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Ward Churchill case: Did he really only want $1 in lawsuit against CU?

Earlier this week, we wrote about the Colorado Supreme Court's ruling against Ward Churchill, despite an earlier verdict in which a jury agreed CU-Boulder had violated the controversial ex-professor's rights by firing him. Of course, the jury only awarded Churchill a dollar, but his lawyer said tha ... More >>

Ward Churchill's Colorado Supreme Court loss shows judges protect the powerful, lawyer says

In June, attorney David Lane appeared before the Colorado Supreme Court to argue that former CU-Boulder professor Ward Churchill should be reinstated, since a jury found his firing to be payback for a controversial 9/11 essay. But on the eve of the latest 9/11 anniversary, the court rejected this b ... More >>

Ward Churchill's CU rehiring bid reaches Colorado Supreme Court

This afternoon, just over a year after the Colorado Supreme Court agreed to hear the Ward Churchill case, attorney David Lane will appear before the jurists to argue why the professor, who was fired by CU-Boulder for reasons he sees as payback for a controversial 911 essay, should get his old job ba ... More >>

Ward Churchill case heading to Colorado Supreme Court: Not about 9/11, attorney says

Ward Churchill.​Last November, when the Colorado Court of Appeals rejected ex-CU prof Ward Churchill's bid to get his old job back, attorney David Lane admitted that "the odds of either the Colorado Supreme Court or the U.S. Supreme Court looking at the case are slim." But he and Churchill hav ... More >>

Ward Churchill defending Constitution, Court of Appeals trashing it, says David Lane of CU case

Ward Churchill.​Controversial University of Colorado at Boulder professor Ward Churchill has lost his latest bid to get his old job back, with the Colorado Court of Appeals upholding Denver District Court judge Larry Naves's earlier ruling; read it in its entirety below. The decision angers Ch ... More >>

Medical marijuana: Possible lawsuit against CO health department over license ap rejections

​The rejection of nearly 2,000 medical marijuana applications due to a new health department policy has generated anger among patients and doctors no longer allowed to write recommendations. Now, a rep of the advocacy group Sensible Colorado, which took part in a successful court challenge aga ... More >>

Medical marijuana: Nearly 2,000 MMJ patient recommendations nixed over quiet rule change

​Over the past week or so, medical marijuana patients across the state have learned that doctor recommendations for the card allowing them to use MMJ have been rejected. Why? A new health department policy that slid into place almost unnoticed -- one that's likely to disenfranchise and anger n ... More >>

Ward Churchill case: CU firing should be nixed in name of academic freedom, says David Lane

Ward Churchill.​In February, controversial former CU professor Ward Churchill launched a new effort to win back his old job -- one that brought him to the Colorado Court of Appeals yesterday. How does Churchill's attorney, David Lane, think it went? "It's really difficult to read tea leaves b ... More >>

Medical morning advisory meeting postponed after complaints it was closed to the public

Robert Chase.​Update below: It only took a day for the Department of Revenue to blink. The DOR had planned for this morning's first meeting of its new medical marijuana advisory working group to be closed to the public. But thanks to complaints from two notable MMJ advocates, Cannabis Therapy ... More >>

Medical marijuana activists want revenue dept. to re-open MMJ committee to public application

Laura Kriho.​Cannabis Therapy Institute's Laura Kriho and Colorado Coalition for Patients and Caregivers' Robert Chase succeeded in getting the Department of Revenue to postpone the first meeting of its new medical marijuana advisory working group because it wasn't open to the public. But they ... More >>

Medical marijuana residency rules: Activist Laura Kriho asks, Where's the emergency?

Laura Kriho.​The first rule-making hearing of the Department of Revenue's Medical Marijuana Licensing Authority, slated for 10 a.m. this morning, has been deemed an emergency. But why it should be categorized as one puzzles the Cannabis Therapy Institute's Laura Kriho, who notes that this term ... More >>

Medical marijuana: Could the Supreme Court's Clendenin decision hurt caregivers?

