Colorado’s ‘Gold Standard’ for fair and impartial courts

(This article by Bob Ewegen, Director of Research and Communicaltions at the Mile High Law Office, was written for the Colorado Statesman’s upcoming Law Day edition due for publication May 5.) While other states have been rocked by scandals involving their judicial branch, Coloradans celebrate Law Day in 2011 knowing that our time-tested merit selection, [...]

It’s not every day that the usually courtly Justice Greg Hobbs provokes his learned colleague on the Colorado Supreme Court, Justice Nancy Rice, to figuratively blow her top – while a distinguished audience of judges and attorneys bursts into rollicking laughter and appreciative applause. No, it’s not every day – it’s Law Day. The crowd [...]