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A Colorado federal judge on Wednesday pressed the state to explain specific rationales for its semi-open primary system that allows unaffiliated voters to participate in Republican and Democratic primaries, asking how the state justified forcing party committees to reach near-unanimous agreement in order to keep out independents.

A Denver-based oil and gas production company has filed a lawsuit in state court against Colorado oil regulators alleging the company is being forced to pay "an exorbitantly high financial assurance obligation" of more than $130 million related to plugging, abandoning, reclaiming and remediating oil and gas wells.

A conservative radio personality and the broadcasting company that hosts his show have urged the Colorado state appeals court to find that a defamation lawsuit brought by a former Dominion Voting Systems executive who is at the center of unfounded election conspiracy theories should be tossed, arguing that the Dominion employee hadn't shown that the two defendants knew the allegedly defamatory statements were false.

The Denver City Attorney's Office struck a deal to end a lawsuit by two Black women who alleged they were paid less based on their race and discriminated against while the city's previous top lawyer failed to properly discipline attorneys' racist behavior, according to a filing Tuesday in Colorado federal court.

A California federal judge has tossed a Colorado biotechnology company's counterclaims alleging fraud and negligent misrepresentation by a co-founder and technology chief of another firm it acquired for $35 million in 2022, but allowed the biotech's bid for declaratory relief regarding the executive's exit from the company to move forward.

Whichever way the Colorado Supreme Court rules on whether to remand a case involving a $9.3 million jury verdict for a man who suffered catastrophic injuries during surgery, there will be a "windfall" for either his widow or a hospital, one justice observed Tuesday, asking why the widow should not be the one to benefit.

A Colorado jury on Wednesday awarded a regional electric cooperative $26.5 million in its lawsuit against an Xcel Energy subsidiary for two incidents that led to lengthy closures of a jointly owned coal-fired power plant, while giving nothing to the Xcel subsidiary advocating for a plan to close the plant by 2031 to meet state-mandated emission reduction targets.

A Colorado city and a software company blamed each other in their opening statements to a Denver federal jury Monday about an ill-fated multimillion-dollar utility billing system, with city officials saying they were duped and the software firm claiming the city was "unwilling and unable" to hold up its end of the deal.

A Colorado county suing Exxon and another major oil company in a climate change lawsuit has told a state judge he need not heed, and should even disregard, a federal judge's recent ruling on whether registering an agent in the state amounts to consent to jurisdiction, arguing the analysis was flawed.

A Colorado federal judge on Monday tossed a steel mill's claim that its former contractor on a $300 million project hurt the mill's relationship with suppliers and subcontractors by "haphazardly receiving equipment and materials," but left intact a claim that the contractor worked to harm those relationships after being fired.