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Posts Tagged Colorado Supreme Court

In Malpractice Case, Catholic Hospital Argues Fetuses Aren’t People

By | 01.23.13 | 8:54 am

Lori Stodghill was 31-one years old, seven-months pregnant with twin boys and feeling sick when she arrived at St. Thomas More hospital in Cañon City on New Year’s Day 2006. She was vomiting and short of breath and she passed out as she was being wheeled into an examination room. Medical staff tried to resuscitate her but, as became clear only later, a main artery feeding her lungs was clogged and the clog led to a massive heart attack. Stodghill’s obstetrician, Dr. Pelham Staples, who also happened to be the obstetrician on call for emergencies that night, never answered a page. His patient died at the hospital less than an hour after she arrived and her twins died in her womb.

Legal fallout from nuclear bomb frack job reaches Colorado Supreme Court

By | 12.07.11 | 9:05 am

Even as state oil and gas regulators mull over new rules for the disclosure of chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, the Colorado Supreme Court is pondering whether citizen activist groups can intervene on matters like the ultimate frack job in 1969 using a 43-kiloton nuclear bomb.

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Colorado medical marijuana advocates call for full legalization

By | 01.14.11 | 10:59 am

Medical marijuana advocates Wednesday evening called for the full legalization of marijuana in Colorado, saying that until the drug is fully legal, it will always be stigmatized and patients will be subject to harassment. “No patient is really safe until it is legalized for everyone,” attorney Robert J. Corry told the crowd of patients and advocates at a meeting in Denver.

Supreme Court won’t hear marijuana case

By | 01.12.11 | 10:17 am

The Colorado Supreme Court said this week it will not hear a case filed last week in an effort to overturn parts of Colorado’s medical marijuana laws. Plaintiffs say they will file in District Court.

Judge rules against Clear the Bench in campaign finance case

By | 09.24.10 | 6:54 pm

On Friday, Administrative Law Judge Robert Spencer ruled that Clear the Bench Colorado, a group campaigning against retaining three Colorado Supreme Court justices this November, improperly filed with the state as an issues committee and that it must now file as a political committee. The ruling comes after a complaint filed by government watchdog group Colorado Ethics Watch. The ruling limits Clear the Bench fundraising and ups the group’s obligation to report contributions. It is the latest chapter in a legal battle colored by partisan rhetoric and suspicion and it is likely not the final chapter.

Curry to float bill aimed at ending rafter-landowner rights disputes

By | 01.08.10 | 8:41 am

The stories have reached almost rural-myth status in Colorado’s high country: rocks being thrown at paddlers, wires strung across rivers at head height, even occasional shots fired. The problem? Some private landowners really don’t like it when rafters or kayakers float through their property.

State supreme court deals blow to county gas drilling impact fees

By | 12.16.09 | 11:27 am

Impact fees assessed against equipment used by oil and gas companies in Rio Blanco County – most notably ExxonMobil – took a big hit this week when the Colorado Supreme Court Monday rejected a county request to rehear the case.…

Right claims Weld County immigration raid court loss as a victory

By | 12.15.09 | 3:25 pm

Monday, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that a dramatic Weld County raid on tax records last year violated the Fourth Amendment, which guards the right to privacy. The raid, dubbed Operation Numbers Game, was instigated by Weld…

Convicted killer Ray handed death sentence for ordering witness slaying

By | 06.08.09 | 3:00 pm

An Arapahoe County jury decided Monday that Robert Keith Ray will be sentenced to die for arranging the 2005 killing of a witness to another murder committed by Ray a year earlier, the Aurora Sentinel reports.

Supreme Court ruling gives weight to water over energy

By | 04.21.09 | 2:35 pm

Monday’s Colorado Supreme Court decision finding the state’s coal-bed methane gas wells must get well-water permits is yet one more arrow in the quiver of a natural-gas industry claiming increasing environmental and therefore economic persecution.

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