Tag: tenant
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Colorado Supreme Court approves tenant-friendly rule change, broadens professional discipline for sexual misconduct
The Colorado Supreme Court approved a set of rule changes last week that will make it easier for tenants facing eviction to respond to and learn about their landlord’s initial court filing, and for lawyers to be held professionally accountable for unlawful sexual conduct. On Dec. 11, the justices enacted a change to the civil…
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Colorado Supreme Court retracts decision recognizing right to jury trial in eviction cases
The Colorado Supreme Court took the extraordinary step on Monday of retracting its two-month-old decision recognizing tenants have the right to a jury trial in certain eviction disputes. In a three-page, unsigned order, the Supreme Court explained its prior opinion “rested on a factual premise that the Court has now been advised was inaccurate.” Rather…
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Colorado justices, 4-2, rule tenants have right to a jury trial in eviction cases
Noting that trial judges across the state are routinely denying tenants the ability to have a jury hear their eviction cases, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Monday that certain types of disputes do qualify for a jury trial after all. By 4-2, the Supreme Court’s majority acknowledged the concern that county courts, where evictions…
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Colorado Supreme Court accepts 2 cases on Jeffco slip-and-fall, landlord-tenant dispute
The Colorado Supreme Court announced on Monday it will hear multiple cases that address when lawsuits may proceed if people are injured by dangerous conditions on government property, and what relief is available to tenants when the terms of their lease do not comply with state law. At least three of the court’s seven members…
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Colorado justices rule tenants may cite landlords’ discrimination as defense to eviction
The Colorado Supreme Court clarified on Tuesday that tenants defending against an eviction may cite their landlords’ illegal, discriminatory conduct as means to stay in their homes. Last year, the legislature passed a law explicitly providing that a renter can defend against eviction if they show their landlord violated the Colorado Fair Housing Act and…