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Colorado’s Commission on Judicial Discipline initiated six corrective actions against judges in 2020 – the same number as the prior year – ranging from mild concerns about the handling of cases to illegal behavior that resulted in a Supreme Court censure. The commission released its annual report, which includes specific details about judges who received public…

More than 200,000 Coloradans are to soon receive checks from a 2019 settlement with CenturyLink because the company deceptively overcharged customers for services.  Payments range between $12 and $83 for the 205,000 residents who were overcharged. The amount of the payment depends on how long each customer was charged an “Internet Cost Recovery Free,” according…

Religious freedom scholars and anti-discrimination attorneys are assessing the likelihood that the conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court may take up a major First Amendment decision out of Colorado, in which the state’s anti-discrimination law prevailed over a business owner’s religiously based objection about serving same-sex couples. “I believe that this case, or one…

After white supremacists allegedly attacked a Colorado inmate for being a “snitch,” he sued corrections officials for failing to place him in protective custody. On Friday, a federal judge ruled that his claims may proceed to trial against one of them. Following his Nov. 11, 2016, assault at the Limon Correctional Facility, Kyle Gray sued…

A man convicted after sending upward of a million Facebook messages to a Denver musician was not using free speech protected by the First Amendment, and was instead making threats, the Court of Appeals decided on Thursday in rejecting a constitutional challenge to Colorado’s stalking law. In upholding the conviction of Billy Raymond Counterman, a…

While deliberating on a grisly assault case in Weld County, the jury sent a note to the judge asking how long into the evening they should keep talking – adding that two people had to catch flights in the morning. “You have as much time as you need,” the judge responded. Two-and-a-half hours later, jurors convicted…

Welcome to Court Crawl, Colorado Politics’ roundup of news from the third branch of government. One of the president’s judicial nominees for Colorado advanced out of committee, while another recently confirmed judge has been randomly assigned hundreds of cases. Also, the U.S. Supreme Court has received appeals from Colorado that are seeking to get the…

A man who claims Denver officers retaliated against him for video recording an incident of police brutality is now asking the U.S. Supreme Court to place guardrails on the legal concept of qualified immunity, after a lower court concluded that the officers were immune from lawsuit even though Denver’s training specifically covered the right of…