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Federal judge lifts public access restriction on Children’s Hospital Colorado’s challenge to DOJ subpoena
A federal judge ordered last month that the public be able to access the filings in Children’s Hospital Colorado’s legal challenge to a U.S. Department of Justice subpoena seeking a broad range of documents about patients, employees and communications. Children’s Colorado sought to keep its case shielded from public view, arguing that disclosing the details…
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Judicial discipline commission compares SCOTUS ethical lapses to state judges’ disclosure violations
In an unusually detailed and strongly worded report, Colorado’s judicial discipline body made clear on Friday that dozens of judges broke the law by failing to file financial disclosure statements on time, but that not every instance merited discipline in light of related behavior from the nation’s highest court. The Colorado Commission on Judicial Discipline…
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10th Circuit judge, lawyers speak about ‘blockbuster-plus’ SCOTUS term at FedSoc event
A federal appeals judge from Colorado, the solicitor general of Missouri and a senior advisor to a Republican senator offered their thoughts on Tuesday about the U.S. Supreme Court’s most recent term, the magnitude of the court’s conservative lean and the impacts to the federal government’s regulatory powers going forward. “People are saying, ‘Ah, it’s…