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   State Courts - Colorado - March 22, 2007

  
Avalanche Indus., Inc. v. Indus. Claim Appeals Office, Court of Appeals No. 06CA0716, COURT OF APPEALS OF COLORADO, DIVISION FOUR, March 22, 2007, Decided
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Overview: ALJ did not abuse his discretion in determining that a workers' compensation claimant's average weekly wage should be calculated based upon her wages nearly five years after she initially sustained her injury because the calculation was a fair approximation of claimant's wage loss.

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Barber v. Ritter, Court of Appeals No. 05CA0752, COURT OF APPEALS OF COLORADO, DIVISION TWO, March 22, 2007, Decided
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Overview: Although a trial court erred in holding that the taxpayers lacked standing to challenge the constitutionality of certain cash fund transfers, most of the transfers did not violate Colo. Const. art. X, § 20, and art. XI, §§ 3 and 4, as the special funds were not changed into tax funds and the transfers at issue did not create debt.

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Benzing v. Farmers Ins. Exch., Court of Appeals No. 05CA1633, COURT OF APPEALS OF COLORADO, DIVISION THREE, March 22, 2007, Decided
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Overview: In a dispute pertaining to the purchase of uninsured motorist and underinsured motorist coverage, trial court abused its discretion in decertifying a class, pursuant to Colo. R. Civ. P. 23, because insurers could have made argument that insureds received meaningful benefit from additional coverage earlier, but failed to do so.

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City Council v. S. Suburban Park & Rec. Dist., Court of Appeals No. 05CA0292, COURT OF APPEALS OF COLORADO, DIVISION THREE, March 22, 2007, Decided
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Overview: Where a city sought exclusion of property from a special district under Colo. Rev. Stat. § 32-1-502 and a trial court ordered the exclusion, remand was warranted because the trial court erred in finding that to be "fair and equitable" under § 32-1-502 it had to require the city to reimburse the district for the fair market value of the facilities.

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Colo. Mining Ass'n v. Bd. of County Comm'rs, Court of Appeals No. 05CA1996, COURT OF APPEALS OF COLORADO, DIVISION FOUR, March 22, 2007, Decided
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Overview: Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Act (MLRA) expressly preempted a county regulation describing designated chemicals performance standards because it set reclamation standards different from those established in the MLRA; however, a county regulation's ban on cyanide was not expressly preempted, because it was not a reclamation standard.

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Cowger v. Henderson Heavy Haul Trucking, Inc., Court of Appeals No. 05CA0416, COURT OF APPEALS OF COLORADO, DIVISION TWO, March 22, 2007, Decided
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Overview: Subcontractor's employee's injury did not arise from the use of the subcontractor's crane; it arose from the contractor's request that he lift a power line. Thus, there was a genuine issue of material fact whether the contractor was a statutory employer under Colo. Rev. Stat. § 8-41-401(2) when the employee was injured.

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In re Adoption of K.L.L., Court of Appeals No. 06CA1884, COURT OF APPEALS OF COLORADO, DIVISION A, March 22, 2007, Decided
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Overview: Petitioners did not have standing to seek custodial adoption of a child as the child's legal custodians under Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-5-203(1)(k) because, although they had had physical custody of the child for more than one year, there had been no court action divesting the parents of legal custody.

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Isis Litig., L.L.C. v. Svensk Filmindustri, Court of Appeals No. 04CA1619, COURT OF APPEALS OF COLORADO, DIVISION TWO, March 22, 2007, Decided
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Overview: Post-judgment interrogatories issued pursuant to Colo. R. Civ. P. 69(d)(1), 45(f) constituted process, and the discharge of a show cause order was reversed because, when service on a corporation's registered agent was not achieved, service on a secretary of state, as approved by the state's court, was proper and constituted personal service.

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JJR 1, LLC v. Mt. Crested Butte, Court of Appeals No. 05CA2553, COURT OF APPEALS OF COLORADO, DIVISION THREE, March 22, 2007, Announced
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Overview: Because the town zoning code did not create a constitutionally recognized property interest in the preservation of scenic views, the owners also did not have a protected property interest in notice of and participation in a design review. Thus, their 42 U.S.C.S. § 1983 claims for declaratory relief under Colo. R. Civ. P. 57 were properly dismissed.

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Morales v. CAMB, Court of Appeals No. 05CA1392, COURT OF APPEALS OF COLORADO, DIVISION TWO, March 22, 2007, Decided
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Overview: Where monuments marking the boundary between two lots were inconsistent with at least one distance call shown on the subdivision plat, a neighbor was entitled to summary judgment because, under Colo. Rev. Stat. § 38-51-105, the monuments controlled the location of the boundary line and superseded any inconsistent boundary line on the plat.

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