Court Opinions: 10th Circuit Finds Mesa County Officers Violated Fourth Amendment Rights in Execution...
The 10th Circuit found that the plaintiff had satisfied the necessary prongs to overcome the officers' qualified immunity claim.
Court Opinion: PDJ Disbars Attorney After Finding She Continued an Immigration Practice While Under...
Colorado’s PDJ disbarred an attorney after disciplinary authorities discovered multiple times she practiced law while she was suspended for six months in 2023.
Court Opinion: Appeals Court Finds Officer’s Reentry onto Property Without Warrant Unconstitutional
The appeals court found that a responding officer’s reentry onto the property without a warrant after a “knock and talk” was unconstitutional.
Court Opinions: 10th Circuit Vacates Qualified Immunity in a Malicious Prosecution Case
The 10th Circuit reversed the district court’s finding of qualified immunity for a malicious prosecution claim and remanded it to the district court to consider the other remaining elements in the case.
Court Opinions: PDJ Disbars Attorney for Multiple Stock Violations
Colorado’s PDJ disbarred an attorney for conduct that violated multiple rules during his time as a founder, general counsel and corporate secretary of a software startup.
Court Opinions: Appeals Court Rules on an Aspect of Borrowing Plausibility
The appeals court found that in the case of Houser v. CenturyLink, Houser may borrow plausibility by incorporating allegations from confidential witnesses cited in another complaint.
Court Opinions: 10th Circuit Holds Confrontation Clause Error was Harmless in Alexander Pogosyan Appeal
The 10th Circuit agreed with the district court that the Colorado Court of Appeals erred with regard to the confrontation clause in the Alexander Pogosyan case, but agreed with the district court that the error was harmless.
Court Opinions: Supreme Court Denies Stays on Preliminary Injunctions Against Expanded Sex Discrimination Definition...
The Supreme Court ruled the government didn’t meet its burden to disprove the new allegedly unlawful provisions impact others of the rule.
Philip Hornbein, a Force Inside and Outside the Courtroom
In a multi-decade legal career, Philip Hornbein led the state’s Democratic Party, opposed the Ku Klux Klan and defended many Coloradans in court.
Court Opinions: Appeals Court Affirms Permanent Injunction Against Huerfano County Sheriff’s Office
The Colorado Court of Appeals affirmed the declaratory judgment and permanent injunction for Crim. P. 16 compliant materials brought against it by District Attorney Henry Solano.