Colorado sunshine lawsuits
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Here is a list of major FOIA court decisions and their affect on the Colorado Open Records Act.
(The cases are listed alphabetically. To order them by year please click the icon below the Year heading)
| Article | Year | Precedent |
|---|---|---|
| CFI Steel v. Office of Air Pollution Control | 2003 | |
| Cole v. State of Colorado | 1983 | |
| Dawson v. State Compensation Insurance Authority | 1990 | This case established that the definition of public body should be construed liberally so as to include bodies that were not necessarily in the original definition but clearly fall within the intention of the legislature. |
| Denver Post v. Ritter | 2008 | This case established that private cell phones remain private and confidential despite their occasional use in public business. |
| Denver Post v. Stapleton Development | 2000 | This case established that private companies functioning on a public bodies behalf and funded or controlled in part by the public body are considered extensions of that body and are subject to open records requests. |
| Denver Post v. University of Colorado | 1987 | |
| Denver Publishing v. Dreyfus | 1974 | |
| Downing v. Brown | 1877 | |
| Freedom Newspapers v. Colorado Springs | 1987 | |
| Glenwood Post v. City of Glenwood Springs | 1986 | |
| Hudspeth v. Board of County Commissioners | 1983 | |
| International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers v. Denver Metropolitan Major League Baseball Stadium District | 1994 | |
| Ritter v. Brad Jones | 2008 | The case reiterated the deliberative process exemption for the state legislature. |
| Times-Call Publishing Co. Inc. v. Wingfield | 1966 | |
| Wick v. Montrose County Board of County Commissioners | 2003 | This case established the criteria for application of CORA based on the criteria established for the federal FOIA, namely, that the public agency in question, "(1) improperly; (2) withheld; (3) a public record." [1] |
| Zubeck v. El Paso County Retirement Plan | 1998 | This case established that institutions created by public agencies, which use or administer public funds, are in fact public agencies subject to the Colorado Open Records Act and the Colorado Sunshine Law. |
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