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Colorado Springs Mayor Yemi Mobolade marks halftime of his term in office during State of the City speech
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After a stormy month of economic news in Colorado Springs, Mayor Yemi Mobolade took the stage for his State of the City speech Thursday morning with a much more upbeat tone. About 900 people filled a hall at The Broadmoor to listen to this year’s presentation, which marked the halfway point of Mobolade’s four-year term…
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SCOTUS stalking decision does not apply to non-speech behavior, appeals court rules
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Colorado’s second-highest court clarified on Thursday that a U.S. Supreme Court decision recognizing First Amendment protections for alleged stalkers does not apply to prosecutions where the defendant’s stalking is based on something other than their speech. By 7-2, the Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Counterman v. Colorado in 2023, a case out of Arapahoe County…
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Colorado justices explore limits of anti-discrimination law in Masterpiece Cakeshop appeal
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Members of the Colorado Supreme Court explored on Tuesday the tension between LGBTQ customers’ ability to be free from discrimination in the marketplace and business owners’ competing right not to be forced to express messages that violate their conscience. During oral arguments, some justices noted the difficulty of disentangling customers’ protected characteristics, like race or…
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Judge allows retaliation lawsuit to proceed against CSU officials
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Two former faculty members of Colorado State University Pueblo may proceed to hold school officials liable for allegedly retaliating against them when they spoke up about sex-based discrimination, a federal judge has ruled. Kimberly Cowden and Joanne Gula were both assistant professors in CSU Pueblo’s Mass Communication Department when they posted on social media and…
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State Supreme Court again strikes down part of harassment law as unconstitutional
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The Colorado Supreme Court once again invalidated part of the state’s anti-harassment law, finding the legislature targeted constitutionally protected speech in its effort to criminalize certain types of electronic communication. As written, Colorado law makes it a misdemeanor offense to communicate with someone by phone, text or computer in a manner intended to harass, threaten…
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Lauren Boebert ripped by Jason Crow for State of the Union outburst: ‘Certainly a stain on her’
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U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert drew sharp criticism from a fellow member of Colorado’s congressional delegation Tuesday night after the Silt Republican heckled President Joe Biden during the State of the Union address when he was talking about the death of his son. Speaking to reporters after the speech, U.S. Rep. Jason Crow, a Centennial Democrat and…
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Federal judge declines to drop free speech lawsuit against Colorado Springs police
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It is possible that Colorado Springs officers violated a man’s First Amendment rights when they arrested him for screaming obscenities at police, a federal judge decided. As a result, the civil lawsuit from Michael Sexton will proceed, based in part on one officer’s admission that he arrested Sexton simply for saying the F-word repeatedly. “Under…
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10th Circuit reinstates MSU Denver student’s lawsuit alleging First Amendment violation
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Calling the issue an “easy one,” the federal appeals court based in Colorado reinstated a lawsuit by a Metropolitan State University of Denver student who claims an administrator violated her First Amendment rights when he prohibited her from speaking about a professor to other students. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for…
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Judge dismisses First Amendment challenge to new Colorado billboard law
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A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit from two outdoor advertising companies who claimed the Colorado Department of Transportation’s rules for roadside signage amounted to a First Amendment violation through regulation of the signs’ content. In reality, determined U.S. District Court Senior Judge R. Brooke Jackson, state law regulates billboards based on whether they are…
