Author: Colorado Politics

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a constitutional challenge to the overnight field trip policy of Jeffco Public Schools, filed by multiple families who objected to rooming assignments based on students’ gender identities as opposed to their sex assigned at birth. U.S. District Court Judge…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s second-highest court ordered a new trial on Thursday for a defendant whose 16-minute statement mid-trial, which had no basis in criminal procedure and was described by one judge as a “train wreck,” resulted in a constitutionally unfair proceeding. Jefferson County prosecutors charged Riddick Amoako-Asiamah with…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s second-highest court on Thursday reversed a Douglas County judge’s decision to impose more than $850,000 in sanctions on a pair of litigants and their lawyer without explaining why the amount was justified. A three-judge Court of Appeals panel noted there are multiple legal tools…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Six months after the nation’s highest court ruled that a man could theoretically reopen his age discrimination case to contest an arbitrator’s unfair decision, the Denver-based federal appeals court determined he could not actually do so under the procedural rules. As a result, plaintiff Gary…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s second-highest court last week directed a Jefferson County judge to reconsider a man’s request for Lakewood police to return his car, which the city declined to release even after his criminal case was resolved. Police arrested Kameron Murphy in September 2022 and charged him…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The panel charged with enacting protocols governing the judicial discipline process has released a set of new rules for public comment. Last November, voters approved constitutional Amendment H to reform how Colorado disciplines its judges. The changes reduced the role of the state Supreme Court, enabled information-sharing about judges’…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Three of Colorado’s sitting federal judges taught part-time at the University of Colorado’s law school while they handled civil cases involving the university or associated entities. On July 30, the advocacy group Fix the Court released…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will review whether the state’s requirement that ballot issue advocacy groups disclose the name of their legal representative on their election communications violates the First Amendment. At least three of the court’s seven members must agree to hear an…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Denver-based federal appeals court concluded on Friday that a judge imposed sex offender treatment for a defendant’s attempted bank robbery conviction in violation of federal sentencing rules. James Robert Clark is serving 78 months in prison for an attempted December 2023 bank robbery in…