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Who Gets The Tax?
The U.S. Supreme Court case Meadwestvaco v. Illinois Dept. of Revenue (06-1413) accepted for review today isn’t glamorous, but the issue it resolves could have a real impact on Colorado’s state budget. The question presented is when a state may…
Who Gets The Tax?
The U.S. Supreme Court case Meadwestvaco v. Illinois Dept. of Revenue (06-1413) accepted for review today isn’t glamorous, but the issue it resolves could have a real impact on Colorado’s state budget. The question presented is when a state may…
Qwest Ordered To Pay $84 Million To Injured Lineman
Qwest has been ordered to pay $84 million to Andy Blood and his wife. The 25 year old Xcel Energy lineman was injured on June 29, 2004, when a Qwest owned utility pole also used for Xcel Energy lines, that…
What If There’s A Blizzard On February 5th?
On a dark snowy February evening earlier this year, I was staring at a neighbor’s front door, half a block from my house. My car’s front tires were in one rut of snow turned to ice, and the rear tires…
Mitt Romney v. Doug Bruce
Mitt Romney, a leading Republican candidate for President wants to end federal income taxation of interest, dividends and capital gains for most Americans. Should he get the chance to implement that proposal the details of how this is phrased…
Your Life Is Worth Is $150,000
A decision of the Colorado Supreme Court today, while unexceptional legally, brings attention to a stark fact. If the State of Colorado, or a local government in Colorado, causes your wrongful death, by any means other than a civil…
Sleeping Dogs and Horses
Colorado is still cowboy country, as illustrated by the kind of cases that show up in its courts.
Yesterday, the Colorado Court of Appeals held, in an appeal from a Weld County case, that it is not conclusively negligent…
CU Rape Case Reinstated
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated a lawsuit against the University of Colorado brought by women who allege that they were raped at a party there, in early December, 2001, recounting in detail the damning evidence against…
Standing, Polygamy and More
Did the Lawrence case from the U.S. Supreme Court, which held unconstitutional a state law criminalizing sodomy between consenting adults, really open the door to polygamy? If you want to have a polygamous marriage, you’d want to know for sure…
Legal Ethics Overhaul
On January 1, 2008, the biggest overhaul in the rules governing the professional conduct of Colorado lawyers in fifteen years will take effect.
Is the 163 page long rewrite just window dressing, or will this really change…