Rob Corry wishes Clendenin could've gotten the Supreme treatment.​The court case People v. Clendenin has already proved troublesome to Colorado's medical marijuana community -- and those problems could soon start growing again. Last October, the Court of Appeals upheld the drug conviction of ... More >>

Medical marijuana timeline: What a long, strange trip it's been

​With dispensaries on every street corner, legislators having rolled out the first regulatory system for statewide marijuana distribution in the country and activists seriously considering an initiative to legalize pot this November, it might seem like Colorado has always been a marijuana Mecc ... More >>

Ward Churchill appeal: If he doesn't win, "tenure means nothing anymore," says lawyer David Lane

Ward Churchill hasn't given up on getting his CU job back.​Last April, a jury found that controversial CU professor Ward Churchill had been fired from his job in part because of statements he'd made. But jurors like Bethany Newell only awarded Churchill $1 in damages -- and in July, Judge Larr ... More >>

Rob Corry threatens Denver City Council with lawsuits over medical marijuana ordinance

A spoof ad showing Rob Corry as a "scorced earth warrior" for medical marijuana.​On Friday, we shared with you a letter by attorney Rob Corry shredding Senator Chris Romer's latest draft of a measure to regulate the medical marijuana industry. Shortly thereafter, Romer backed away from the bil ... More >>

Medical-marijuana businesses should police themselves, says advocate Rob Corry

Rob Corry thinks a trade association would do a better job of keeping dispensaries in line that the government.​Attorney Rob Corry has been on a roll of late, having won over Judge Larry Naves in a recent Denver District Court proceeding that voided a Board of Health ruling about the definitio ... More >>

Live blogging the Denver District Court pot hearing

A Flickr photo.​Last Thursday, several of the state's prominent pot lawyers filed a motion to void a recent Colorado Board of Health decision to strike from its rules what it means to be a marijuana caregiver -- a move that upended the burgeoning medical marijuana industry. Starting at 8:30 a. ... More >>

Brian Vicente on victory in hearing to void Board of Health's medical-marijuana ruling

Brian Vicente helped make the Board of Health back down, at least temporarily -- and he'll get paid for doing so.​As reported in our live blog about a Denver District Court hearing this morning, Judge Larry Naves ruled in favor of medical-marijuana advocates, who argued against a controversial ... More >>

Next big medical-marijuana showdown: Boulder City Council considers moratorium on dispensaries tonight

Photo by Robert FisherNew cases could be closed in Boulder depending on a city council meeting tonight.​Earlier today, Judge Larry Naves gave medical-marijuana boosters a big win by voiding the Board of Health's decision to change a definition of caregiver put into place in July. But advocates ... More >>

Hearing for motion to void Board of Health's medical-marijuana decision set for tomorrow, November 10

Do medical-marijuana caregivers only have to supply medical marijuana? Or must they do something "more"?​On November 5, medical-marijuana advocates filed a motion to void a state Board of Health ruling striking its previous definition of caregiver. During a subsequent conversation with Westwor ... More >>

Brian Vicente on fight to void Board of Health's medical-marijuana ruling

Medical-marijuana providers in the state of Colorado are in a state of confusion right now.​Yesterday afternoon, medical-marijuana advocates filed a petition in Denver District Court calling for a Tuesday ruling about the definition of "caregiver" by the state's Board of Health to be voided. S ... More >>

The appeal of the Ward Churchill verdict

Yesterday afternoon on KHOW, host Dan Caplis, who's been verbally tarring and feathering former University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill for several years now, did a Miss America impression following Judge Larry Naves' decision not to give Churchill his old CU job back, accepting the plaudi ... More >>

ACTA weighs in on the Ward Churchill decision

Ward Churchill, in an image from HBO's documentary "Shouting Fire: Stories From the Edge of Free Speech." Shouting Fire: Stories From the Edge of Free Speech, a documentary currently airing on HBO, includes passages implying that attacks against former University of Colorado professor Ward Churchil ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Smoke 'em if you got 'em

As reported here -- a lot -- Westword restaurant critic Jason Sheehan had a book-signing at Katie Mullen's last evening. And that just happened to be the bar where Ward Churchill and attorney David Lane went after their day in court, where they'd told Judge Larry Naves why Churchill deserves to ge ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Pitch, pitch, pitch

A moment of silence for the passing of a pop-culture icon, gone so young at the age of fifty. Yes, that's right: Billy Mays, star of Pitchmen on the Discovery Channel, has died, silencing that big voice that had become ubiquitous on late-night infomercials. Mays got his start on the boardwalk of ... More >>

Should Ward Churchill be celebrating? Probably...

Ward Churchill waving his dollar on page one of today's Denver Post. The jurors in Ward Churchill's wrongful-termination lawsuit against the University of Colorado at Boulder didn't want to give either side in the case a clear victory -- hence, their ruling that Churchill only deserved a single gre ... More >>

Juror Bethany Newill talks about the Ward Churchill trial

A Flickr photoThe center of attention. Bethany Newill was one of six jurors who determined the verdict in Ward Churchill's wrongful-termination lawsuit against the University of Colorado at Boulder. Earlier today, she shared her views and observations about the case with Westword, demonstrating the ... More >>

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