DENVER (Legal Newsline) - A waiver prohibiting lawsuits over most types of skiing accidents doesn’t apply in the case of a teenager who was left paraplegic after falling 30 feet from a chair lift at Crested Butte, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled, opening a potentially expensive new avenue for trial lawyers to sue ski resorts.
DENVER, Colo. (Legal Newsline) - Another court has ruled COVID-19 can be considered an occupational disease, clearing the way for Workers' Compensation benefits to be paid to employees who suffered from it.
The unanimous ruling strikes down rulings from Democratic judges in Colorado and Cook County, which had declared individual states have the power under the Fourteenth Amendment to block "insurrectionists" from seeking federal office
DENVER (Legal Newsline) - A Colorado law providing immunity to police officers against most tort lawsuits may protect an officer who switched on his flashing lights and siren five seconds before T-boning a van in a highway intersection, killing the two men inside.
DENVER (Legal Newsline) - A trial judge was justified in reducing a homicide suspect’s charges from first-degree murder to second-degree as punishment for the district attorney’s repeated violations of discovery orders, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled.
In a 4-3 decision, the Colorado Supreme Court has held that former President Donald Trump is disqualified from holding the office of president because he engaged in an insurrection in violation of the 14th Amendment.
DENVER (Legal Newsline) - A Colorado appeals court upheld a $39.9 million jury verdict in a lawsuit over a newborn baby’s injuries from sepsis, nearly 40 times the statutory limit of $1 million in most malpractice cases.
DENVER, Colo. (Legal Newsline) - Workers can wait up to six years to file claims over alleged minimum-wage violations under Colorado law, an appeals court ruled, even though federal labor law has a shorter statute of limitations and employers are only required to keep payroll records for three years.
DENVER (Legal Newsline) - It's a simple public censure for the former chief justice of the Colorado Supreme Court accused of failing to notice a disgruntled former employee had recorded a conversation with another justice before giving her a five-year, multimillion-dollar contract.
DENVER (Legal Newsline) - The Colorado Supreme Court has declared a 2021 law that allowed certain victims of child sexual abuse a chance to file lawsuits unconstitutional.
DENVER (Legal Newsline) - Colorado’s highest court reversed an appeals court’s order requiring a new trial over state claims a career college defrauded students out of more than $200 million, but said an appeals court must reconsider whether the college’s actions had “significant public impact.”
DENVER (Legal Newsline) - A Colorado judge who made drunken overtures to a younger lawyer at a bar association meeting and later followed him to his hotel room was hit with $20,000 in sanctions by a special tribunal of the Colorado Supreme Court, after the judge agreed to step down and accept public censure.
DENVER (Legal Newsline) - A tennis club may be liable for the sexual assault of a minor girl by one of its instructors, even though she joined under a broad waiver agreement that barred negligence lawsuits of any kind.
DENVER (Legal Newsline) - Saying it didn’t want to identify “magic words” that protected securities issuers against fraud claims, the Colorado Supreme Court upheld the reinstatement of a class action against an oil company that boasted about its “experienced and professional workforce.”
DENVER (Legal Newsline) - A law requiring Colorado regulators to promulgate rules designed to allow the state to meet its emission reduction goals didn’t set a firm deadline for anything more than collecting data, an appeals court ruled, rejecting challenges from environmental groups.
DENVER (Legal Newsline) - Colorado can’t sue individual JUUL officers over their company’s nationwide e-cigarette marketing practices, the state’s highest court ruled, citing the U.S. Supreme Court’s longstanding doctrine limiting personal jurisdiction over out-of-state defendants.
DENVER (Legal Newsline) – Two-time losers in Colorado courts will be at the mercy of current interest rates when calculating how much interest they must pay because they appealed.
DENVER (Legal Newsline) - A hospital that hit a patient with a surprise $229,000 bill for back surgery can’t collect because it didn’t spell out the potential cost in advance, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled, applying basic principles of contract law to the complicated business of healthcare billing.
DENVER (Legal Newsline) - An agreement requiring a family-practice lawyer to pay more than $1,000 for each client he took with him when he left his former firm is unenforceable, a Colorado appeals court ruled, although another type of penalty might comply with ethics rules.
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