Subject: Civil Trials

• Breaking News: Quiznos Franchisees Win Injunction

  May 3, 2007

• LANS Corp. Faces the Music

  February 8, 2008

• Denver Judge Allows Quiznos Suit to Proceed

  March 6, 2008

• Delivering the Message

  The women at UPS bleed as brown as the men, and they have the scars to prove it.

  September 23, 1999

• Follow That Story

  July 14, 2005

• Sinking Sub

  August 23, 2007

• Dying for Dollars

  The nursing home industry is earning healthy profits. But its clients may be paying the price.

  October 15, 1998

• Inn Trouble

  An employment dispute mushrooms into a multi-million-dollar headache for a Denver hotel.

  March 26, 1998

• This Job Sucks

  An Aspen man is blown away by an alleged job requirement.

  July 11, 2002

• Blackburned

  Who’s the bigger bully — the smartass attorney who scorched the Denver Fire Department, or the fussbudget judge who threw out the verdict?

  December 13, 2007

• Personal Foul

  February 4, 1999

• You're Toast!

  May 3, 2007

• To Your Health

  Jay Reinan and John Gordy win big against Mariner Health Care.

  December 14, 2006

• Fighting Mad

  Tycoon Jack Grynberg says the energy industry has stolen millions from him -- and billions from the government. What if he's right?

  November 16, 2006

• Flats, Busted

  Lawsuits against Rocky Flats, like plutonium, last forever.

  March 9, 2006

• Skin City

  Is Vicki Johnson an enemy of free speech -- or the last person speaking freely in the fight over who runs Sheridan?

  October 30, 2003

• The Wal-Mart Crusade

  Denver's best-known ambulance chaser rolls over Rollback Smiley.

  December 12, 2002

• Deeper Into Columbine

  The settlements. The spin. The remaining secrets.

  October 31, 2002

• Take a Memo

  State Farm puts a premium on protecting its reputation. Good luck.

  August 15, 2002

• Hidden Damage

  The insurance company claimed that Sunserea McClelland's problems were all in her head. She knew better. But would a jury believe her?

  June 27, 2002

• Language Barrier

  Colorado Central Station Casino takes a hit over an English-only policy.

  May 24, 2001

• Target Practice

  A class-action suit becomes a vehicle for racial justice.

  January 25, 2001

• Lawyers on the Line

  When Qwest took over US West, it took on a class-action lawsuit.

  January 4, 2001

• Bench Pressed

  The logjam in Denver's federal district court is one of the worst in the country. Blame Congress, Timothy McVeigh, greedy lawyers -- and judges who don't have time to judge.

  February 11, 1999

• Under the Knife

  No matter who wins a medical malpractice case, the verdict cuts both ways.

  January 21, 1999

• Hands Out

  For ex-employees of Caring Hands, a libel suit and bankruptcy filing are all about getting paidor not.

  December 17, 1998

• Look Out Below!

  When a Denver gas company started drilling wells in Las Animas County, it brought bad feelings to the surface.

  November 12, 1998

• It Hertz

  A former Hertz employee says he doesn't want to chose between his civil rights and his injured shoulder.

  October 29, 1998

• The Poison Pill

  An internet venture goes bust, leaving some of Colorado's biggest business names with a major headache.

  September 10, 1998

• Bitter Lesson

  The teachers' union loses a costly battle to punish parents who complained about a school counselor.

  November 20, 1997

• Gold Diggers of '97

  The TV star, the fortune-teller, the gun-toting miner and Captain Ecology: Meet the loopy cast of characters feuding over a tiny Colorado gold mine.

  November 13, 1997

• Trouble at Plutoniumville

  Boeing considers sending the Rocky Flats criminal case back to square one.

  October 9, 1997

• The People's Hired Gun

  A private attorney defends the city's honor--and her hefty legal bills, which you are paying.

  September 18, 1997

• Story Time

  How the bizarre child-abuse investigation of a school counselor became a crusade against troublesome parents -- courtesy of the Colorado Education Association.

  June 12, 1997

• SLAPP Shot

  The ACLU jumps into Warren Hern's battle with Ken Scott.

  April 3, 1997

• Nightmare on the Net

  A web of intrigue surrounds the high-stakes legal brawl between FACTnet and the Church of Scientology.

  March 6, 1997

• Reject Your Elders

  November 28, 1996

• An Affair to Remember

  A suit against US West over Robert Harlan's sexual behavior is thrown for a loop by a lawyer-plaintiff relationship.

  June 6, 1996

• Fear and Groping in Boulder

  Power, politics and patronage--three reasons why CU's "zero tolerance" sexual-harassment policy could be one big nothing.

  June 6, 1996

• The Senator's Son Was Indiscreet

  Once upon a time, Hank Brown's appointee for a federal judgeship bailed out young Harry Brown.

  May 30, 1996

• STICKING POINT

  ABORTION-CLINIC SUITS SCARE DENVER FROM NEEDLE-EXCHANGE PROGRAMS.

  October 4, 1995

• DENVER CARRIES ON

  March 1, 1995

• THE MUD'S FLYIN'

  CHARGES OF ANTI-SEMITISM IN EVERGREEN GET BURIED BY DIRTY LAUNDRY.

  February 22, 1995

• A FIRM NO

  A BLOODY BATTLE IS HINTED AT IN A LAW FIRM'S COUNTERSUIT AGAINST AN EX-RTC BIGWIG.

  November 30, 1994

• SUFFER THE CHILDRENWILL A LANDMARK LAWSUIT SPUR CHANGES IN THE STATE'S FOSTER CARE SYSTEM?

  November 9, 1994

• SICK TRANSIT

  HE'S LEFT A TRAIL OF ANGRY CREDITORS AND ONCE SUED THE STATE AFTER FALLING OFF A BRIDGE. DAVID SHORTRIDGE SAYS HE'S A NATURAL CANDIDATE FOR THE RTD BOARD.

  October 26, 1994

• TERMINAL WEIRDNESS

  THE CITY SUES A DIA SUBCONTRACTOR. AND THEN REHIRES HIM.

  September 28, 1994

• CHURCH PLEADS THE FIRST

  THE ARCHDIOCESE GETS AN EX-TEACHER'S SUIT THROWN OUT ON CONSTITUTIONAL GROUNDS.

  August 31, 1994

• JOCKS OF ALL TIRADES

  LEWIS AND FLOORWAX CALLED THEM "SLAVES" AND "DOGS," TWO WOMEN SAY IN A LAWSUIT.

  July 13, 1994

• ACLU sues Denver for alleged false arrests during Democratic National Convention

  Signs of recent times.​It's been a year since the Democratic National Convention took over this town -- and to mark that anniversary, the Colorado branch of the American Civil Liberties Union has taken two legal actions. In the first, an ACLU lawyer is representing eight people in a suit against the City of Denver and police officials asserting the plaintiffs "were falsely arrested without probable cause and groundlessly prosecuted for crimes they did not commit, in violation of the First

  August 20, 2009