New Maps Renew Focus on Colorado Congressional Redistricting Court Battle

by CTBC Director | 11:08 pm, August 23, 2011

The unveiling of new map proposals by Democrat and Republican parties over the last few days has renewed focus on the legal battle to determine the boundaries of Colorado’s Congressional districts, since the legislature (specifically the state senate) failed to do its job by passing redistricting legislation as required by the Colorado Constitution and sent it [...]

Monday Media Review: School choice, school funding lawsuits highlight courts’ inappropriately rising role in education policy

by CTBC Director | 8:22 pm, August 22, 2011

Continuing coverage of the pair of lawsuits seeking to have the courts decide educational policy in Colorado (the Douglas County school choice case, and the Lobato statewide educational funding case) over the weekend highlights the increasing role of the courts (as opposed to elected school boards, or the state legislature in whom constitutional authority for [...]

Weekend Wrap-up: Colorado courts ruling o’er state schools

by CTBC Director | 1:11 pm, August 13, 2011

Citizens of Colorado hold elections every year to send representatives to different venues to consider and decide on policy (and allocate resources) for their children’s education: in odd-numbered years, for local school boards; in even-numbered years, for the state legislature, which has the constitutional authority to “provide for the establishment and maintenance of a thorough and [...]

Clear The Bench Colorado Director Matt Arnold featured panelist at National Conference on Evaluating Appellate Judges today

by CTBC Director | 8:11 am, August 11, 2011

The Denver-based Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS) – “a national, non-partisan organization dedicated to improving the process and culture of the civil justice system” – is hosting a National Conference on Evaluating Appellate Judges on 11-12 August on the campus of the University of Denver (Sturm Hall, 2000 E. Asbury Avenue, Denver [...]

Monday Media Survey – Lobato education-funding lawsuit budget-buster aided and abetted by Colorado Supreme Court

by CTBC Director | 8:08 am, August 8, 2011

The potentially budget-busting Lobato v. Colorado education-funding lawsuit – restored to life in October 2009 by the Colorado Supreme Court after having been rejected as non-justiciable by two lower courts – enters its second week of trial court hearings today.
Numerous analysts and commentators have noted that if the Lobato lawsuit succeeds, it will negatively impact Colorado’s [...]

Colorado Reapportionment Commission schedule summary and state legislative district preliminary map wrap

by CTBC Director | 8:01 am, August 1, 2011

The Colorado Reapportionent Commission (charged with drawing our state legislative districts) has completed the final set of preliminary legislative district maps for Colorado, having heard public testimony in meetings in Denver from 31 May to 25 July and bringing the maps to a vote in committee.
The commission now takes the show on the road, traveling [...]

Looming education-funding fiscal and budgetary train wreck aided and abetted by Colorado Supreme Court

by CTBC Director | 1:23 pm, July 29, 2011

Days before a landmark school-funding lawsuit goes to trial, Gov. John Hickenlooper and Attorney General John Suthers on Thursday took a pre-emptive bipartisan stand against the legal challenge, arguing that it could cost the state billions of dollars if it loses in court. (Denver Post, “Colorado governor, attorney general stand against education-funding challenge“)
When Colorado’s Democrat [...]

Colorado Reapportionment Commission approves the final set (Metro Denver) of preliminary legislative district maps

by CTBC Director | 7:25 am, July 25, 2011

Colorado’s Reapportionent Commission (charged with drawing our state legislative districts) has completed the final set of preliminary legislative district maps for Colorado, revealing the six-county (Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, and Jefferson counties) Denver metro area maps (following the previous week’s marathon session combining public testimony for Regions 6 and 7 on a single day).
The commission’s [...]

Clear The Bench Colorado Director Matt Arnold featured panelist at National Conference on Evaluating Appellate Judges (Aug. 11)

by CTBC Director | 4:11 pm, July 19, 2011

The Denver-based Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS) – “a national, non-partisan organization dedicated to improving the process and culture of the civil justice system” – is hosting a National Conference on Evaluating Appellate Judges on 11-12 August on the campus of the University of Denver (Sturm Hall, 2000 E. Asbury Avenue, [...]

Colorado Reapportionment Commission to reveal preliminary legislative district maps for metro Denver districts

by CTBC Director | 7:18 am, July 18, 2011

Colorado’s Reapportionent Commission (charged with drawing our state legislative districts) has completed the first round of public testimony on legislative district boundaries (last week’s marathon session covered six metro Denver counties).  Meetings continue this week, however, with new district maps for metro Denver counties set to be introduced in open hearings, beginning at 9:30AM in the Legislative [...]

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