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United States v. DaVita: Preview of groundbreaking white-collar trial in Denver
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The nearly three-week criminal trial of Denver-based DaVita, Inc. and its former leader, Kent Thiry, will begin on Monday morning, as prosecutors attempt to prove that a series of agreements between DaVita and its competitors are a novel violation of a century-old antitrust law. The government alleges there were high-level understandings that certain competitor companies…
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Parties argue over mundane, salacious issues as DaVita trial looms
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With weeks to go until the high-profile white collar trial, attorneys for the United States and for Fortune 500 company DaVita, Inc. clashed in a downtown Denver courtroom, arguing over the admissibility of expert testimony, the multimillion-dollar compensation for DaVita’s CEO-turned-defendant, and the government’s withholding of information. The parties on Thursday even disputed whether the…
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‘Keep Kent Thiry happy’: Prosecutors air statements of alleged DaVita conspiracy in court
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With a jury trial scheduled to take place in just over a month, the U.S. Department of Justice revealed in federal court on Thursday a catalogue of statements from co-conspirators in the alleged scheme by Denver-based DaVita, Inc. and its ex-leader, Kent Thiry, to unlawfully restrict the movement of employees between companies. Thiry and DaVita…
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10th Circuit reinstates group prayer lawsuit of 1993 WTC bomber
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The federal appeals court based in Denver has reinstated a Muslim inmate’s religious liberty lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Prisons, finding a lower court misunderstood the level of access prison officials were providing to group prayer. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit sided with Ahmad Ajaj, who…
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Federal judge finds disability discrimination may have played role in Westminster cop’s firing
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Although the city of Westminster argues it terminated a 14-year police officer because he abused his authority in repeated encounters with law enforcement, a federal judge found the officer’s allegations of disability discrimination credible enough to let a jury decide the outcome of the case. Craig Communal, an officer from 2004 to 2018, claimed the…
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Colorado judge’s financial conflict did not bias ruling, colleague finds
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A federal judge in Colorado ruled how “any judge” would have in a case, even though he had an undisclosed financial stake in one of the corporate parties, a colleague of his determined this week. U.S. District Court Senior Judge R. Brooke Jackson was one of the 131 federal judges across the country identified in…
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10th Circuit reverses judge who rejected medical intervention for chronically ill inmate
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A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit found that instead of performing his own analysis of whether court intervention was appropriate, U.S. District Court Senior Judge R. Brooke Jackson had apparently relied on the government’s promise that it was scheduling a medical consultation on its own. “[A]lmost a year later, there…
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Judge dismisses First Amendment challenge to new Colorado billboard law
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A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit from two outdoor advertising companies who claimed the Colorado Department of Transportation’s rules for roadside signage amounted to a First Amendment violation through regulation of the signs’ content. In reality, determined U.S. District Court Senior Judge R. Brooke Jackson, state law regulates billboards based on whether they are…
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Colorado bill would make minors’ autopsy reports closed records
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A bill that easily passed the Colorado Senate and awaits a hearing in the House would prevent the press and other outside watchdogs from figuring out why children died. Senate Bill 223 would automatically seal autopsy reports for minors, except for families, government-sanctioned review boards, organ donation groups and civil or criminal lawyers with a…
