Law

Ska Brewing battles Maryland's DuClaw over trademark for Euphoria

Ska Brewing has been making its Euphoria Pale Ale since 2005, but the latest trademark dispute involving a Colorado brewery isn't likely to make anyone euphoric. On Tuesday, the Durango brewery filed a petition at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, asking the agency's trial and appeal board to r ... More >>

Alex Laundau responds to feds' decision not to charge Denver cops who brutally beat him

Organizations hoping to bury unpleasant or potentially controversial news traditionally release information late Friday, in the hope that many folks already in weekend mode miss the development. A classic example: Justice Department reps chose Friday at 6:30 p.m. to inform Alex Landau that they woul ... More >>

Colorado's juvenile courts suffer from "benign neglect," new study claims

A detailed study of Colorado's juvenile courts by a national coalition of attorneys who specialize in juvenile defense work describes the state system as plagued by turnover, case overload, confusion and judicial shortcuts that sometimes deprive the juveniles in its care of their rights -- and is mo ... More >>

Justin Smith, Larimer County sheriff, says he won't enforce "unconstitutional" gun laws

In recent days, President Barack Obama has proposed new gun control laws following the Sandy Hook shooting -- and Colorado lawmakers such as Representative Rhonda Fields are backing similar measures. The trend clearly concerns Larimer County Sheriff Justin Smith, who's now announced that his office ... More >>

Loveland's Verboten Brewing tells a craft-beer trademark story with a happy ending

Verboten Brewing, which will open its doors this weekend in Loveland, takes its name for the German word for "forbidden," and is a reference to German beer-purity laws, or Reinheitsgebot, which forbade brewers in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries from using anything but water, barley and hops in ... More >>

Left Hand Brewing wages a trademark battle for the word "Nitro"

On September 29, 2011, after the first night of the annual Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Left Hand Brewing publicly revealed a bottled beer that its owners and brewers had spent two years and hundreds of thousands of dollars to create. See also: - Strange Brewing faces a trademark threat ... More >>

If Mitt Romney won't tell you about these tax loopholes, we will

Marijuana: Amendment 64 support letter signed by more than 100 college professors

As Barack Obama was visiting CSU, where he was greeted by 13,000 supporters and an attack sign with a typo, the folks behind Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, released a letter with an academic flavor. It features the signatures of 100-plus professors who back the measure, inclu ... More >>

Denver cops are back to moonlighting at Chloe

Video: Fight Back Colorado to target lawmakers who killed civil unions bill

A new group called Fight Back Colorado has a message for the lawmakers who voted to kill a bill to legalize civil unions: Watch out. The group launched an effort today to defeat those legislators in November's election -- though they haven't yet named names.

Civil unions bill passes Senate, sponsor hopes House lemmings won't jump off cliff

Later today, the Colorado Senate is expected to formally approve a bill that would legalize civil unions. Of course, the Senate also approved a civil unions measure last year, only to see the proposal die in a House committee, with all six Republican members voting against it. Can it avoid a similar ... More >>

Same-sex couples could get a belated valentine from Senate Judiciary committee

The Colorado Legislature has a date with cupid a day after Valentine's Day. At 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, February 15, the Senate Judiciary Committee will consider the Colorado Civil Union Act in the old Supreme Court Chambers. The bill would provide same-sex couples the same legal protections and ben ... More >>

Balanced Justice: New study seeks to make dollars and sense out of criminal justice policy

​Criminals aren't terribly skilled at performing a cost-benefit analysis before embarking on their disastrous ventures, which they usually end up describing as "bad choices, Your Honor." That's all the more reason judges, lawmakers, prison officials and others in the justice system ought to th ... More >>

Medical marijuana lawsuit filed, claims regulations violate state constitution

Kathleen Chippi.​In May, cannabis advocate Kathleen Chippi asked for donations to help her file a lawsuit to challenge Colorado medical marijuana regulations, which went into effect today. And while she didn't collect quite as much as she hoped, the total was enough to make the suit viable. It ... More >>

Library of Congress and Sony Music team up for massive collection of free vintage recordings

The Library of Congress has just turned on its new streaming audio service, which includes a large piece of the national archives totaling around 10,000 titles. The joint venture of Sony and the Library of Congress gives users access to many Sony-controlled recordings that have long been out of circ ... More >>

Rocky Mountain Right website goes on hiatus due to fear of being sued by Denver Post

RMR logo.​Visitors to Rocky Mountain Right's website can usually find conservative news and commentary -- but not right now. The home page is currently emblazoned with the phrase "Access Denied." That's because site overseer Antony Surace has temporarily blocked users to the page due to concer ... More >>

Denver Post parent MediaNews Group puts Mike Rosen column at center of copyright suit

