| 25-6588 |
Derek Skellchock v. Laurie K. Dean, Judge, 8th Judicial District Court, Larimer County, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2026-01-15 |
Pending |
civil-rights constitutional-law federal-preemption judicial-jurisdiction supremacy-clause va-benefits |
Whether state judges are bound by federal law under the Supremacy Clause and can be sued for damages when exceeding jurisdictional limits |
| 25-702 |
CO2 Committee, Inc. v. Montezuma County, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-12-17 |
Pending |
civil-rights district-court facial-attack motion-to-dismiss rule-12b1 tenth-circuit |
Because the District Court and the County agreed on the facial attack procedure, should the Tenth Circuit on appeal have reversed the Order of the Dis… |
| 25-581 |
St. Mary Catholic Parish, Littleton, Colorado, et al. v. Lisa Roy, in Her Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Early Childhood, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Pending |
constitutional-law discretion employment-division-v-smith general-applicability religious-freedom secular-conduct |
Whether proving a lack of general applicability under Employment Division v. Smith requires showing unfettered discretion or categorical exemptions fo… |
| 25A520 |
Ethan West-Helmle v. Denver District Attorney's Office, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-05 |
Application |
ada-violation disability-discrimination medical-impairment professional-externship reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act |
Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act and Rehabilitation Act protect law students with medical impairments from discriminatory treatment during … |
| 25-442 |
Joseph J. Roybal, Sheriff, El Paso County, Colorado, et al. v. Darlene Griffith |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-10-10 |
Pending |
constitutional-scrutiny due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection prison-policies transgender-rights |
Whether a transgender inmate's challenge to sex-based prison policies is subject to heightened scrutiny or a deferential standard of review |
| 25A127 |
Bill Elder, Sheriff, El Paso County, Colorado, et al. v. Darlene Griffith |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-07-30 |
Presumed Complete |
civil-rights deliberate-indifference detainee-care law-enforcement mental-health tenth-circuit |
Whether a law enforcement agency's policies and practices can constitute deliberate indifference in a civil rights claim alleging inadequate mental he… |
| 24-6315 |
Eric St. George v. City of Lakewood, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-01-15 |
Denied |
clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process police-shooting qualified-immunity tenth-circuit |
Whether the Tenth Circuit's application of White v. Pauly to a 2016 shooting under Qualified Immunity constitutes a permissible legal interpretation o… |
| 24-226 |
Grace Bible Fellowship, et al. v. Jared Polis, Governor of Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-08-29 |
Denied |
article-iii-standing constitutional-rights declaratory-relief first-amendment jurisdictional-analysis mootness |
Whether plaintiffs seeking only declaratory relief lack Article III standing when alleging past constitutional injuries without ongoing or imminent de… |
| 24-216 |
Advance Colorado, et al. v. Jena Griswold, Colorado Secretary of State |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-08-28 |
Denied |
ballot-measures first-amendment government-speech legislative-interference petition-rights tax-reduction |
Does the government-speech doctrine immunize state efforts to compel false and pejorative language on ballot initiative petitions that undermine tax r… |
| 24A64 |
Grace Bible Fellowship, et al. v. Jared Polis, Governor of Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-07-19 |
Presumed Complete |
covid-restrictions first-amendment free-exercise public-health religious-liberty state-action |
Whether COVID-19 public health restrictions imposed by state officials violated the Free Exercise Clause by imposing more stringent limitations on rel… |
| 24-5081 |
Larry Edward Webster, Jr. v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office of Colorado, et al. |
Colorado |
2024-07-15 |
Denied |
access-to-courts administrative-law administrative-review appellate-procedure civil-procedure colorado-constitution constitutional-rights due-process judicial-access workers-compensation |
Whether 8-43-307, C.R.S. (1994 Supp) and 8-74-107, C.R.S. (1986 1994 Supp) and C.A.R. 46.4 and 46.7 unconstitutionally deny workers compensation parti… |
| 24A6 |
Advance Colorado, et al. v. Jena Griswold, Colorado Secretary of State |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-07-08 |
Presumed Complete |
ballot-initiative compelled-speech false-speech first-amendment government-speech petition-process |
Whether a state law compelling citizens to include government-mandated language on ballot initiative petitions violates the First Amendment by compell… |
| 23-1232 |
Estate of Allan George, et al. v. City of Rifle, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
circuit-split civil-rights due-process factual-findings interlocutory-appeal jurisdictional-limits qualified-immunity scott-v-harris summary-judgment |
Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in expanding this Court's decision in Scott v. Harris to swallow the rule of limited jurisdiction on interlocutory app… |
| 23-7015 |
Colby Jerome Hale-El v. Gene R. Claps, Sheriff, Adams County, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-18 |
Denied |
14th-amendment ballot-disqualification candidate-eligibility civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process election-law federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus notice-of-removal standing |
Whether petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when he was convicted, and whether he was properly denied notice and an opportunity to prove … |
| 23-882 |
David Emick v. Colorado, et al. |
Colorado |
2024-02-16 |
Denied |
civil-rights conservation-easement constructive-trust due-process takings tax-credits |
Did the Colorado Supreme Court err declining to review and rectify the decisions of the lower courts that ignored the very important equitable princip… |
| 23-754 |
Van Sant & Co. v. Town of Calhan, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-01-12 |
Denied |
antitrust-immunity circuit-split civil-rights due-process government-petitioning-activity local-government local-government-antitrust-act noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-doctrine summary-judgment |
Does the LGAA entitle local government officials to immunity from antitrust damages when they act unlawfully? |
| 22-1087 |
Douglas Bruce v. City and County of Denver, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-05-09 |
Denied |
civil-procedure due-process federal-court judicial-review procedural-due-process rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-litigation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine preclude the District Court from recognizing subject matter jurisdiction over the claims filed by Mr. Bruce in federa… |
| 22-635 |
D. B. v. Colorado, et al. |
Colorado |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
appellate-standing child-welfare civil-rights due-process equal-protection family-separation non-parent-rights standing |
