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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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May 15, 2020

Barnes v. City of Colorado Springs

This lawsuit charges that three Colorado Springs police officers, with their employer’s blessing, engaged in racial profiling and biased policing when they targeted Corey Barnes, a Black...

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Apr 8, 2020

Carranza v. Reams

The Lawsuit Seeks an Emergency Order to Protect High-risk People in Jail From COVID-19

DENVER – A team of ACLU and civil rights attorneys...

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Apr 3, 2020

Office of the State Public Defender v. County and District Courts for the First Through Twenty-Second Judicial Districts

DENVER – The Office of the Colorado State Public Defender, Colorado Criminal Defense Bar and the Office of Alternate Defense Counsel filed two...

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Dec 10, 2019

Hodgkins et al v. Frontier Airlines, Inc.

DENVER — The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Colorado, Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP, and Towards Justice filed two companion lawsuits against Frontier Airlines today for systematically...

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Nov 12, 2019

SAMIMI-GOMEZ et al v. THE GEO GROUP, INC. et al

In this lawsuit, the children of Kamyar Samimi seek to hold the Geo Group accountable for the wrongful death of their father. Mr. Samimi, a Legal Permanent Resident, died in December 2017,...

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Sep 10, 2019

Marceleno et al v. City of Greeley, Colorado

Laws that ban panhandling have often been used as a tool to harass poor persons and move them away from public places. In Colorado and elsewhere in the country, court have rejected or severely...

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