DENVER (Legal Newsline) – Two-time losers in Colorado courts will be at the mercy of current interest rates when calculating how much interest they must pay because they appealed.
December 22, 2020
When he was 13 years old, Justice Carlos Samour Jr.’s family fled from El Salvador to the United States to escape a civil war and political turmoil. The family of 14 12 children, mother, and father applied for vacation visas, packed what they could into an oversized van, and started driving to Colorado, where extended family lived.
Samour BS ’87 and his family later obtained their permanent residence and eventually applied for and attained citizenship. They settled in the Front Range, where Samour attended Columbine High School in Littleton and went on to earn a psychology degree from CU Denver’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and a law degree from the University of Denver. Along the way, he formed invaluable relationships with teachers, mentors, and professors one of his favorites still works at CU Denver some 30 years later.