Courts

The 10th Circuit concluded that under the circumstances in the case, which involved smoke and a fire, the officer’s lethal force was justified.

A divided Supreme Court found an independent investigation by law firm Reed Smith and the attorney general’s discovery that the prosecutor knowingly elicited false testimony and failed to correct it was enough to overturn the conviction and death sentence of Richard Glossip for directing the 1997 murder of Barry Van Treese by Justin Sneed.

The Colorado Supreme Court overturned a split appellate decision that reinstated a group of CSU students’ unjust enrichment claims. It held that the claims for breach of contract and unjust enrichment were mutually exclusive in this case.

The high court ruled that for Section 1983 claims challenging delays in the administrative process, state courts can’t deny those claims on failure-to-exhaust grounds.

The Colorado Court of Appeals, in a case on remand from the Colorado Supreme Court, again reversed CGIA immunity for a police officer and a Colorado town.

Colorado’s presiding disciplinary judge suspended two attorneys Feb. 14 for dishonesty or fraud and misrepresentation.

The Colorado Court of Appeals held that the state statute on juvenile interrogations doesn’t include a parental attentiveness requirement.

The 10th Circuit found the district court didn’t err in awarding an employee a severance plan under an acquisition agreement after his role was diminished.

The state Supreme Court determined that child welfare caseworkers involved with the child placements in the murder cases of Kelsey Berreth and Ashley Mead didn’t need to give Miranda warnings.

The Colorado Court of Appeals found that a court had erroneously applied the Counterman standard to a stalking case.