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May 15, 2026
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Friday commuted the nine-year prison sentence of former Mesa County clerk and recorder Tina Peters to over four years for an election-related scheme in which she baselessly asserted the 2020 presidential election was stolen and assisted with the unlawful access to election equipment.
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May 15, 2026
A D.C. Circuit panel attempted Friday to find the limit on the U.S. Department of Energy's emergency authority to keep power plants running without a regional utility's request, with Michigan arguing that no emergency existed to justify the federal government's orders to keep a Consumers Energy plant online.
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May 15, 2026
A healthcare services company and the former senior executive it accused of disclosing confidential information and trade secrets reached a settlement, dismissing the case less than two months after the company filed its complaint, according to a joint stipulation for dismissal filed Friday in Colorado federal court.
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May 15, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court will take a closer look at a circuit split over the deference that should be allotted to U.S. Sentencing Commission commentary, and a man convicted in the killing of an infant has been released after 27 years served over evidence that points to pneumonia as the likely cause of death.
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May 15, 2026
A casino and entertainment operator failed to protect the personal information of nearly 6,000 employees and beneficiaries in a cyberattack allegedly tied to a "notorious hacking gang," according to a proposed class action filed in Colorado federal court.
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May 15, 2026
A Colorado state judge on Friday approved a Denver restaurant group's $800,000 settlement of a class action by workers who accused it of failing to fully compensate employees and firing a worker who refused to sign a form barring him from joining a class action.
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May 15, 2026
The Colorado Legislature has approved a bill to bar attorneys and law firms operating in the state from sharing fees and revenue with non-attorney-owned firms, known as alternative business structure firms, making Colorado the latest state to tamp down the practice.
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May 14, 2026
Members of Congress approved language in a funding bill that would block the rescheduling of marijuana, Colorado lawmakers gave final approval to a bill to fund research into the psychedelic ibogaine and authorize the establishment of licensed treatment centers, and Rhode Island lawmakers introduced legislation to eliminate geographic criteria from the state's cannabis social equity program.
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May 14, 2026
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has reversed earlier decisions granting five petitions for patent review, citing what he called the challengers' inconsistent positions in parallel proceedings and explaining that four petitions he denied in previous bulk orders were also rejected for the same reasons.
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May 14, 2026
A Colorado Court of Appeals panel unanimously found that two city of Boulder ordinances that ban sheltering in public spaces don't violate the Colorado Constitution, shooting down constitutional challenges from a now-defunct nonprofit and several Boulder residents, according to an opinion announced Thursday.
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May 14, 2026
An insurance defense law firm negligently allowed an $825,000 workers' compensation settlement to be sent to an impostor, forcing Chubb unit Federal Insurance Co. to replace the misdirected funds, according to a complaint filed in Colorado state court.
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May 14, 2026
Denver's Regional Transportation District racially discriminated against its former transit police department commander because he is Black and employs a practice of discriminating against other Black officers, the former commander alleged in Colorado federal court.
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May 14, 2026
Suncor Energy and ExxonMobil urged the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday to reverse a Colorado Supreme Court ruling allowing local communities to pursue state law tort claims for climate change damages, arguing their claims are "avowedly interstate and international in scope."
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May 14, 2026
Technology company Fortive and a medical equipment subsidiary asked a Colorado federal judge for an early win in a former regional sales director's lawsuit alleging she was fired for raising concerns about compliance with anti-kickback rules, contending the subsidiary terminated her due to a restructuring and that Fortive wasn't her employer.
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May 14, 2026
A rural telephone company in Colorado has agreed to pay $80,000 and create a compliance plan to resolve a Federal Communications Commission probe into whether it provided unauthorized service.
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May 14, 2026
Current and former employees of a United Airlines subsidiary providing cleaning services on planes can proceed as a class in their lawsuit alleging overtime pay violations tied to shift trades, a Colorado federal magistrate judge has recommended, finding the claims stem from a uniform pay policy.
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May 13, 2026
A Colorado fire chief urged the Tenth Circuit Wednesday to find a lower court erred in denying him qualified immunity after terminating a union president, with the three-judge panel questioning the relationship between the union's collective bargaining agreement and the U.S. Constitution's requirements.
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May 13, 2026
A Colorado state jury declined to award $32.5 million to the lead contractor of the reconstruction project of a 10-mile stretch of Interstate 70 in Denver, finding instead that the contractor breached a subcontract and owes its subcontractor $1.3 million in damages.
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May 13, 2026
A Tenth Circuit panel appeared unsure that an appraisal of a land exchange between the federal government and a private landowner must be publicly disclosed under federal law, despite claims to the contrary from an attorney representing Colorado Wild Public Lands at oral argument Wednesday.
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May 13, 2026
An Indigenous activist is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to deny a federal government petition that looks to overturn a Tenth Circuit decision that said he can't be convicted of simple assault under the Major Crimes Act, telling the justices that the government's "bizarre" arguments flout the law's plain text.
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May 13, 2026
An Illinois federal judge Wednesday granted preliminary approval to two settlements totaling over $136 million that Atkore Inc. has agreed to pay to resolve allegations it conspired with other polyvinyl chloride pipe producers to fix prices.
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May 13, 2026
The Tenth Circuit appeared skeptical Wednesday of an appeal from a Boilermaker-Blacksmith pension plan and its trustees in a dispute over early retirement benefits, with multiple judges seeming reluctant to overturn a Kansas judge's interpretation that the plan allowed non-boilermaker work after retirement, regardless of the employer's contribution status.
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May 13, 2026
A ranch and home supply chain misclassified assistant store managers as overtime-exempt despite requiring them to spend most of their time performing manual labor, a former worker alleged in a proposed collective and class action in Colorado federal court, adding that the company fired her for complaining about age discrimination.
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May 13, 2026
A Colorado county sheriff's office sought to escape a suit claiming it fired and criminally prosecuted several employees for raising concerns about the sheriff's and undersheriff's conduct, telling a federal court it can't be held liable because the workers complained as part of their official duties.
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May 12, 2026
A handyman was convicted for a string of 1991 Colorado bombings based on a forensic expert's testimony that the handyman's tools matched markings on bomb fragments "to the exclusion of any other tool in the world." Decades later, the defendant's successful challenge to the scientific merit and reliability of toolmark forensics has drawn national attention.