JURIST

JANUARY 4, 2024

Former President Donald Trump filed an appeal Wednesday asking the US Supreme Court to reverse the Colorado Supreme Court decision barring him from the state’s ballot. He asked the court to overrule the Colorado decision and “return the right to vote for their candidate of choice to the voters.”

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JURIST

JANUARY 5, 2024

The US Supreme Court agreed to hear former President Donald Trump’s appeal of the Colorado Supreme Court decision barring him from the state’s 2024 primary ballot. Although the question falls largely along partisan lines, some liberal critics oppose Trump’s removal from the ballot and some conservative legal scholars support it.

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HowAppealing

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

“There’s Time for Supreme Court Rulings on Trump Cases; The Colorado case and the Jan. 6 immunity claim are exactly the sort of major legal issues we want the highest court to decide thoughtfully”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 20, 2023

“Colorado Supreme Court justices face a flood of threats after disqualifying Trump from the ballot; The latest round of threats fits a familiar pattern: Trump faces a legal setback, and officials face threats.” ” Ryan J. Reilly of NBC News has this report. ” appeared first on How Appealing.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

A Colorado grand jury on Wednesday formally indicted three police officers and two paramedics in the 2019 killing of Elijah McClain , a young Black man who died while in police custody after he was stopped when walking home from a store. McClain never regained consciousness and was declared brain dead six days later at a Colorado hospital.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 5, 2024

Share The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to review a ruling by a Colorado court that barred former President Donald Trump from appearing on the state’s Republican primary ballot because of his role in the Jan. The challengers appealed to the Colorado Supreme Court, which reversed in a ruling last month. 6, 2021, attacks on the U.S.

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JURIST

MARCH 24, 2021

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Tuesday settled an agreement with the Colorado Office of Administrative Courts (OAC) to offer language assistance to people with limited English proficiency (LEP) in the Colorado court system. The OAC hears claims related to workers’ compensation, civil rights, and education among others.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 20, 2023

“Supreme Court takes center stage in the Trump legal battles; The justices will soon decide whether to weigh in on Trump’s broad immunity claim in his election interference case and his forthcoming appeal seeking to block a Colorado ruling that says he is ineligible to run for office”: Lawrence Hurley of NBC News has this report.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked enforcement of COVID-19 restrictions for religious gatherings in New Jersey and Colorado until district courts can hear the cases. Your gift of $50, $100, $200 or $500 will help JURIST to keep its legal news and commentary free and accessible to a worldwide public. Thanks for your support!

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JURIST

MARCH 17, 2021

The Colorado State Supreme Court on Monday ruled that having computers speed-read bills on the legislative floor is unconstitutional. The Colorado constitution provides that all bills that come before the legislature shall be read aloud on two different days in each house, unless all the members present consent to waive the reading.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

An independent investigation released on Monday found that Aurora, Colorado, police officers had no legal basis to stop, frisk, and use a chokehold on Elijah McClain. McClain, a 23-year-old Black man, died after an August 2019 encounter with police and paramedics during which he was restrained and sedated.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 20, 2023

“Will Conservative Supreme Court Stick to Values in Trump Ruling in Colorado? ” And in commentary, online at The New York Times, Jesse Wegman has an essay titled “ The Colorado Ruling Is a Rebuke for the Ages.” ” The post “Will Conservative Supreme Court Stick to Values in Trump Ruling in Colorado?

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JURIST

JANUARY 13, 2021

The Colorado Supreme Court updated the definition of common-law marriage to include LGBTQ+ individuals with three rulings handed down on Monday. ” Colorado courts previously used a list of factors called the Lucero test to judge whether a couple’s conduct signified a common-law marriage. Hodges 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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JURIST

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

The US District Court for the District of Colorado on Friday sentenced white supremacist Richard Holzer to 19.5 years in prison for the federal hate crime of planning to blow up the Temple Emanuel Synagogue in Pueblo, Colorado. Holzer, a self-identifying Neo-Nazi and white supremacist, was arrested in November 2019.

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HowAppealing

JULY 5, 2023

The post “‘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” appeared first on How Appealing.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 22, 2023

“Push to Disqualify Trump Pits Democracy Against the Rule of Law; If the Colorado Supreme Court is right that the former president is constitutionally ineligible to run for president, fundamental values are in severe tension”: Charlie Savage of The New York Times has this news analysis.

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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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JURIST

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Reid Neureiter of the District of Colorado Monday ordered attorneys Ernest Walker and Gary Fielder to pay $187,000 in legal fees to their opponents for a case they filed in December of 2020. US Magistrate Judge N. The case argued that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former President Donald Trump.

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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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HowAppealing

JANUARY 11, 2021

“Colorado’s Supreme Court first in U.S. to revamp common-law marriage for same-sex couples; Justices use 3 rulings to create new legal standard for common-law marriage in Colorado”: Shelly Bradbury of The Denver Post has this report.

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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

MAY 3, 2022

Colorado Governor Jared Polis has signed a new bill into law requiring sex workers be able to report serious crimes without facing criminal charges related to their work, reports the Denver Post.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Monday will revisit a long-simmering tension between legal protections for LGBTQ people and the rights of business owners who oppose same-sex marriage. 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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ABA Journal

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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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 17, 2023

Share There is no dispute that the Facebook messages Billy Raymond Counterman sent to local Colorado musician Coles Whalen made her feel afraid. But the state of Colorado, which prosecuted Counterman, counters that Counterman’s messages frightened their recipient and disrupted her life. In early English and U.S.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The challenge, like the one the US Supreme Court agreed to take up from Colorado, dealt with Trump’s eligibility to appear on the state’s ballot based on Section 3 of the US Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment —what is commonly known as the “disqualification clause.”

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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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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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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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JURIST

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

” Similar arguments were used in Colorado and Maine. In analyzing the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling, she found their argument for removal “compelling.” The order comes as the US Supreme Court is set to rule on Colorado’s decision to remove Trump from their ballot.

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JURIST

JANUARY 20, 2024

Colorado has already removed him from their ballot. These state actions and legal challenges in 35 states so far indicate a widespread legal debate. The US Supreme Court’s upcoming decision in the Colorado case is crucial.

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JURIST

JANUARY 5, 2024

Their efforts join with several others after Maine and Colorado already agreed to remove Trump from their respective ballots. The challenges come as Trump’s legal team is in the process of appealing decisions from Maine and Colorado that exclude him from the primary ballot.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 1, 2022

The House was scheduled to vote Friday on a bill that would legalize marijuana nationally. But full legalization is entirely different. Legalization opens the door to the mass normalization and commercialization of a product that does, in fact, present greater public health risks than its proponents would want the public to believe.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Supreme Court declines to take the case or otherwise affirms the Colorado Supreme Court ruling.” The Colorado Secretary of State issued a press release that stated in part: “The Colorado Republican Party has appealed the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision in Anderson v. Currently, Colorado is an outlier.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The third and final trial over the 2019 death of Elijah McClain enters largely uncharted legal territory, according to experts, because it involves homicide and manslaughter charges against two paramedics, Colleen Slevin and Mathew Brown reports for the Associated Press. Aurora, Colorado Fire Department paramedics Jeremy Cooper and Lt.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2024

Below is my column in The Messenger on the challenge facing the Supreme Court in the coming week over the electoral disqualification of former president Donald Trump in Colorado and Maine. Colorado is expected to file with the Court this week. 4th, Colorado could seek to moot any appeal and avoid review. The ruling in Bush v.

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