chris degruy kennedy
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Colorado Supreme Court tells Weld County to follow state redistricting law
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Weld County must comply with the state law governing how boards of county commissioners are to draw their districts, and the county needs to adopt new maps by next year’s election, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Monday. Following the 2020 census, it was undisputed that Weld County did not follow the procedures for how…
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‘Chutzpah’: Colorado justices raise eyebrows at Weld County’s assertion it can evade redistricting law
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Members of the Colorado Supreme Court appeared incredulous on Wednesday as a lawyer for Weld County argued the jurisdiction did not need to follow the state’s redistricting law, maintained it should not have to redraw its commissioner districts for nine more years, and declined to say whether the county would even comply with a Supreme…
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10th Circuit rejects conservative group’s challenge to ballot title transparency law
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The federal appeals court based in Denver rejected a conservative group’s challenge on Friday to a 2021 Colorado law that requires tax-cutting ballot initiatives to provide details to voters about affected services, even if the mandated information is inaccurate. Following the 1992 enactment of the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, ballot measures seeking to increase tax…
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10th Circuit rejects conservative group’s challenge to ballot title transparency law
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The federal appeals court based in Denver rejected a conservative group’s challenge on Friday to a 2021 Colorado law that requires tax-cutting ballot initiatives to provide details to voters about affected services, even if the mandated information is inaccurate. Following the 1992 enactment of the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, ballot measures seeking to increase tax…
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‘Life over abstinence’: Colorado legislators again pursue supervised drug use centers
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When Maggie Seldeen’s mother died from a heroin overdose, no one called 911. At only 15 years old, overdoses were almost commonplace in Seldeen’s world, surrounded by addiction, drug dealing and domestic violence in the Roaring Fork Valley. Seldeen, an injection drug user herself at the time, did not know about naloxone, or Narcan, which…
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Colorado Supreme Court says health providers may be sued for reporting drug theft
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Even though individual healthcare workers enjoy immunity from lawsuits when investigating potential prescription drug theft, the same shield does not exist for organizations that report such criminal activity, the Colorado Supreme Court clarified on Monday. Certain laws in Colorado grant immunity to “persons” who report crimes or elder abuse. However, the question for the Supreme Court…
