened the proposal to public comment , with the expectation that the state’s supreme court will vote on it sometime in 2022.

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JURIST

MARCH 10, 2023

Colorado Governor Jared Polis Friday signed a bill allowing those who have been convicted of a crime access to post-conviction DNA testing. The bill will take effect in Colorado’s criminal justice system in October 2023. The bill was supported and fully approved by both Houses in February 2023.

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LegalReader

MARCH 16, 2021

The Colorado Catholic Conference has claimed that removing the statute of limitations on institution-targeted lawsuits won't provide true justice.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

The court said the statutory language authorized courts to grant stays and that EPA’s reading of the statute “would have the perverse result of empowering this court to act when the agency denies a stay but not when it chooses to grant one.”

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Two other cases involve a dispute involving the Navajo Nation’s rights to Colorado River water. The Colorado River flows through seven southwestern states and the reservations of several Native American tribes, including the Navajo Nation. Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic International, Inc. trademarks. Navajo Nation and Arizona v.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The court previously addressed these issues in the 2018 case of a Colorado baker who had refused to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, citing his religious beliefs. She intends to post a message to this effect but has not yet done so for fear of violating Colorado’s anti-discrimination ordinance.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

And it is true that other states continue to look at various reform measures along these same lines, including Colorado, North Carolina and Illinois. This year, it opened the proposal to public comment , with the expectation that the state’s supreme court will vote on it sometime in 2022.

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2022

A federal court in California convicted Hansen of multiple counts of fraud, as well as convincing customers to overstay their visas and participate in his adoption program in violation of the encourage-or-induce statute. District courts have discretion to impose either consecutive or concurrent sentences unless a statute mandates otherwise.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The court ultimately decided Elonis on narrow statutory grounds rather than constitutional ones, holding that “a guilty mind is a necessary element” of the federal threat statute. The Colorado court of appeals affirmed, and the state supreme court denied review. Colorado , 22-138. Another disclosure: I represent Counterman.)

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Stanford Law School’s Filing Fairness Project which has partnered with state and local court systems and officials in Alaska, California, Colorado, Kansas, Michigan, Texas and Virginia, has helped establish the conditions necessary for the development of sustainable, multistate solutions to filing problems.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

19, members of the Colorado Sex Offender Management Board (SOMB ) took a critical first step in altering the language used to label those convicted of a sexual offense while in treatment towards a “person-first” perspective. But a second image shows a shadowy figure within the graphic of the Colorado state flag. Last week, on Nov.

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The Crime Report

MAY 2, 2022

Family members of people who have died from drug overdoses claim that Colorado police seemed disinterested in investigating their loved ones’ fentanyl deaths, reports the Denver Post. Brittany Pettersen, is learning to see those with drug-use problems – and especially those who die from them – as real people suffering health issues.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit and the Colorado and South Dakota Supreme Courts have considered such long-term surveillance a “search” because it infringes expectation of privacy that society is prepared to recognize as reasonable. In his petition, Tuggle argues that the U.S. Lamoureux v. Bethany Hospice and Palliative Care LLC.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Bowman , which addresses the scope of federal criminal statutes, into its current extraterritoriality framework. Meanwhile, lower courts struggled with how to fit the Supreme Court’s 1922 decision in United States v. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court interpreted the aiding and abetting provision of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) in Twitter, Inc.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 2, 2021

Supreme Court in 2017, but the justices sent the case back for another look after their ruling in Masterpiece Cakeshop , the Colorado case. The case will be argued sometime next fall. The end of the road for Arlene’s Flowers. Stutzman came to the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 27, 2023

Jack Phillip, the Colorado baker who brought the challenge in Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. Colorado Civil Rights Commission has again lost an appeal in Colorado state court. The Colorado Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday that the refusal to make the cake requested by Autumn Scardina did not constitute free speech.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 27, 2021

Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The case involved Charlie Craig and David Mullins who went to the Colorado cake shop of Jack Phillips to order a cake celebrating their earlier marriage in Massachusetts. The Colorado Civil Rights Division referred the case to the state’s Civil Rights Commission, which ruled against Phillips.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JULY 25, 2023

Supreme Court held that the First Amendment prohibits Colorado from forcing a website designer to create expressive designs speaking messages with which the designer disagrees. As the district court correctly held, Colorado may prohibit speech that promotes unlawful activity, including unlawful discrimination,” the court wrote. “As

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 20, 2024

Eagle County, Colorado , the coalition, supported by seven “friend of the court” briefs filed by Indian tribes, the state of Utah, and various interest groups, argues that NEPA does not require an agency to study environmental impacts beyond the proximate effects of the action over which the agency has regulatory authority. Kentucky ex rel.

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