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A California-based bong maker that has filed hundreds of nearly identical trademark lawsuits against smoke shops and other retailers around the country told a Colorado federal magistrate judge Tuesday that its voluminous litigation efforts are a sincere effort to stamp out trademark infringement that is strangling its business.

Colorado fax services company WestFax has been accused of having a "high degree of direct involvement in what is possibly the largest junk fax operation in the United States," in a lawsuit seeking $12.9 million for thousands of alleged violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

A Colorado roofing company has asked a state judge in Denver to certify a class of companies and workers involved in the roofing industry in the state that had policies with workers' compensation insurer Pinnacol Assurance for a lawsuit alleging the company is wrongfully hitting roofers with extra premiums with its audits.

A quarter-billion-dollar casino expansion and renovation in Colorado "went off the rails" when the property's owner decided to micromanage the project "piece by piece" through approvals for each specific step, altering the scope of the construction agreement, a Denver builder told a state court Tuesday at the opening of a bench trial.

A group of Colorado voters that includes former Republican lawmakers filed a suit in state court on Wednesday seeking to block former President Donald J. Trump from appearing on the 2024 ballot, arguing the ex-president is constitutionally ineligible to hold office because he engaged in insurrection.

One America News Network and one of its star correspondents have reached an agreement in a Colorado defamation lawsuit with former Dominion Voting Systems executive Eric Coomer, taking the right-wing news channel out of the state court case that includes as defendants the Donald Trump campaign and various Trump allies such as Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell.

A Colorado construction company told a Denver federal judge during a bench trial Thursday that Marriott's attempts to dodge liability for an unpaid invoice for a multimillion-dollar hotel restoration in Brazil by claiming its contract was really with a Brazilian subsidiary that owned the hotel is "a classic bait and switch."

Otter Products says a rival's effort to disqualify Merchant & Gould as its counsel in a patent dispute doesn't hold up, arguing in Colorado federal court that there's no real conflict because the law firm represented a different company from the patent holder and plaintiff when it helped write an application for the same patents in the suit.

A federal prosecutor laid bare Friday his frustrations with U.S. Department of Justice officials during a bid-rigging sentencing for an ex-National Security Agency employee in Colorado federal court, saying "people who didn't know anything about the case" allowed the most culpable target in the contracting scheme to escape accountability.

Though Colorado's construction defect law limits a casino's ability to collect on claims against its estranged contractor for delays caused by defects in a roughly quarter-billion-dollar expansion project, delays caused by the construction firm's alleged misrepresentations about the project timeline are not so limited, a state judge ruled Tuesday.