In Fee Case, Colorado High Court Rules 6-1 That ‘Citizen’ Includes Newspaper

( October 17, 2025, 8:02 AM EDT) -- DENVER — With the chief justice dissenting, the Colorado Supreme Court reversed and remanded a lower court’s judgment in a Colorado Open Meetings Law (COML) case, ruling in part that a newspaper “falls within the meaning of the word ‘citizen’” as used in the law “and is therefore entitled to seek attorney fees if it prevails in a COML action”; it also reversed a ruling that any attorney-client privilege concerning an executive session was waived....

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