Tag: solicitation
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10th Circuit dismisses constitutional challenge to Colorado’s charitable solicitation law
The federal appeals court based in Denver dismissed a constitutional challenge to a portion of Colorado’s law governing paid nonprofit solicitors, determining on Friday that the lawsuit against Secretary of State Jena Griswold was now moot. Colorado’s legislature enacted the Charitable Solicitations Act after finding fraudulent solicitations on behalf of charities were a “widespread practice”…
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Appeals court rules class action lawsuits not dead even when there is no ‘class’
Colorado’s second-highest court clarified on Thursday that lawsuits filed as class actions may still proceed for the individual named plaintiffs in the event a judge declines to authorize the class portion. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals noted the U.S. Supreme Court, for federal cases, has ruled the lack of a class does…