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Colorado’s federal judges recused 200+ times in 4 years for variety of reasons
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Colorado’s federal judges issued orders recusing themselves from cases at least 203 times in four years, with reasons ranging from unspecified appearances of partiality to potential conflicts created by their prior employment and family connections. One judge also noted in recusing himself that if he ruled against an attorney who was his personal friend, “it…
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2 Biden appointees from Colorado take center stage as SCOTUS hears conversion therapy case
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The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on Monday to accept an appeal out of Colorado questioning the constitutionality of a law restricting “conversion therapy” for minors turns the spotlight toward two relatively new federal judges who previously sided with the state. In the case of Chiles v. Salazar, Colorado Springs counselor Kaley Chiles alleged Colorado’s 2019 ban violated her…
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Colorado justices explore limits of anti-discrimination law in Masterpiece Cakeshop appeal
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Members of the Colorado Supreme Court explored on Tuesday the tension between LGBTQ customers’ ability to be free from discrimination in the marketplace and business owners’ competing right not to be forced to express messages that violate their conscience. During oral arguments, some justices noted the difficulty of disentangling customers’ protected characteristics, like race or…
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Grant Sullivan, representing state officials from trial courts to SCOTUS, ceremonially sworn in as appeals judge
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For years, Grant T. Sullivan had his name attached to high-profile, high-stakes cases filed against Colorado and its public officials in challenges to the state’s election laws, gun safety policies and its non-discrimination directives. At his formal swearing-in ceremony as a judge on the state’s Court of Appeals, Sullivan thanked the policymakers he formerly represented.…
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Following SCOTUS decision, judge enters injunction against Colorado in 303 Creative case
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Nine months after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision and nearly eight years after she first filed suit in Colorado’s federal trial court, web designer Lorie Smith received an injunction prohibiting the state from compelling her to create wedding websites for same-sex couples. In a March 26 order, U.S. District Court Chief Judge…
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Following SCOTUS decision, judge enters injunction against Colorado in 303 Creative case
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Nine months after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision and nearly eight years after she first filed suit in Colorado’s federal trial court, web designer Lorie Smith received an injunction prohibiting the state from compelling her to create wedding websites for same-sex couples. In a March 26 order, U.S. District Court Chief Judge…
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Following SCOTUS decision, judge enters injunction against Colorado in 303 Creative case
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Nine months after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision and nearly eight years after she first filed suit in Colorado’s federal trial court, web designer Lorie Smith received an injunction prohibiting the state from compelling her to create wedding websites for same-sex couples. In a March 26 order, U.S. District Court Chief Judge…
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303 Creative returns to trial court in wake of SCOTUS ruling on LGBTQ discrimination
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After the U.S. Supreme Court decided in June that certain businesses may refuse service to customers notwithstanding states’ anti-discrimination laws, the case that prompted the ruling quietly returned to Colorado’s federal trial court on Tuesday, more than seven years after it began. In 303 Creative v. Elenis, plaintiff Lorie Smith originally feared she would run afoul…
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‘What’s the injury?’ Federal judge wary of Christian school’s challenge to universal pre-K program
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A Christian school in Chaffee County argued to a federal judge on Thursday that it should be able to receive state money to participate in the new universal preschool program without having to abide by Colorado’s non-discrimination rules for providers. The Darren Patterson Christian Academy, which enrolls students from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade, is seeking…
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Colorado Supreme Court to hear latest LGBTQ discrimination case against Masterpiece Cakeshop
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The Colorado Supreme Court announced on Tuesday that it will decide whether a Lakewood cake maker violated the state’s anti-discrimination law when he declined to supply a cake to celebrate a customer’s gender transition, or if the First Amendment protected his refusal. The case involves a familiar name: Masterpiece Cakeshop, whose owner, Jack Phillips, was…
