Courts

Colorado’s disciplinary judge placed an attorney on probation after finding she made false statements to a court during a domestic relations case.

The appeals court found that a company’s common law tort duties are independent of its contractual duties and of the implied duty of good faith and fair dealing that exists in every contract.

The 10th Circuit held that a Sixth Amendment violation of confidential communication with an attorney required the defendant to show prejudice.

The presiding disciplinary judge suspended two attorneys for various communications and money-handling issues.

In two companion cases, the state’s high court determined its procedural new constitutional rules in Wells-Yates can’t be applied retroactively to other cases.

The appeals court found that for a pre-CCIOA common-interest community to exist, several factors had to be satisfied.

The issue at the center of the arguments was a National Environmental Protection Act Review that was invalidated by the D.C. Circuit.

In a unanimous decision on Dec. 10, the U.S. Supreme Court held that revoking an approved visa petition based on a sham-marriage determination by the Secretary of Homeland Security is the kind of discretionary decision that strips federal courts of jurisdiction to review certain actions.

Justices Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas all wrote statements concerning the high court’s denial of writs in the three cases.

The state Supreme Court also found that a license plate registered to a different vehicle provides reasonable suspicion of motor vehicle theft and it ruled a public entity may not deny a CORA request because the requestor is in litigation with it.