Tag: Judge S. Kato Crews
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Colorado’s federal judges slash motions backlog to lowest in years
Colorado’s federal trial judges collectively had 37 motions in civil cases that had been sitting on their dockets for at least six months without a ruling, as of Sept. 30. That is the smallest backlog the state’s U.S. District Court has experienced since September 2017, before many of the current judges were even on the…
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Colorado federal judges unveil new ‘civility code,’ share stories about bad behavior
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Four members of Colorado’s U.S. District Court introduced lawyers on Tuesday to a new, nonbinding “civility code” and expressed frustration about overly belligerent behavior they are seeing more frequently from attorneys. “It feeds on itself. One lawyer in a case starts with snarky comments in…
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Federal judge says he will not recuse from trans athlete case over courtroom pronoun policy
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save U.S. District Court Judge S. Kato Crews on Monday denied a request that he recuse himself from a lawsuit about transgender athletes’ participation, rejecting the argument that his courtroom protocols on the use of pronouns meant he had “prejudged” the case. Last week, attorneys challenging…
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10th Circuit declines to upend women’s volleyball tournament in lawsuit over trans player
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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…