Courts

The 10th Circuit affirmed the denial of qualified immunity for a Denver deputy sheriff who struck a pretrial detainee for spitting, finding the alleged constitutional violation was clearly established.

The Colorado Supreme Court held that only the state has standing to prosecute dependency and neglect cases, rejecting a child’s attempt through counsel for youth to continue a case the state had moved to dismiss and overruling a 39-year-old precedent to the contrary.

The Supreme Court reversed a ruling that vacated approval for Utah’s Uinta Basin Railway, holding NEPA doesn't require analysis of environmental impacts of upstream and downstream projects.

The Colorado Court of Appeals affirmed a juvenile court’s adjudication, finding that although the court erred in allowing the victim to testify via closed-circuit television, the error was constitutionally harmless.

The 10th Circuit vacated a federal firearm conviction, ruling that a prior Colorado drug offense didn’t qualify as a predicate felony under federal law.

The state Supreme Court interpreted the laws surrounding restitution orders and sentencing procedures, clarifying which orders are timely under People v. Weeks.

An equally divided Supreme Court affirmed a ruling rejecting a bid from an Oklahoma virtual charter school to be the country’s first state-funded religious charter school.

In an allocation of parental responsibilities case, the appeals court found the district court erred when it granted a motion by a maternal grandmother to get majority parenting time and sole decision-making authority over the child’s father after the child’s mother died before the APR order could be issued.

In an unsigned opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court found that President Donald Trump may not use the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan nationals without due process.