A Colorado credit union, which announced its change to customers legal rights in two sentences at the bottom of an email that required multiple clicks to see the new policy, gave sufficient notice to consumers, the Court of Appeals ruled last week.
When Katharine E. Lum received a ticket for her car accident, she unexpectedly found herself anxious when she showed up to court representing herself, as litigants in legal matters routinely do. "If I was this nervous as a trained attorney, how must they have felt? Especially folks for whom a traffic fine meant the difference between making rent this month or not," said Lum, a judge on Colorado s Court of Appeals, to her colleagues on Friday.
When Katharine E. Lum received a ticket for her car accident, she unexpectedly found herself anxious when she showed up to court representing herself, as litigants in legal matters routinely do. "If I was this nervous as a trained attorney, how must they have felt? Especially folks for whom a traffic fine meant the difference between making rent this month or not," said Lum, a judge on Colorado s Court of Appeals, to her colleagues on Friday.
The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear two appeals questioning whether a judge should look at slashing a $9 million jury verdict for a botched surgery down to just $1 million, and whether a man convicted of murder and drug offenses received an unfair trial.
"We’ve already been called racist for not immediately adopting these rules," said Justice Melissa Hart. "And I’m not happy about it. I’m really uncomfortable with some of these changes."