Tag:Department of Human Services

Colorado House approves $40.6 billion amended state budget

The Colorado House of Representatives approved the state’s $40.6 billion budget and its accompanying bills on Monday, approaching the end of the constitutionally-required, months-long process to craft a balanced spending plan.

Free Communication For Those Incarcerated in Colorado by 2025

Gov. Jared Polis recently signed House Bill 23-1133 into law impacting prisoners’ ability to communicate with the outside world.

A Painful Cut to Legal Aid Funding

The economic damage of the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an untimely cut to state grant funding of civil legal aid for domestic violence...

Top Women 2020: Ellie Lockwood

As a partner, and Denver office litigation practice group leader at Snell & Wilmer, Ellie Lockwood litigates cases of all types in federal and...

Court Opinions- Jun 01, 2020

People v. Espinoza Martin Espinoza was charged with first-degree arson, third-degree assault and attempted first-degree murder (extreme indifference), with corresponding crime-of-violence counts, arising out of...

Court Opinions- Jan 13, 2020

People v. Dominguez-Castor On March 1, 2014, Robert Phippen, 79, was found dead inside his home. Someone had stabbed him approximately 60 times, strangled him...

Court Opinions – Oct 28, 2019

People v. Johnson A division of the Colorado Court of Appeals considered the limits of the impeachment exception to the exclusionary rule announced in Walder...

Court Opinions- Jan 21, 2019

Colorado v. Medved John and Debra Medved challenged the Colorado Department of Revenue on the claim that the statute of limitations period ended for their...