Tag: First Amendment
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Denver police sergeant to face civil trial over alleged First Amendment retaliation, judge rules
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A federal judge ruled last month that a jury will evaluate whether a Denver police officer violated a man’s First Amendment rights by knocking his cell phone onto the ground in retaliation for video recording. Brian Loma was recording the city’s operation to dismantle a…
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10th Circuit declines to upend women’s volleyball tournament in lawsuit over trans player
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The federal appeals court based in Denver declined on Tuesday to order a Colorado Springs-based athletic organization to bar a transgender woman from participating on her college’s volleyball team and alter the record of wins and losses among schools immediately before a tournament is set…
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Colorado Supreme Court dodges constitutional question, dismisses latest Masterpiece Cakeshop case on procedural grounds
A divided court concluded the lawsuit implicating free speech rights and anti-discrimination protections was not properly filed
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Federal judge green-lights First Amendment claim of fired Douglas County school employee
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A jury will decide whether a Douglas County charter school fired an employee because of her protected online speech about vaccinations, a federal judge ruled last month. At the same time, U.S. Magistrate Judge Scott T. Varholak determined Jennifer Webb’s repeated reports of alleged financial…
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Former sergeant sues Denver Police, alleging discrimination, retaliation
A former Denver Police sergeant claimed she was discriminated and retaliated against after she condemned the force publicly during a women’s law enforcement group meeting. Carla Havard filed a federal lawsuit against the City and County of Denver and the Denver Police Department, alleging First Amendment violations, discrimination and retaliation. Havard said that she was…
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Tiny Ouray County newspaper roars, stands ground
A small newspaper in Ouray County is not backing down from reporting the news of an alleged rape involving the family of the police chief, even though it appears someone tried to stop them. Thursday, almost all of the Ouray County Plaindealer hard-copy newspapers that were for sale in newspaper racks throughout Ouray and Ridgway…
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Federal judge begins trial on Catholic schools’ claims against Colorado preschool program
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A federal judge heard arguments and testimony beginning on Tuesday over whether Colorado’s new universal pre-kindergarten program unconstitutionally forces a pair of Catholic preschools to violate their religious beliefs about sexual orientation and gender identity in order to participate as providers. In August, the Archdiocese…
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10th Circuit tosses ‘frivolous’ claims against Dominion Voting brought by Michigan residents
Judge Nancy Moritz labeled the notion that Dominion Voting Systems acted at the government’s behest ‘legally frivolous’
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Judge blocks Colorado from enforcing non-discrimination policy against Christian preschool
Colorado’s interest in preventing discrimination in its preschool program is not ‘of the highest order,’ Judge Daniel Domenico wrote
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Federal judge blocks Colorado from enforcing ‘abortion reversal’ ban against Catholic health clinic
Judge Daniel Domenico found the new law was not neutral towards religion and required the highest degree of scrutiny