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Colorado Supreme Court ponders when negative online reviews are insulated from lawsuits
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Members of the Colorado Supreme Court considered last week whether a person’s vindictive motivations in posting a negative online review can nevertheless relate to a matter of public interest, and potentially shield the commentary from a defamation lawsuit. For the first time, the state’s highest court examined Colorado’s 2019 “anti-SLAPP” law, which stands for “strategic…
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El Paso County child sex assault convictions reversed after appeals court finds errors
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A man convicted of multiple child sex offenses will receive a new trial after Colorado’s second-highest court determined his defense lawyers likely contributed to the guilty verdict by failing to object to damaging testimony about the defendant’s other, uncharged misconduct. An El Paso County jury in 2013 found Daniel C. Oliver guilty of felony sex…
