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Cyberattack disables Colorado public defender’s network; groups seek cap on property tax revenue growth; lawmakers eye ban on cellphones while driving | WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
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Today is Feb. 13, 2024, and here’s what you need to know: Two groups at the opposite ends of major tax policies in past years have banded together to push for a ballot measure to reduce residential and business property tax rates down to roughly 2022 levels and cap future revenue growth to no more…
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Colorado Supreme Court develops chief justice ‘onboarding’ plan, an outlier among states
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The Colorado Supreme Court has joined an apparent minority of its peers across the country in laying down a written transition plan for chief justices, who are executive leaders of the judicial branch in addition to their roles deciding cases. A “chief justice onboarding” document, drafted in 2022, outlines the duties of incoming Colorado chief…
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Colorado Supreme Court soon to reach milestone: 2.5 years without a new member
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In early July, the Colorado Supreme Court will reach an unusual milestone: going 2.5 years without a new justice. While 30 months may not seem like a long stretch, it is, in fact, the largest interval any of the court’s current members have experienced without a seat turning over, beginning with Justice Monica M. Márquez’s…
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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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Q&A with Chief Justice Brian Boatright | Pandemic motivated him to take top judicial job
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FAST FACTS: Brian D. Boatright has been the chief justice of the Colorado Supreme Court since January 2021. He was a 2011 appointee of Gov. John Hickenlooper, and before that a 1999 trial court appointee of Gov. Bill Owens to the First Judicial District in Jefferson County. Boatright worked in private practice and as a…
