COLORADO COMMON CAUSE v. BLEDSOE

No. 89SC465.

810 P.2d 201 (1991)

COLORADO COMMON CAUSE, the Colorado affiliate of Common Cause, a District of Columbia nonprofit corporation, Wayne N. Knox, a member of the House of Representatives of the Fifty-Seventh General Assembly of the State of Colorado, and Renita Greenberg, a citizen and taxpayer of the State of Colorado, Petitioners, v. Carl B. "Bev" BLEDSOE, Paul D. Schauer, Chris Paulson, Carol Taylor-Little, Jeanne M. Adkins, Don Ament, Norma V. Anderson, Steve Arveschoug, Charles E. Berry, Ken Chlouber, Mike Coffman, Charles Duke, Lewis H. Entz, Mary Ellen Epps, Jeanne Faatz, Marleen Fish, Faye Fleming, Tim Foster, Elwood Gillis, Tony Grampsas, Patrick A. Grant, John J. Irwin, William H. Jerke, Stanley F. Johnson, Bill Martin, Margaret Masson, Scott McInnis, Richard F. Mutzebaugh, Betty Neale, David T. Owen, Phil Pankey, Barbara Philips, Tom Ratterree, Jeff Shoemaker, Betty Swenson, Shirleen Tucker, John Ulvang, Dan Williams, and Kathi Williams, as members of the House of Representatives of the Fifty-Seventh General Assembly of the State of Colorado, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied May 20, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hill & Robbins, Robert F. Hill, Ronald L. Wilcox, David R. Fine and Rothgerber, Appel, Powers & Johnson, James M. Lyons, Patrick M. Flaherty, Denver, for petitioners.

Welborn, Dufford, Brown & Tooley, P.C., Philip G. Dufford, Gregory A. Ruegsegger, Scott J. Mikulecky, Denver, for respondents.


Chief Justice ROVIRA delivered the Opinion of the Court.

In this C.A.R. 50 certiorari proceeding, the petitioners—a member of the General Assembly's house of representatives, a Colorado citizen, and Colorado Common Cause, a non-profit corporation organized as a "watchdog" for the stated purpose of improving governmental institutions (hereinafter "Common Cause")—seek review of a district court's order dismissing their complaint, which alleged that the...

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