Tag: Terry Fox
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Dentist’s defamation lawsuit against woman who left negative reviews dismissed by appeals court
Colorado’s second-highest court has dismissed a dentist’s defamation lawsuit against a Crestone woman who left him negative reviews following her unsatisfactory root canals, basing its ruling on a recently-enacted state law designed to block meritless lawsuits involving First Amendment activity. Creekside Endodontics of Lone Tree and its dentist, Andrew Stubbs, sued former patient Kathryn Sullivan…
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$10,000 contribution to county commissioner did not require recusal, appeals court says
A Larimer County judge was wrong to conclude a county commissioner needed to recuse himself from a land-use vote in which one of the parties was responsible for nearly 20% of his campaign contributions, the state’s Court of Appeals has ruled. District Court Judge Juan G. Villaseñor believed Coulson Excavating Company, Inc. had effectively chosen its own judge…
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Colorado court reverses convictions after El Paso judge denied fair trial to defendant
An El Paso County judge misapplied the law and allowed harmful information to be heard at the defendant’s trial, Colorado’s second-highest court concluded last week in reversing the convictions of Israel Santillan Lopez. Further, the prosecution acknowledged Lopez was correct that District Court Judge Marcus Henson also omitted a key element of the crime of felony…
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Appeals court says man representing himself was not crazy, but ‘sovereign citizen’
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While all parties agreed that Charles James Crabtree had acted bizarrely throughout his drunken-driving case, Colorado’s second-highest court determined it was not mental illness, but rather Crabtree’s belief in the “sovereign citizen” movement that motivated his aberrant behavior. The state’s Court of Appeals consequently declined to overturn Crabtree’s conviction for driving under the influence, even…