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United States: Denver Team Prevails On Summary Judgment Under Colorado's Felonious Flight Statute - Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP

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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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Intellectual property and Navajo water rights

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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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Can the ‘War’ on Gun Violence Learn From the Mistakes of the War on Drugs?

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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. The relationship between anti-gun and anti-drug initiatives becomes clear when looking at felony convictions.

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A second look at a death-row prisoner’s ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim

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Colorado Civil Rights Commission (relisted 14 times). Issue : Whether the statute of limitations for a 42 U.S.C. There are only a handful of cases that have been relisted more times before being granted, including Dobbs v. relisted after the Jan. 25, March 4, March 18 and March 25 conferences). Goertz , 21-442. relisted after the Feb.

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Court Leak on Abortion Sends Tremors Through African-American Community

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A 2013 study that examined 413 civil and criminal cases brought forward after Roe found that Black women were “significantly more likely to be arrested, reported to state authorities by hospital staff, and subjected to felony charges,” according to VICE News.

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Florida man subject to lifetime sex-offender registration requirements argues that he is “in custody” for purposes of federal post-conviction laws

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The failure to comply with these requirements is a felony under Florida law. He argues that there is a divide among the courts of appeals over whether similar sex-offender regimes place registrants “in custody” for purposes of the habeas statute. In support, Clements points to a 2019 ruling by the U.S. Cooperatieve Rabobank U.A.

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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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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