Author: Tony Gagliardi
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Is a pandemic of lawsuits next for small biz?
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Tony Gagliardi The 2020 Colorado legislative session, Part II, ended after the Democrat-controlled legislature addressed every hot-button topic on its wish list for the last five years. Without stakeholder input and with lightening-like speed: • A new tax on every health insurance plan sold in Colorado to fund a reinsurance pipe dream was implemented. •…
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Colorado at legal epicenter for business issues
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Three down and one to go.It was probably just coincidental, but in the past two years, Colorado has become a focal point of legal decisions on business issues with national implications. Three of the four cases giving our state this — from businesses’ perspectives — unwanted attention have been settled, with the biggest case still…
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Question of TABOR’s constitutionality could cause major reverberations
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Who is in charge of the American republic? A case out of the federal district court of Colorado could answer that question, if the Supreme Court takes the matter up next spring. In 1992, Coloradans voted to amend their state constitution in order to impose restraints on their government’s power to tax and spend. The…