Dean Singleton.​Last month, we noted that Denver Post and MediaNews Group execs weren't eager to discuss a copyright-infringement warning published by the paper. At the time, we asked these three questions: "So... what prompted the Post to rattle this saber? Are lawsuits imminent? And against ... More >>

Tonight: Growing up White on the Reservation revisits a turbulent time in 1972

Pamela Mencher is white.​Pamela Mencher has spent eleven years working on her play -- but in some ways, she's been working on it her whole life. Born on a Lakota/Sioux reservation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, Mencher spent her formative years there and on a Blackfeet reservation in Montana dur ... More >>

Striptease pays off: Boulder City council offers $10,000 to boxer-shorts-protester Seth Brigham

Seth Brigham under arrest.​Back in February, we told you about Seth Brigham's nipple-baring appearance at a Boulder City Council meeting -- a protest of sorts against a proposed nudity ordinance that would have criminalized the display of female nipples in the city. Brigham, who remained in hi ... More >>

Medical marijuana dispensary victory in Castle Rock: Town backs down

Plants 4 Life is back to serving customers dishes like this.​On Monday, we updated you onthe story of Plants 4 Life, a Castle Rock medical marijuana dispensary that had received a business license from the town only to be prevented from selling its main product because weed is illegal under fe ... More >>

Live blog: Charlie Brown presents his pot proposal

Charlie Brown is the man with the plan.​This morning, Denver City Councilman Charlie Brown presented his proposed ordinance to regulate the city's medical marijuana dispensaries to the council's Safety Committee. We live blogged the hearing; you'll find Brown's proposal at the bottom of this p ... More >>

From the week of October 8, 2009

Threat against abortion doctor Warren Hern: Read the indictment here

Warren Hern, in an image from a Boulder Daily Camera video.​As Patricia Calhoun pointed out earlier this morning, Boulder's Warren Hern, the last practitioner in the U.S. still doing late-term abortions, was the subject of a death threat by a Spokane, Washington, man, Donald Hertz, mere weeks ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Disorder in the court

The fireworks started early for the 4th. Early last week, we got a call from a reporter in Mankato, Minnesota, researching a story about Steve Horner, the anti-ladies night crusader who started his fight in that state (where he wound up in jail for harassing the head of Minnesota's civil rights co ... More >>

Judge Naughty's accuser is hell on lawyers

DA Lacy Clears Ramseys; Skeptics Remain Skeptical

The Denver Post's Miles Moffeit Wins Two Awards -- One Unofficially

Ladies’ Nights, RIP

And you know who to blame: Steve Horner.

Make Yourself at Home

Last Call for Ladies’ Nights?

If Steve Horner gets his way, ladies could be singing the booze.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of 2/22/2007

Love Crazy

The nurse, the cop, the yegg: Fate brought them together and claimed four lives. Then the newspapers stepped in, and things really got insane.

The High Cost of Free Speech

RTD pays a six-figure settlement for muzzling its own directors.

Follow That Story

Nurses Denied

A Chemistry Experiment

The Denver Drug Court tests a formula for reclaiming addicts.

Good Cop, White Cop

Ronnie Williams says he's being punished for trying to start a white officers' association.

Pop Quiz

As genetic testing pins down paternity issues, the definition of fatherhood gets murkier.

Wirtz Case Scenario

A jailhouse lawyer takes on The Man in Grand County.

Unlawful Intentions

High crimes and pissed demeanors in Arapahoe County.

Jailbait

Denver's entire law-enforcement community seems to think we need a bigger house. But a few holdouts say that first we need wiser law enforcement

Foreclosure Encounters

By the time one of these investors gets his foot inside the door, your house is as good as gone.

Caught on Tape

One day, anti-stalker Michael Newell became a TV hero. But not everyone was happy about it.

Hell to Pay

A child-support check promised by an ex-husband bounces, and the authorities go after the mother.

Little Boy Lust

How a Denver teacher of the year victimized a Vietnamese immigrant family.

Nightmare on the Net

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

The Hits Keep on Coming

Already in jail awaiting trial in a murder-for-hire case, James Darnell allegedly can't stop plotting.

BRUSH WITH THE LAW

YOUNG DELINQUENTS CHURN OUT ARTWORK TO EARN MONEY FOR RESTITUTION.

TOUGH TO SWALLOW

CU WAGES A DRUG WAR OVER THE PRENATAL VITAMIN MATERNA.

DON'T LOOK NOW

HE WATCHED A CRIME FROM HIS OFFICE WINDOW. NOW THEY'RE WATCHING HIM.SHOOT TO CHILL WILL WITNESS INTIMIDATION TURN THIS ASSAULT ON THE 16TH STREET MALL INTO AN OPEN-AND-SHUT CASE?

PHONE "PALS"

SCAMSTERS RUN SOME NEW TRICKERY PAST THE ELDERLY.