25 Mar, 2024 Miller v. Amos & Unfair Housing Practices as Affirmative Defense to Eviction By James Fukazawa On February 20, 2024, the Colorado Supreme Court announced its opinion on Miller v. Amos, 2024 CO 11 (February 20, 2024) and held that...
20 Mar, 2024 TABOR's Tightrope: Navigating Fiscal Terrain in Colorado Contracts By Peter Whitmore Tiffany Leichman Jessie Salas The Taxpayer Bill of Rights (“TABOR”) is part of Article X of the Colorado Constitution. In general, TABOR requires voter approval before...
15 Mar, 2024 Supreme Court of the United States Allows Constitutional Claim Against Public Officials For Social Media Activity By Craig Morgan In Lindke v. Reed, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) issued an opinion holding that social media activity can constitute...
15 Mar, 2024 What Nonprofit Leaders Need to Know About the Corporate Transparency Act By Taylor Huse Organizations across the country are grappling with how to comply with the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”), which went into effect on...
14 Mar, 2024 Colorado Supreme Court Extends Notice-Prejudice Rule to Occurrence-Based 1st-Party Homeowners’ Policies By Allison Burke Shannon Calhoun In a pair of decisions issued this week, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that the notice-prejudice rule applies to occurrence-based,...
05 Mar, 2024 Proposed Construction Industry Insurance Regulations Could Require Substantial Insurance Disclosures to Certain Residential Property Buyers By Allison Burke The Colorado General Assembly’s 2024 legislative session is well underway, and this year’s session includes a bill that could impose...
05 Mar, 2024 Corporate Transparency Act Ruled Unconstitutional By Alexander Thomas Late on Friday, March 1, 2024, a federal judge in the Northern District of Alabama ruled that the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) is...
28 Feb, 2024 Charities' Activities Attracting Congressional Attention By Terrance Carroll Isaac Lodico On two separate occasions in the first two months of 2024, members of Congress have invited IRS scrutiny of tax-exempt charitable...
27 Feb, 2024 Alphabet Soup: FinCEN Proposal Would Add AML/CFT Obligations Under the BSA for RIAs & ERAs By Jackie Benson Let me start by translating that headline to English. On February 15, 2024, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) division of...
26 Feb, 2024 'Algorithmic Serendipity': Lessons From the World of AI Hallucination By Brooke Colaizzi Stories about attorneys and litigants using artificial intelligence (AI) to generate court documents have started popping up all over the...
13 Feb, 2024 Student-Athlete? Or Student- Employee? The Crowd Grows Tepid as the NLRB Finds Dartmouth Basketball Players are Employees By Jane Waterman-Joyce On February 5, 2024, the collegiate sports world exploded as the Regional Director for the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) Region...
13 Feb, 2024 Possessory Interest Tax By James Fukazawa Public entities, including the state, counties, cities, towns, and other municipal corporations and public libraries, are generally...
08 Feb, 2024 Supreme Court Confirms Corporate Whistleblowers Don't Have to Prove Retaliatory Intent By Brooke Colaizzi Tackling the tricky issue of how a plaintiff proves an employer's “intent,” in an opinion issued today, the United States Supreme Court...
08 Feb, 2024 FinCEN Implies Certain Tax-Exempt Entities Are Subject to the CTA (They’re Not) By Taylor Huse As companies across the nation grapple with the reality of complying with the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), which went into effect on...
07 Feb, 2024 H-1B Registration Period for This Year Opens March 6, 2024 By Jane Waterman-Joyce U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced the dates for this year's H-1B lottery. For employers seeking to hire initial...
06 Feb, 2024 Polar Bear Sightings in Death Valley: A Nevada Court Departs from Established Understanding of Conversion Rights Under a Convertible Promissory Note By Chris Kenney The common understanding of the right to convert debt to equity under a convertible promissory note has shifted following a Nevada county...