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SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Committee of Five, Inc. v. Sullivan

1:25-cv-01668 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: May 27, 2025

This is a case challenging whether a recently passed provision of the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act (CADA) violates a private company's First and Fourteenth Amendment rights. On May 27, 2025, XX-XY Athletics filed suit in the U.S. District Court of the District of Colorado against the Director of the Colorado Civil Rights, members of the the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, and the Colorado Attorney General, all in their official capacities. Represented by an attorney from the Alliance Defe…

Case Is Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
D.B.U. v. Trump

1:25-cv-01163 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: April 12, 2025

This is one of several class action challenges to the Trump Administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act ("AEA") to circumvent removal procedures and deport Venezuelan nationals without due process. You can see all of the cases here. On April 12, 2025, two Venezuelan men filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus and a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. They named as respondents President Donald J. Trump, the Department of Justice, the Depart…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

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JAIL CONDITIONS
Hiehle v. Aber

1:25-cv-02531 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Aug. 13, 2025

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] On August 13, 2025, Plaintiffs, prisoners subjected to strip searches that were recorded on body-worn cameras operated by La Plata County Sheriff’s personnel, filed suit in U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. Plaintiffs allege that for over five years, from February 2019 through July 2024, Defendant Edward Aber, while serving as the Jail Commander of the La Plata County Jail, engaged in a deliberate, systemic, and pervasive s…

Case Is Ongoing

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
B. (PS) v. Aber

1:25-cv-02763 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Sept. 3, 2025

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] On September 3, 2025, Plaintiffs, women who were once in custody at the La Plata County Jail, all of whom are over the age of eighteen, filed this class action suit in U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. According to their complaint, at Defendant La Plata County Sheriff Sean Smith’s direction, every woman entering the La Plata County Jail is forced to strip naked and endure visual and physical penetration on camera. Allegedly…

Case Is Ongoing

CHILD WELFARE
Rocky Mountain Gun Owners v. Polis

1:23-cv-01077 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: April 28, 2023

Closed Date: June 6, 2025

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, a nonprofit organization, and two individuals between the ages of 18 and 21 wanting to purchase a gun sued the Governor of Colorado in April of 2023. This lawsuit comes after the passage of Senate Bill 23-169, which prohibits persons over the age of 18 but under the age of 21 from purchasing a firearm of any type. Plaintiffs claimed this prohibition violated their Second Amendment rights.

Case Is Ongoing

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Bray v. Griswold

20CV195 | Colorado state trial court

Filed Date: April 27, 2020

Closed Date: April 27, 2020

This case is about the ability of potential political candidates to gather online signatures in their efforts to appear on the ballot through petitions signed by state citizens. This plaintiff was a political candidate seeking to appear on the 2020 ballot for the United States Senate in the State of Colorado. Under the Election Code, major-party candidates seeking to appear on a Ballot through a petition had 57 days starting on January 1, 2020 to gather valid signatures of at least 1,500 regist…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS/CONTRACTING
Kent v. Children's Hospital Colorado

2024CV30455 | Colorado state trial court

Filed Date: Feb. 14, 2024

This case involved a transgender young adult who was diagnosed with gender dysphoria and was denied gender-affirming care. On February 14, 2024, the plaintiff filed this complaint in Colorado state court against Children's Hospital Colorado under the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act (Colo. Rev. Stat. § 24-34-601). Represented by private counsel and the ACLU Foundation of Colorado, the plaintiff alleged that he had been receiving gender‑affirming care at Children’s Hospital Colorado’s TRUE Cente…

Case Is Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
J.P.P. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:25-cv-01048 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: April 2, 2025

Closed Date: April 9, 2025

This case is about a detained asylum seeker’s attempt to prevent deportation to a third country without notice or a hearing. On April 2, 2025, a noncitizen asylum seeker detained at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Attorney General, and the Warden of Aurora Contract Detention Facility. The case was assigned to Judge Robert E. …

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Menocal v. The GEO Group, Inc.

1:14-cv-02887 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Oct. 22, 2014

On October 22, 2014, current and former civil immigration detainees housed at the Aurora Detention Facility filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. The plaintiffs sued The GEO Group, Inc., a private company that provides detention and correction services under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) 18 U.S.C. § 1589, and state law. The plaintiffs, represented by several public interest law firms, sought monetary damages. The plaintiffs alle…

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EDUCATION
Slusser v. Mountain West Conference

1:24-cv-03155 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Nov. 13, 2024

This is a case about the participation of transgender athletes in college sports. On November 13, 2024, twelve student-athletes on the women's volleyball team at San Jose State University (SJSU) filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado challenging a collegiate athletic conference rule allowing transgender women to participate in women’s sports. In their suit, the students named the Mountain West Conference (MWC) and its Commissioner, the Board of Trust…