November 21, 2023
A Colorado law mandating disclosure of the potential impact on funding for state programs from tax changes in ballot measures does not regulate private speech or violate the First Amendment, Colorado's secretary of state told a federal court.
August 30, 2023
A Colorado federal judge Wednesday denied a conservative group's injunction bid, for now, to force the state to redo titles for two of its proposed tax initiatives, ruling from the bench that a state law requiring that the titles disclose the measures' impact on funding for state programs doesn't violate the group's free speech rights.
August 29, 2023
A Colorado group told a federal judge in a brief posted Tuesday that titles assigned to its proposed ballot measures to cap property tax increases and cut the state sales tax violate their First Amendment rights and should be replaced.
August 28, 2023
A Colorado federal judge should reject an anti-tax group's effort to replace the titles approved for two ballot measures, Gov. Jared Polis and Colorado's secretary of state said, defending a law requiring certain financial information in the ballot language.
August 17, 2023
A conservative Colorado group asked a federal judge to order new titles for a pair of proposed tax-cutting ballot measures, saying a financial disclosure law requiring the measures to state they would reduce funding is unconstitutional.
August 08, 2023
A Colorado conservative group is looking to overturn a state law that requires tax-lowering ballot measures to say they would "reduce funding for state" programs, decrying the statute as a violation of the First Amendment, according to a federal lawsuit filed against the governor.