Judge Robert Blackburn
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4 federal judges in Colorado advocate for Congress to create new judgeships
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Four federal judges from Colorado were among the hundreds of signatories this month to a letter urging Congress to pass legislation creating 66 new judgeships in trial courts across multiple presidential administrations — starting next year with President-elect Donald Trump. This summer, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the JUDGES Act, which would increase the size of…
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10th Circuit: Archuleta sheriff’s officials committed constitutional violation by seizing home for 8 hours
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An Archuleta County sheriff’s detective who barred a man and his family from entering their home for nearly eight hours without a warrant committed a constitutional violation that required the eventual evidence of a firearm offense to be thrown out, the federal appeals court based in Denver ruled on Tuesday. Although Corban Josiah Elmore cooperated…