History

In 1999, the Colorado Court of Appeals affirmed a district court order that set aside a provision repeal from the Colorado Department of Personnel which would have replaced the procedure with one that allowed agencies to terminate employees who couldn’t return to work after six months of continuous leave.

The state Supreme Court in 2004 ruled state employees and labor organizations had standing to sue the governor over an executive order.

In 1974, the Colorado Supreme Court had to determine what standards need to be met to terminate parental rights.

Stuart Garfield Mace was a Colorado photojournalist who captured the Ludlow Massacre in 1914 and the Denver street car riots in 1920.

Colorado attorney and U.S. Sen. Karl Cortlandt Schuyler was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver in New York City in 1933.

The New Deal was designed to stabilize the economy during the Great Depression but what did it mean for Colorado?

What’s in the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement with tobacco companies and what does it mean for Colorado?

The long road to the ADA started in Denver in 1978 with 19 protestors gathered in front of various city buses, causing a 24-hour long traffic jam.

In 1920, a deadly strike hit Denver in what one local paper described at the time as “one of the worst riots in the city’s history.”

To DGS partner Donald Graham, all his significant accomplishments seemed to be secondary to his love of the law and his wife, Lucile.