Tag: Judge Steve Bernard
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Colorado justices receptive to allowing lawyers to ‘borrow’ allegations from elsewhere
Members of the Colorado Supreme Court seemed open on Tuesday to the idea that plaintiffs’ lawyers can use allegations made elsewhere to bolster their own clients’ claims, so long as the attorney first performs some degree of investigation into the “borrowed” assertions. Under Colorado’s rules for civil cases, attorneys must attest that the complaints they…
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Colorado justices point to quirk in identity theft law, agree man’s conviction cannot stand
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday that a man could not stand convicted of identity theft for using the “personal identifying information” of a nonprofit entity, rather than a human being. The state’s identity theft law applies to people who, without authorization, use the financial identifying…
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Colorado Supreme Court walks back appeals court’s reversal of $3 million fine against CollegeAmerica
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday walked back a lower court’s reversal of a $3 million penalty against a technical college that deceived its students, with the justices instead directing the Court of Appeals to take a closer look at the evidence before ordering a…