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Our legal team is constantly working on critical cases across the state. Below, you can find some of the cases we have been a part of.

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Aug 9, 2010

Clay v. Pelle

This lawsuit challenges a new policy of the Boulder County Jail that forbids prisoners to send letters and instead restricts their outgoing correspondence to postcards supplied by the jail. The only...

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Aug 3, 2010

Garcia v. Board of County Commissioners, El Paso County

Vincent Garcia committed suicide in the El Paso County Jail in 1983. His family filed a wrongful death and civil rights action against the sheriff and the Board of County Commissioners. When the case was...

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Aug 1, 2010

Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales

This case raises the question of when, if ever, a victim of domestic violence who obtains a court order of protection can sue for damages caused by the failure of police officers who ignore repeated pleas...

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Aug 1, 2010

ACLU v. Vallario

In June, 2006, ACLU attorneys traveled to Glenwood Springs, Colorado to investigate prisoners’ complaints about abusive practices in the Garfield County Jail. (The practices under investigation are the...

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Jul 30, 2010

City of Boulder v. Madison

Homeless persons in Boulder are at risk of being prosecuted under a city ordinance that prohibits “camping.” The law prohibits sleeping outside with “shelter,” which Boulder defines to include any...

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Apr 14, 2010

Wortham v. Dulacki

In this case, the ACLU asserts that the Denver Police Department (DPD) violated the Colorado Criminal Justice Records Act when it refused to disclose any documents from the file of its investigation of the...

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