Tag: Judicial Review
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Colorado’s judicial performance review misses key test of judges’ legal knowledge
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A judge’s appellate record — the number of cases overturned on appeal — is not factored in the judicial evaluation process
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Appellate record an objective, important measure of a judge’s performance
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Most experts agree judicial performance commissions should look at a judge’s whole appellate record, but cautiously
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All charter school decisions from state board are final, Colorado Supreme Court rules
The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday rejected a reading of state law that would enable some of the Colorado State Board of Education’s decisions on charter school applications to be challenged in court, finding instead that the law renders all decisions final and unappealable. The justices reversed a ruling from the Court of Appeals, which…
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State Supreme Court wades into intrajudicial conflict over rights of employees
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Colorado’s Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether judges have the power to review personnel decisions involving judicial employees, a rare case in which different parts of the judicial branch are arguing for opposite interpretations of existing rules. During oral arguments on Wednesday, the state’s justices heard that judicial employees are legally different from…