The Colorado Supreme Court courtroom, located on the fourth floor of the Ralph L. Carr Colorado Judicial Center, located at 2 East 14th Avenue in Denver, Colorado. Credit: Jeffrey Beall via Wikimedia Commons Former Colorado Chief Justice Censured Over Multimillion-Dollar Contract Award to Ex-Judiciary Employee
"By allowing the Judicial Department to contract with the former chief of staff after she had resigned in lieu of termination from the SCAO, former Chief Justice Coats undermined the public's confidence in the integrity of the judiciary and failed to exercise diligence in the performance of his administrative duties," stated the per curiam opinion.
August 09, 2023 at 02:15 PM
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Judicial Ethics
Former Colorado Supreme Court Chief Justice Nathan B. Coats has been publicly censured over the award of a potentially multimillion-dollar contract to a former judiciary employee who had resigned in lieu of termination and had surreptitiously recorded a conversation with another former chief justice of the court.
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