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Appeals court reinstates man’s lawsuit challenging $600 open records fee
Colorado’s second-highest court on Thursday directed a trial judge to evaluate whether the state’s health department responded reasonably by imposing a $600 fee on a man’s request for records about the administration of ketamine by paramedics. At the same time, a three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals took umbrage at the inflammatory language Frank…
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Aurora firefighters union may seek entry into consent decree lawsuit, appeals court rules
The union representing Aurora’s firefighters could be allowed to join the litigation between the city and the state that resulted in a consent decree addressing unlawful police and paramedic behavior, Colorado’s second-highest court ruled last week. The agreement to reform the city’s policies came after Attorney General Phil Weiser released a report in 2021 documenting…
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Judge orders some questions off-limits in Aurora excessive force lawsuit
Two defendants from the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office may not ask the man suing them for excessive force about certain topics that could incriminate him in the separate criminal prosecution stemming from the encounter, a federal judge has ordered. Elijah McKnight has filed a civil claim against deputies Justin Yantiss and Andrew DeVries, alleging they…