Posted on 19 November 2009. Tags: Colorado Judicial Branch, Colorado Supreme Court, Dallas Jamison, Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System, Judicial Selective Initiative, Linda Weinerman, Office of the Child's Representative, Rebecca Love Kourlis, Sarah Ehrlich, Theresa Spahn, University of Denver
Theresa Spahn, a former top executive in Colorado’s Judicial Branch, is a new director at the University of Denver’s Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System, headed by former Colorado Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Love Kourlis (pictured).
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Posted in Featured Stories, Judicial
Posted on 29 October 2009.
The highest courts in Colorado are poised to move for three years into space that’s being vacated by Colorado’s largest newspaper at 101 W. Colfax Ave.
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Posted in Featured Stories, Judicial, Supreme Court
Posted on 10 September 2009.
Angelo di Benedetto’s “Lawgivers” mural will be homeless when the Colorado Judicial Building is demolished in May — and no one knows where it’ll end up.
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Posted in Featured Stories, Judicial
Posted on 07 August 2009.
The Senate Thursday voted 68-31 to confirm Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court in a vote that was largely on party lines with Democratic support and Republican resistance. Several Colorado Democrats expressed their pleasure at the confirmation.
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Posted in Featured Stories, Judicial
Posted on 29 July 2009.
As went the vote by a U.S. Senate committee Tuesday, local reaction to Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation fell along party lines.
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Posted in Featured Stories, Judicial
Posted on 26 July 2009.
A 40-something national guards reservist whose military experience includes a stint in Afghanistan is campaigning for voters to remove four Colorado Supreme Court justices — including Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey — when they next come up for retention.
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Posted in Featured Stories, Judicial
Posted on 22 July 2009.
Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Udall Tuesday officially announced that he plans to vote to confirm Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
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Posted in Featured Stories, Judicial
Posted on 21 July 2009.
A federal securities lawyer, a state prosecutor and a private-practice attorney are the three finalists vying to succeed 1st Judicial District Judge M.J. Menendez, who resigned recently to return to work as a federal prosecutor.
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Posted in Featured Stories, Judicial
Posted on 14 July 2009.
Thanks to the most important Colorado Supreme Court opinion released this year so far, state lawmakers are now free to increase state revenue by more than $2 billion by repealing tax credits and exemptions most had considered untouchable under the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, or TABOR.
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Posted in Civil, Featured Stories, Judicial
Posted on 14 July 2009.
The conservative Colorado Judicial Confirmation Network Monday slammed Judge Sonia Sotomayor as being the wrong nomination for the U.S. Supreme Court. Meanwhile, local supporters claimed the accomplished judge would be a valuable addition to the country’s highest court.
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