solicitation
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10th Circuit dismisses constitutional challenge to Colorado’s charitable solicitation law
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The federal appeals court based in Denver dismissed a constitutional challenge to a portion of Colorado’s law governing paid nonprofit solicitors, determining on Friday that the lawsuit against Secretary of State Jena Griswold was now moot. Colorado’s legislature enacted the Charitable Solicitations Act after finding fraudulent solicitations on behalf of charities were a “widespread practice”…
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Appeals court rules class action lawsuits not dead even when there is no ‘class’
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Colorado’s second-highest court clarified on Thursday that lawsuits filed as class actions may still proceed for the individual named plaintiffs in the event a judge declines to authorize the class portion. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals noted the U.S. Supreme Court, for federal cases, has ruled the lack of a class does…
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Federal judge refuses to reconsider ruling, maintains charitable solicitation law is constitutional
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A federal judge is standing by his prior determination that Colorado’s regulations on charitable solicitations are constitutional, amid a First Amendment challenge to the law itself and to the manner in which Secretary of State Jena Griswold applied it to an Ohio-based company. InfoCision Management Corporation, located in Akron, Ohio, alleged a portion of Colorado’s Charitable…
