Tag: Justice William Hood
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Colorado Supreme Court approves new rules for child welfare cases, with tweaks to jury trial right
The justices recently heard multiple cases asking when parents surrender their right to a child neglect jury trial, and the new rules indicate their thinking about some of those issues
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Colorado Supreme Court rejects attempt to blur lines in construction industry lawsuit
The justices explained that breach of contract claims are distinct from negligence claims, and that distinction is particularly important to the construction industry
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Colorado justices consider how much evidence is necessary when suing the government for injuries
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Governmental Immunity Act broadly shields public employees and entities for injuries they cause, with a goal of protecting taxpayer dollars and preventing disruption to government services. However, there are exceptions to the immunity, one of which involves injuries due to the “dangerous condition” of…
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Colorado Supreme Court tells Weld County to follow state redistricting law
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Weld County must comply with the state law governing how boards of county commissioners are to draw their districts, and the county needs to adopt new maps by next year’s election, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Monday. Following the 2020 census, it was undisputed…
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Appeals court once again denies immunity to Olathe officer for deadly crash
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Exactly one year after the Colorado Supreme Court found the state’s second-highest court applied the incorrect standard when evaluating a deadly crash involving an Olathe police officer, the Court of Appeals once again determined the officer and the town are not immune from being sued.…
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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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A tattoo, the N-word, a different crime: Colorado justices hear appeal of former death row inmate
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Almost 20 years after the murders of a young couple in Aurora, the Colorado Supreme Court heard the appeal of the man convicted of orchestrating the killings and who now alleges numerous errors pervaded his trial. Arapahoe County jurors convicted Robert Keith Ray for the 2005 slayings of Javad Marshall-Fields and Vivian Wolfe. He received…
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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 Supreme Court, 5-2, says no new trial following ‘overt, in-court racism’
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Supreme Court concluded on Monday that a Black defendant did not deserve a new trial after one juror disclosed he moved to the overwhelmingly White jurisdiction because he “didn’t want diversity,” and the trial judge refused to dismiss him for bias. By 5-2,…
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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,…