discrimination
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Federal judge lets professor’s disability discrimination claim proceed against CU
A federal judge denied the University of Colorado’s request to dismiss a medical professor’s disability discrimination lawsuit, which alleged that the school suspended her because it perceived she was cognitively impaired. Robin Slover, a professor of clinical practice in anesthesiology at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus who has worked for the university on-and-off since 1975,…
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Federal judge tosses employment discrimination case, acknowledges COVID-19 may be disability
A federal judge has decided that while COVID-19 can qualify as a disability, a Colorado Springs woman terminated from her job at the outset of the pandemic failed to establish her employer violated the Americans with Disabilities Act through its reaction to a COVID-19 diagnosis. Tammy L. Baum, a former accounts receivable clerk for Dunmire Property…
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Ex-Colorado Mesa University lacrosse coach may proceed with discrimination lawsuit
The former head coach of Colorado Mesa University’s women’s lacrosse team may proceed with her claim of discrimination against the school, after a federal judge found Shanta Loecker plausibly alleged her termination stemmed from her gender or race. The Colorado Attorney General’s Office, representing CMU, argued that if the university intended to discriminate against Loecker,…
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Federal judge tosses Safeway employee’s religious discrimination claim against company
A federal judge has determined a Weld County woman failed to show that her employer, Safeway, discriminated and retaliated against her on the basis of her religion. Brenda Medina, a Safeway worker for more than two decades, claimed the Fort Collins store where she worked had forced her to take unpaid leave during the winter…
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Appeals court finds no racial discrimination despite excusal of three Black jurors in a row
The state’s second-highest court has decided there was no intentional racial discrimination when an Arapahoe County prosecutor dismissed three Black people in a row from serving on a Black defendant’s jury. The appeal from Shawne Alexander Toney implicated the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark case of Batson v. Kentucky, which held that intentional racial discrimination in jury…
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10th Circuit directs Gunnison condo operators to comply with anti-discrimination agreement
After the federal government reported that the owners of a Gunnison housing complex refused to abide by the terms of an agreement meant to avoid further discrimination, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit has now ordered them to comply. David Welch, John Welch and Ruth Welch signed an agreement in early 2020,…
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State Supreme Court reverses man’s convictions for handling of race-based juror dismissal
A man serving a 144-year sentence for kidnapping, sexually assaulting and trying to kill a teenager will receive a new trial, after the Colorado Supreme Court decided Monday that a Denver judge improperly handled the defendant’s assertion of racial discrimination in his jury selection. Members of the court found the prosecutor in Ray Ojeda’s 2015…
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Federal judge finds no hiring discrimination in lawsuit against state Judicial Department
A federal judge found “definitively no” indication of discrimination from the state’s judicial branch after a Black job applicant claimed her race and age were the reason she was passed over for a job with the Colorado Supreme Court. In dismissing the lawsuit of Michele D. Brown, U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael E. Hegarty observed that…
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10th Circuit calls out federal judges for misunderstanding woman’s discrimination case
A pair of federal judges summarily dismissed a woman’s racial discrimination lawsuit based on inadequate reasoning and a key factual mistake, the appeals court based in Denver decided on Thursday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit found that U.S. District Court Senior Judge Lewis T. Babcock and U.S. Magistrate Judge Gordon P.…
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Judge finds police impersonation, not race, the reason for ex-Denver employee’s firing
A federal judge has tossed a discrimination lawsuit against the City and County of Denver from a former employee, finding her termination was not due to her being white, but rather because she publicly and falsely identified herself as a police officer. Emina Gerovic, who was a custodian in the Facilities Management division from August 2014…