Tag: Justice Carlos Samour
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Colorado Supreme Court green-lights lawsuit over climate change impacts to Boulder County
Justice Carlos Samour, writing in dissent, believed it would be ‘chaos’ to allow local governments to sue fossil fuel producers
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Appeals judges give Colorado lawyers inside view of courts | APPELLATE UPDATE
‘We’re not there to make you look foolish. We’re really just trying to have a dialogue,’ said Justice William Hood
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Colorado justices weigh calculation of damages to victims of medical malpractice
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Members of the Colorado Supreme Court considered on Tuesday whether a decades-old limitation on medical malpractice awards also creates an absolute restriction on the interest that injured plaintiffs can receive when they prevail at trial. The question affects the balance between fairly compensating people who…
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Colorado justices mull lawsuit over fossil fuel producers’ liability for alleged local climate change harms
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Members of the Colorado Supreme Court considered on Tuesday whether to permit Boulder County and the city of Boulder to seek damages against two oil and gas producers for the harms they allegedly caused over multiple decades by concealing and misrepresenting the dangers of climate…
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Colorado Supreme Court retracts decision recognizing right to jury trial in eviction cases
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The Colorado Supreme Court took the extraordinary step on Monday of retracting its two-month-old decision recognizing tenants have the right to a jury trial in certain eviction disputes. In a three-page, unsigned order, the Supreme Court explained its prior opinion “rested on a factual premise that the Court has now been advised was inaccurate.” Rather…
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Colorado Supreme Court ponders constitutionality of delayed vehicle search
A trial judge believed police waited longer than was necessary to obtain a warrant
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Colorado justices weigh broad definition of ‘criminal justice agency’ in open records lawsuit
‘I don’t know if you ask the average person on the street, “Is the Dental Board a criminal justice agency?” most people would say yes to that,” said Chief Justice Monica Márquez
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Colorado Supreme Court allows certain negligence claims for ski lift injuries, regardless of waiver
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday decided an Oklahoma man and his daughter could pursue a negligence claim against Vail Resorts for a debilitating ski lift injury, notwithstanding the waiver they signed assuming “all risks.” The ruling implicated competing policy concerns for the multibillion-dollar ski industry and…
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Colorado Supreme Court explores limits of ‘Make My Day’ defense
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save There was no dispute that Justin Brendan Martinez shot and killed his friend, Ismael Huerta, inside Martinez’s house. Martinez and another witness described the shooting as a freak accident, one in which Martinez fired his gun at the floor but happened to fatally wound Huerta.…
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Downstairs meth lab case has Colorado justices evaluating duty to preserve evidence
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save When an Arapahoe County judge awarded a woman and her daughter $10.5 million for their injuries, finding their landlord had not reasonably responded to allegations of toxic exposure from a downstairs meth lab, he also concluded the landlord willfully failed to preserve evidence. Last week,…