Author: Kathleen Foody, The Associated Press
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Colorado settles suit by transgender inmate who alleged rape
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Colorado reached a $170,000 settlement with a transgender woman who sued the state and alleged being raped, assaulted and harassed while held in a men’s prison, state officials said Wednesday. Officials said the agreement does not force broad policy changes for transgender inmates in Colorado’s prisons, but the woman’s attorney described it as a sign…
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Some Colorado legal immigrants in marijuana jobs denied citizenship
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U.S. immigration authorities blocked two immigrants’ applications for citizenship because of their work in Colorado’s marijuana industry, their attorneys and Denver officials said, accusing the Trump administration of quietly targeting immigrants seeking jobs in the growing field. Oswaldo Barrientos said he began working in the marijuana industry in 2014, inspired by the research he had…
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The US could back a pot-derived medicine for the first time. Some Colo. parents are worried
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COLORADO SPRINGS – A British pharmaceutical company is getting closer to a decision on whether the U.S government will approve the first prescription drug derived from the marijuana plant, but parents who for years have used cannabis to treat severe forms of epilepsy in their children are feeling more cautious than celebratory. The U.S. Food…
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Women law professors hope DU settlement leads to change
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After 31 years working at the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law, Lucy Marsh learned that she remained the lowest-paid professor on staff. She also was among the most experienced, surpassed by only one other person. The disclosure in a department memo set off years of litigation against the DU law school that ended…
