Tag: appeal
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Colorado Springs City Council sets special meeting for Project Taurus data center decision
The Colorado Springs City Council will consider the appeal for the hotly debated Project Taurus data center at a special standalone meeting on Sept. 17. In an announcement Tuesday, City Council spokesperson Michael Montgomery said the meeting will be held at the Pikes Peak Center for the Performing Arts beginning at 9 a.m. The larger…
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Appeals filed to send Project Taurus decision to the Colorado Springs City Council
At least one appeal has been filed over the proposed large-scale data center in Colorado Springs, sending the final decision to the Colorado Springs City Council. The filing seeks to overturn the Planning Commission’s decision on July 23 to deny five previous appeals and allow the proposed Project Taurus data center to move forward. The…
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Colorado Springs sets location, ground rules for data center hearing at Planning Commission
The stage has been announced for the debate over the proposed Project Taurus data center before the Colorado Springs Planning Commission. The city announced Thursday that a special appeal hearing for the data center will be held July 23 at the Shockley-Zalabak Theater at the Ent Center for the Arts to accommodate the expected high…
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Five Project Taurus data center appeals meet requirements, city says
Five appeals filed against the proposed Project Taurus AI data center have met the minimum requirements to move through the process, Colorado Springs officials announced Tuesday. The appeals are challenges to the city planning staff’s June 11 approval of the development plan for a data center from the California-based technology company Raeden. The data center…
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What’s ahead in long process after data center gains first approval in Colorado Springs?
Project Taurus, an AI data center planned at an industrial park along Garden of the Gods Road, has driven weeks of debate in Colorado Springs since the first community meeting to discuss it in April. The development plan for the project was administratively approved by the city’s planning staff Thursday but that will likely be…
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El Paso County sex assault convictions overturned due to judge’s incorrect competency ruling
The Court of Appeals cautioned it may not be feasible for a judge to decide now whether the defendant was competent to stand trial originally in 2010
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Colorado justices’ latest decision prompts questions about rules of the road for appellate judges
Some appellate lawyers in Colorado are scratching their heads after a state Supreme Court ruling this week that avoided wading into the debate between LGBTQ protections and free speech rights, but nevertheless produced an equally heated dispute over process, fairness and the court’s adherence to its rules. On Tuesday, in a 4-3 opinion, the Supreme…
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Pulling back the curtain: Justice William Hood talks about appeals behind the scenes
The Colorado Supreme Court is increasingly taking up appeals directly from the trial courts, said Justice William W. Hood III at a legal event in February, but lawyers still need to understand how to make a compelling argument for intervention. “You’d be surprised how often it’s just sort of hard to figure out what the…