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Although the Colorado Supreme Court acknowledged on Monday that a Saguache County judge was disqualified by law from presiding over a criminal case because she briefly represented the defendant before her appointment to the bench, a majority concluded there was nothing it could do because the defense knew about the conflict and stayed silent.

The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday overruled a 7-year-old decision of the states second-highest court after a plaintiff, the defendants and even one of the judges who participated in the decision called it incorrect.

​​​​​​​Colorado Governor Jared Polis has made two appointments to fill vacancies.

Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday announced his appointment of Denver Juvenile Court Judge Pax Moultrie to Colorados second-highest court, ending the four-year span in which no Black judges sat on the Court of Appeals.

A Colorado credit union, which announced its change to customers legal rights in two sentences at the bottom of an email that required multiple clicks to see the new policy, gave sufficient notice to consumers, the Court of Appeals ruled last week.

A Colorado credit union, which announced its change to customers legal rights in two sentences at the bottom of an email that required multiple clicks to see the new policy, gave sufficient notice to consumers, the Court of Appeals ruled last week.

When Katharine E. Lum received a ticket for her car accident, she unexpectedly found herself anxious when she showed up to court representing herself, as litigants in legal matters routinely do. "If I was this nervous as a trained attorney, how must they have felt? Especially folks for whom a traffic fine meant the difference between making rent this month or not," said Lum, a judge on Colorados Court of Appeals, to her colleagues on Friday.

When Katharine E. Lum received a ticket for her car accident, she unexpectedly found herself anxious when she showed up to court representing herself, as litigants in legal matters routinely do. "If I was this nervous as a trained attorney, how must they have felt? Especially folks for whom a traffic fine meant the difference between making rent this month or not," said Lum, a judge on Colorados Court of Appeals, to her colleagues on Friday.

The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear two appeals questioning whether a judge should look at slashing a $9 million jury verdict for a botched surgery down to just $1 million, and whether a man convicted of murder and drug offenses received an unfair trial.

"We’ve already been called racist for not immediately adopting these rules," said Justice Melissa Hart. "And I’m not happy about it. I’m really uncomfortable with some of these changes."