Can the Colorado appellate courts constitutionally deny such special respondents the right to appeal adverse judgments? |
| 22-5488 |
Thomas James Dorn v. Verna Carpenter, Judge, District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-09-01 |
Denied |
11th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process human-trafficking judicial-misconduct jury-trial protection-orders restraining-order standing |
Should an appearance be required for a loss of rights, and should the right to trial by jury be explained to the respondent going forward in the unite… |
| 21A580 |
Community Baptist Church, et al. v. Jared Polis, Governor of Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-1328 |
Community Baptist Church, et al. v. Jared Polis, Governor of Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 due-process free-exercise mootness standing |
Whether a statute requires strict scrutiny for facial and as-applied claims where officials invoke it as legal authority to issue mandates which depri… |
| 21-6603 |
Joanna Blauch v. City of Westminster, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
civil-rights constitutional-injury due-process equal-protection false-statements justiciability pro-se public-records standing supervisory-liability |
Whether ignoring live controversies defies U.S. Supreme Court justiciability standards requiring cause applied to injury-in-fact? |
| 20-1699 |
E. M. M., et al. v. Douglas County, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
appeal-rights appeals circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process ex-parte federal-jurisdiction procedural-due-process standing sua-sponte-dismissal subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a 'bright line' rule requires post-deprivation notice and hearing for ex parte child seizures |
| 20A163 |
Denver Bible Church, et al. v. Jared Polis, Governor of Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-05-03 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 20-1443 |
Candace Aguilera, aka Candace Sgaggio v. City of Colorado Springs, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-04-15 |
Denied |
4th-amendment civil-rights fourth-amendment free-exercise implied-license indigenous-rights private-property search-and-seizure spiritual-property standing |
How long can government agents stay on private spiritual property after implied license is revoked? |
| 20A105 |
High Plains Harvest Church, et al. v. Jared Polis, Governor of Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-12-04 |
Denied |
None |
|
| 20-589 |
Reed Kirk McDonald v. Eagle County, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
attorney-fees case-conclusion civil-procedure criminal-conduct federal-jurisdiction federal-removal-law judicial-misconduct magistrate-jurisdiction removal state-court state-court-procedure |
Did the Magistrate for the District of Colorado error in determining that the Bellco and Eagle cases had concluded? |
| 20-416 |
Jon C. Caldara, et al. v. City of Boulder, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights damages due-process federal-jurisdiction fundamental-rights judicial-abstention pullman-abstention |
Is Pullman abstention appropriate where abstaining has a chilling effect on the exercise of a natural, fundamental, constitutionally protected right? |
| 20-5127 |
Thomas Eric Espinoza v. Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
actual-innocence confrontation-clause constitutional-error due-process expert-examination fair-trial habeas-corpus lab-evidence right-to-present-defense scientific-evidence witness-testimony |
Did the trial court deny Mr. Espinoza before trial his right to counsel, a fair process, confrontation, and the right to present a defense that would … |
| 20-5112 |
David Wayne Robinson v. Jared Polis, Governor of Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
14th-amendment booking-fees civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection excessive-fines takings-clause |
Whether the imposition of a booking fee on citizens of the Beaver County, Pennsylvania violates their due process and equal protection rights under th… |
| 19A30 |
City of Thornton, Colorado, et al. v. Estate of Jaime Ceballos, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 18-9096 |
Douglas A. Glaser v. City and County of Denver, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment jurisdiction qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 18-7816 |
Jason Brooks v. Phil Weiser, Attorney General of Colorado, et al. |
Colorado |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
constitutional-law criminal-intent criminal-securities-fraud due-process fair-notice mens-rea scienter securities-fraud statutory-interpretation strict-liability willfulness |
Whether 'scienter' is an element of criminal securities fraud and whether its existence is a question of fact that must be proven beyond a reasonable … |
| 18-7164 |
Nathan Daniel Knuth v. Randall C. Arp, Judge, District Court for the First Judicial District of Colorado, et al. |
Colorado |
2018-12-21 |
Denied |
appeal appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-discretion procedural-fairness standing waiver |
Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals violated Mr. Knuth's constitutional rights to due process |
| 18-595 |
James P. Tatten v. City and County of Denver, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights debt-collection due-process fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act foreclosure fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation rooker-feldman-doctrine standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in creating a special pro se pleading standard for cognitively-disabled litigants |
| 18-503 |
N. E. L., et al. v. Douglas County, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process familial-association full-faith-and-credit interstate-agreement procedural-due-process qualified-immunity right-to-travel |
Whether petitioners' summary removal from Colorado to Kansas violated clearly established rights to procedural due process, a warrant or valid court o… |
| 18-404 |
The Colorado Independent v. District Court for the Eighteenth Judicial District of Colorado, et al. |
Colorado |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
capital-murder court-records criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment first-amendment-access judicial-proceedings press-enterprise press-enterprise-co-v-superior-court press-enterprise-doctrine public-access qualified-right |
Does the public's qualified First Amendment right of access apply to the substantive motion papers, hearing transcripts and court orders filed in a ca… |
| 18-177 |
Kenneth Jerome Dawson v. Board of County Commissioners of Jefferson County, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
bond-release constitutional-rights criminal-procedure detention detention-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-liberty fundamental-right judicial-scrutiny liberty-interest reasonably-related strict-scrutiny substantive-due-process |
When does a criminal defendant's right to be released from jail after posting bond implicate a fundamental right of liberty? |
| 18A125 |
James P. Tatten v. City and County of Denver, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-02 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
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