LAW WEEK COLORADO
Statewide trial courts reporter Ali McNally wraps up today’s court news.
Grand Junction City Council unanimously agreed Monday night to impose a moratorium on the filing of development applications and issuance of sales-tax licenses for medical marijuana dispensaries. The one-year “timeout” will take effect in mid-December and won’t affect existing businesses.
In related news, the town of Winter Park will consider an ordinance today that will prohibit medical marijuana dispensaries within town limits.
A former assistant to Greeley builder Mark Strodtman testified Monday that Strodtman threatened to kill her child of she didn’t move to Mexico while the case against him was being investigated.
Powertech USA claims that rules the state is writing that would implement a 2008 law protecting groundwater around a mine near Fort Collins is illegal because the rules are too broad while also being too burdensome on the mining industry. They added that public comment on the proposed mine is illegal too.
Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey said that district attorney’s office and Police Department connected a man to two car thefts through the DNA of a family member. The controversial technique is a first in Denver and one of the only cases in the country solved using it.
A senior Longmont police officer will appear in Boulder District Court next Friday on charges of distributing a controlled substance, theft and misconduct.
Judges hearing appeals in the case of a former Oklahoma high school band director serving a six-year sentence for raping two students focused Monday on what the school administrators should have done about the allegations of sexual misconduct by the director.
The Colorado Court of Appeals upheld a $1.2 million pilot’s defamation lawsuit against Air Wisconsin.
10th Circuit Appeals Court Judge Neil Gorsuch wrote that a misplaced modifier in an insurance contract is a “syntactical sin,” but won’t require Travelers Insurance to reimburse Payless ShoeSource for a $2.45 million class-action settlement.
