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Judge’s financial conflict does not require reopening case, 10th Circuit finds
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A federal judge did violate the law when he failed to recuse himself from a case, but there is no need to reopen the lawsuit or overturn his rulings, the federal appeals court based in Denver decided on Thursday. In what appears to be the first ruling of its kind from the U.S. Court of…
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Federal judge finds no improper influence on case from colleague’s financial conflict
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A federal judge has found his colleague’s undisclosed financial conflict of interest had no influence over the ruling in a debt collection lawsuit against Wells Fargo. U.S. District Court Senior Judge John L. Kane, without prompting from any party to the lawsuit, issued a decision on Friday following his independent review of Dennis Obduskey’s 2015…
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Colorado judge’s financial conflict did not bias ruling, colleague finds
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A federal judge in Colorado ruled how “any judge” would have in a case, even though he had an undisclosed financial stake in one of the corporate parties, a colleague of his determined this week. U.S. District Court Senior Judge R. Brooke Jackson was one of the 131 federal judges across the country identified in…
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Colorado gets share of $575M Wells Fargo settlement with states
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Wells Fargo & Co. — Colorado’s largest bank — has agreed to pay $575 million to all 50 states and the District of Columbia to settle claims that a fake-account scandal in its retail bank and improper auto-loan and mortgage charges harmed customers. Colorado’s share of the settlement is $21.5 million, state Attorney General Cynthia…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Science says hotter weather turbocharges western wildfires
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Science says hotter weather turbocharges West’s wildfires As temperatures rise in the U.S. West, so do the flames. The years with the most acres burned by wildfires have some of the hottest temperatures, an Associated Press analysis of fire and weather data found. As human-caused climate change has warmed the world over the past 35…
