colorado court of appeals
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‘The law is the law’: Conifer students experience real appellate cases, quiz judges
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For a select group of attorneys who argued their cases before Colorado’s Court of Appeals on Tuesday, the experience was different in two key ways: First, they traded the ornate courtrooms of downtown Denver for the picturesque foothills 30 miles to the west. Second, the most pointed questioning did not necessarily come from the court.…
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Colorado appeals court says Joe Salazar’s lawsuit against Public Trust Institute can move forward
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The Colorado Court of Appeals has ruled that a lawsuit by a former legislator alleging malicious prosecution by the Public Trust Institute and its former director can move forward. The ruling came with a first-ever determination that an administrative proceeding, which could form the basis for a malicious prosecution claim, must be “quasi-judicial.” In this…
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State Supreme Court draws line on unacceptable use of analogies by trial judges
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The Colorado Supreme Court has determined that trial court judges who attempt to define the concept of reasonable doubt using illustrations or analogies to familiar concepts may, in fact, be committing an error that requires reversal of a defendant’s conviction. The justices’ conclusion in a pair of appeals on Monday follows a long string of…
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Colorado Court of Appeals upholds state’s ban on large-capacity magazines
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The Colorado Court of Appeals, in a unanimous opinion issued Thursday, upheld the state’s ban on large-capacity ammunition magazines of 15 rounds or more. The lawsuit dates back to the contentious 2013 state legislative session in which Democrats, who controlled both the House and Senate, passed a trio of gun-control laws, including one that banned…
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Colorado Court of Appeals judge to retire
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Nancy J. Lichtenstein will retire as a Colorado Court of Appeals judge on Jan. 8, more than a decade after her appointment. The former state public defender was appointed to the appellate court by former Gov. Bill Ritter in 2008. She earned a law degree at the University of Denver in 1988. The state Supreme…
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A onetime Lt. Gov. hopeful wants to haul a judge before the ‘court of common decency’
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Former Mesa County Commissioner Janet Rowland wants to take down one of the judges who released a convicted serial child molester from his 324-year prison sentence in February. Reports the Daily Sentinel in Grand Junction, Rowland – who now leads the county’s program advocating for abused and neglected children – is spearheading a campaign to…
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Colorado Supreme Court to decide whether in vitro embryos are property
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WASHINGTON – The Colorado Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a case next week on in vitro fertilization that is stretching child custody issues into times before fetuses enter their mothers’ wombs. It also is drawing support or criticism nationwide from groups that seek to protect rights of women, parents or unborn children. In the…
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Colorado politicos react to Supreme Court hearing on Masterpiece Cakeshop case
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Both sides agree it’s a question of rights but differ sharply whose rights should prevail under the law in a case argued Tuesday before the U.S. Supreme Court – whether it’s the baker and his religious beliefs or the same-sex couple and their right to be treated like any other customers. As the divisive case…
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Matt Arnold loses one against state GOP
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In a defeat that doesn’t happen that often, Matt Arnold and his Campaign Integrity Watchdog drew a losing verdict from the Colorado Court of Appeals, when the court ruled in favor of the state Republican party on a campaign finance issue. The appeals court ruled unanimously to overturn an administrative law judge’s decision in favor of…
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A Colorado ex-couple’s custody battle — over property, or life?
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One of the more compelling beginning-of-life test cases that you’ve probably never heard of – one that arguably lends new meaning to “pro-life” and “pro-choice” – is playing out in Colorado’s courts. It combines latter-day cryogenic technology with an old-fashioned, bitter divorce, and it centers on a rather unusual custody battle. And even though the…
