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Judge green-lights lawsuit of Black former Kaiser employee for trial
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A jury will now decide whether a former Colorado employee of Kaiser Permanente experienced a hostile work environment, after a federal judge concluded the evidence could show Moureene Taylor and her only other Black colleague were effectively ignored in their workplace. Last month, U.S. District Court Judge Nina Y. Wang determined a series of incidents…
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Appeals court reverses murder conviction due to race-based juror dismissal
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A man serving a life sentence for murder will receive a new trial because an Arapahoe County judge improperly allowed prosecutors to remove a juror of color based on her race, Colorado’s second-highest court decided on Thursday. The U.S. Supreme Court recognized more than 30 years ago that intentional racial discrimination in jury selection is…
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School’s equity training did not amount to hostile work environment, federal judge finds
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The Cherry Creek School District said it fired experienced teacher Leslie Shannon after she continued to underperform, was unlikely to improve, and had taken extensive absences that created major burdens for her colleagues. Shannon, however, alleged the only thing that changed in her third and final year with the district was her decision to complain…
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10th Circuit upholds jury verdict for Xcel Energy in discrimination lawsuit
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The federal appeals court based in Denver has upheld a jury’s verdict finding Xcel Energy did not discriminate against a former worker on the basis of her race and sex by failing to promote her. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit reviewed a narrow aspect of the case:…
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Bradfield leads Dent in HD21 GOP primary, early returns show
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Four contested Colorado House District races announced preliminary results Tuesday. District 21 State Rep. Mary Bradfield, R-Colorado Springs. Gazette file Karl Dent Gazette file Preliminary results for the primary race for Colorado House District 21 showed Mary Bradfield beating Karl Dent with 66.84% of votes during early race results, according to the Colorado Secretary of State website. Dent,…
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Judge tosses discrimination lawsuit of ex-state judicial employee
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A Black woman who was terminated from her job with the Colorado Judicial Department in Arapahoe County failed to show that she was retaliated against, faced a hostile work environment or experienced discriminatory treatment based on her race, a federal judge ruled. Shontella Young worked for the probation department of the 18th Judicial District for…
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DeSantis again tops Trump in 2024 straw poll at Colorado conservative summit
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ran ahead of former President Donald Trump for the second year running in a 2024 presidential election straw poll conducted at the Western Conservative Summit in Aurora, summit organizers said late Saturday. Sponsored by Colorado Christian University’s Centennial Institute and billed as the largest gathering of conservatives in the western United…
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10th Circuit finds no need to ask jurors about race, Trump in immigration-related trial
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A judge was not required to ask jurors about their racial prejudices or their reactions to then-President Donald Trump’s derogatory comments about African and Caribbean countries during a criminal trial in which three of the four defendants were Black immigrants, the federal appeals court based in Denver ruled on Tuesday. During the January 2020 trial…
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Lawmakers urge Supreme Court committee to address racial bias in jury selection
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Four Democratic lawmakers have written to the Colorado Supreme Court’s criminal rules committee urging it to address racial bias in jury selection following resistance from prosecutors to a legislative proposal on the subject. Last month, the sponsors of Senate Bill 128 declined to move forward with their legislation after all 22 elected district attorneys registered…
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Appeals court finds Arapahoe prosecutor misstated facts to eject Black juror, overturns convictions
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When asked to explain why he wanted to excuse a Black woman from the jury, an Arapahoe County prosecutor got offended, claimed he was being called racist, and offered inconsistent and factually untrue explanations for his actions. But while the prosecutor succeeded in convincing the trial judge to dismiss the juror, the state’s second-highest court…
