judge timothy tymkovich
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10th Circuit says Denver officers cannot be held liable for burning down woman’s home
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The federal appeals court based in Colorado concluded on Monday that two Denver police officers cannot be held liable for burning down a woman’s home after they threw a teargas canister, not designed for indoor use, into her house and sparked a fire. A trial judge previously decided it was a jury’s job to say…
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10th Circuit warns employers against discriminatory DEI programming
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The federal appeals court based in Denver sent up a warning flare to employers on Monday that diversity, equity and inclusion efforts can cross the line into illegal workplace discrimination, deeming certain race-conscious programming “troubling” and the product of “ideological messaging.” At the same time, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for…
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10th Circuit warns employers against discriminatory DEI programming
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The federal appeals court based in Denver sent up a warning flare to employers on Monday that diversity, equity and inclusion efforts can cross the line into illegal workplace discrimination, deeming certain race-conscious programming “troubling” and the product of “ideological messaging.” At the same time, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for…
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10th Circuit warns employers against discriminatory DEI programming
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The federal appeals court based in Denver sent up a warning flare to employers on Monday that diversity, equity and inclusion efforts can cross the line into illegal workplace discrimination, deeming certain race-conscious programming “troubling” and the product of “ideological messaging.” At the same time, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for…
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Colorado Supreme Court identifies potential red flag in state’s sex offender sentencing law
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The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday suggested the 25-year-old law governing criminal sentences for sex offenders might run afoul of the constitutional prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment when applied to juveniles serving lengthy terms of incarceration. The ultimate question of whether the Sex Offender Lifetime Supervision Act, or SOLSA, is unconstitutional in the case of…
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Colorado Supreme Court identifies potential red flag in state’s sex offender sentencing law
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The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday suggested the 25-year-old law governing criminal sentences for sex offenders might run afoul of the constitutional prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment when applied to juveniles serving lengthy terms of incarceration. The ultimate question of whether the Sex Offender Lifetime Supervision Act, or SOLSA, is unconstitutional in the case of…
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Federal judge slams ‘endless’ conspiracy-laden lawsuit against court officials, city of Loveland
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A federal judge last week threw out a lawsuit from a Colorado man alleging he was the victim of a conspiracy of judicial fraud and forgery, after his original efforts to baselessly extract $300 million from the city of Loveland were themselves deemed fraudulent. Since 2021, Eyoel-Dawit Matios has insisted Loveland owes him hundreds of millions…
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10th Circuit agrees marketplace app not liable for Aurora couple’s murder
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The federal appeals court based in Denver agreed on Thursday that the company behind an online marketplace app that connected an Aurora couple to the man who murdered them cannot be held liable for its own alleged role in placing them in harm’s way. Joseph and Jossline Roland met up with Kyree Brown to purchase…
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Federal judge sends case of prisoner’s death to jury
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A federal judge ruled last month that a jury will decide whether medical personnel at the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility were negligent or deliberately indifferent to an incarcerated man whose deteriorating condition culminated in his 2017 death. Lorenzo Gabriel Flores had recently been transferred to the prison in Cañon City when he collapsed in his cell and…
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Colorado’s Timothy Tymkovich tapped by chief justice to serve on surveillance appeals court
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Judge Timothy M. Tymkovich recently became the first Coloradan to sit on the bench of the nation’s secretive surveillance court system, which is charged with reviewing the government’s applications for gathering foreign intelligence inside the United States. Tymkovich, who has been a judge on the Denver-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit since…
