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Heavy docket: Study recommends Colorado’s second-highest court expand by 25% to handle workload | COVER STORY
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In the past two years, Chief Judge Gilbert M. Román has presided over five swearing-in ceremonies for new judges on Colorado’s second-highest court. He has repeatedly opened with the same disclaimer about the 22-member Court of Appeals. “This is considered a heavy-docket court,” Román says. Numerically speaking, that amounted to 1,745 written opinions issued in the last…
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Heavy docket: Study recommends Colorado’s second-highest court expand by 25% to handle workload | COVER STORY
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In the past two years, Chief Judge Gilbert M. Román has presided over five swearing-in ceremonies for new judges on Colorado’s second-highest court. He has repeatedly opened with the same disclaimer about the 22-member Court of Appeals. “This is considered a heavy-docket court,” Román says. Numerically speaking, that amounted to 1,745 written opinions issued in the last…
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Colorado policymakers eye revisions to speech-based criminal laws in response to SCOTUS decision
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After the U.S. Supreme Court clarified on Tuesday that Colorado’s law criminalizing stalking fails to account for a defendant’s intent in making threatening comments, state policymakers suggested legislation may be warranted to balance the need to protect victims with the constitutional requirement to respect free speech. The state Supreme Court will also likely need to…
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Pair of wolf bills wins approval from Colorado Senate committee
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Two bills intended to move Colorado forward on its voter-approved requirement to reintroduce the gray wolf won approval from the Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee. Senate Bill 255 would set up a $350,000 per year compensation account, paid for with general fund dollars, to reimburse ranchers when wolves kill their livestock. The bill, co-sponsored…
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Colorado forms task force to fight online sale of stolen products
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Colorado has formed a new task force charged with cracking down on products being stolen and anonymously resold through online marketplaces, such as eBay and Facebook. Attorney General Phil Weiser announced the formation of the statewide task force on Wednesday. He said it will enhance coordination between law enforcement agencies, allowing them to identify and…
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GOP groups outspending Democratic allies in Colorado Senate races
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The latest campaign finance reports show the “soft money” group dedicated to supporting Republicans running in Colorado Senate races is outspending its Democratic counterpart by nearly a 2-to-1 margin. The Senate Majority Fund’s independent expenditure committee, which backs Senate Republican candidates, and All Together Colorado, the Democrats’ soft side IEC, collectively spent about $6 million on…
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Q&A with Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg | At the end of 16 years of public service
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State Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg, R-Sterling, is the only one of 100 lawmakers in the 2022 session who has served for a full 16 years: four consecutive two-year terms in the House followed by two consecutive four-year terms in the Senate. First elected in 2006 to the House and in 2014 to the Senate, his district…
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Colorado House passes bill that would help communities affected by coal plant closures
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The Colorado House passed legislation Thursday that would direct $15 million from the state’s general fund to the Office of Just Transition, which was created to try to lessen the economic and social effects of the closure of coal power plants and mines across the state. House Bill 22-1394, which was approved 51-12, would transfer the funds…
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Task forces issue long-awaited recommendations on $1 billion housing, behavioral health spending
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The Democratic establishment quickly lined up behind recommendations to spend roughly a billion dollars in federal aid on a slew of housing and behavioral health programs, notably money for a revolving loan fund and increasing adult inpatient and residential care. The recommendations, which two legislative task forces unveiled on Monday, will be turned into legislation that is…
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With new state House and Senate maps, let the games begin
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The wait is over. And the scramble has begun. Now that the Colorado Supreme Court has approved new state House and Senate maps, candidates are crafting designs to run for more competitive seats that also appear to shrink the influence of rural communities at the state Capitol. The new maps will reshape Colorado’s political landscape, and,…
