Tag: judge gilbert roman
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Appeals court overturns orders by Arapahoe County magistrate who did not ‘recall this case’
Colorado’s second-highest court on Thursday overturned a series of orders from a divorce case where an Arapahoe County magistrate admitted he did not recall what was going on but proceeded to rule anyway. A three-judge Court of Appeals panel noted the procedural rules require judges and magistrates to specifically state their findings of facts and…
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Grant Sullivan, representing state officials from trial courts to SCOTUS, ceremonially sworn in as appeals judge
For years, Grant T. Sullivan had his name attached to high-profile, high-stakes cases filed against Colorado and its public officials in challenges to the state’s election laws, gun safety policies and its non-discrimination directives. At his formal swearing-in ceremony as a judge on the state’s Court of Appeals, Sullivan thanked the policymakers he formerly represented.…
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Pax Moultrie, longtime juvenile lawyer and judge, ceremonially sworn in to Court of Appeals
When she was a child, Pax L. Moultrie spent hours deconstructing the “fairness of playground rules,” her father recalled. “Your journey has been a testament to your unique blend of precocity and pragmatism. You devoured legal texts with the same fervor most youngsters reserve for comic books,” said Ben Moultrie, speaking last week to an…
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Heavy docket: Study recommends Colorado’s second-highest court expand by 25% to handle workload | COVER STORY
In the past two years, Chief Judge Gilbert M. Román has presided over five swearing-in ceremonies for new judges on Colorado’s second-highest court. He has repeatedly opened with the same disclaimer about the 22-member Court of Appeals. “This is considered a heavy-docket court,” Román says. Numerically speaking, that amounted to 1,745 written opinions issued in the last…