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An attempt to locate a bank robbery suspect is costing the city of Aurora $325,000. The city agreed to settle a lawsuit brought forth by people who were detained at an intersection while police tried to find a man who robbed a nearby bank. Some motorists were approached at gunpoint by police following the robbery, handcuffed and made to wait two hours before the scene was cleared. Stacks of money stolen from the bank contained a GPS tracking device that led police to the intersection. When police arrived in the area, they weren't able to use GPS to specifically pinpoint...

GOLAN HEIGHTS, Israel — Sen. Rand Paul doesn’t explicitly deny his eight-day visit to the Holy Land represents the launch of a 2016 Republican presidential nomination run. “I consider it as more an effort to become part of an international stage,” the freshman Kentucky Republican said. But at least some of the 40 evangelical Protestant leaders traveling with Mr. Paul think otherwise. “This trip to meet with Israelis, Arabs and Palestinians is absolutely the first step in his 2016 White House campaign,” said David Lane, evangelical political organizer and president of the Los Angeles-based Pastors and Pews. Mr. Paul joined...

Gingrich now appears to have picked up the support of shadowy evangelical activist David Lane, a major kingmaker for the Christian Right. Lane, who rarely gives interviews and generally stays out the spotlight, is widely credited with reenergizing the GOP's conservative Christian base after the 2008 election. Lane was instrumental in convincing Rick Perry get in the race earlier this year, and even helped orchestrate The Response prayer rally, the de facto launch of Perry's campaign. But sources who know Lane say he has been distancing himself from Perry as the Texas Governor slipped in the polls. Now Lane seems...

The Colorado Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court decision denying University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill's effort to get his job back. The court ruled that Denver District Judge Larry Naves was right to direct a verdict in favor of the university and to find that the university was entitled to "quasi-judicial immunity." "We conclude that the nature of the decision reached by the university and its regents, and the process by which that decision was reached, shared enough characteristics with the judicial process to warrant absolute immunity from liability," states the opinion from Judge Dennis Graham, who...

Bill Ayers and a University of Wyoming student filed suit against UW on Thursday, asking a federal judge for an injunction allowing Ayers to speak on campus later this month. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Cheyenne, comes three days after UW banned Ayers, a University of Illinois-Chicago education professor with a radical past, from using any university venue for a planned April 28 lecture. The lawsuit alleges the ban is unconstitutional under First Amendment rights to free speech and to assemble. In 1969, Ayers co-founded the Weather Underground, a Marxist-Leninist anti-war group that claimed responsibility for a...

<p>LARAMIE, Wyo. — A Denver lawyer says he'll sue the University of Wyoming unless it lets former 1960s radical William Ayers speak on campus.</p> <p>David Lane sent the school a letter Monday saying he had been retained by student Meg Lanker. He contends the university violated the First Amendment when it canceled a speech Ayers was scheduled to give in March.</p>

After a four-week trial, a jury in Denver is deliberating the case of Ward L. Churchill, a former University of Colorado professor who says he was fired because of an essay he wrote in which he called victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks “little Eichmanns.” The university says Mr. Churchill plagiarized and falsified parts of his academic research, particularly on American Indians, and cited this as grounds for his dismissal in July 2007. Mr. Churchill brought a wrongful termination suit against the university, seeking monetary damages for lost wages and harm to his reputation. He also wants to...

An attorney is threatening legal action if the University of Colorado doesn't waive a $3,000 fee for student groups hosting an appearance by former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers and fired CU professor Ward Churchill. CU spokesman Bronson Hilliard said it's standard to charge student groups fees to recoup security costs for large events. He said the $3,000 charge is toward the lower end of what the school charges.

They say cops develop a dark view of human nature given all the predators, creeps and failures they encounter. But maybe some attorneys develop a similar affliction: They spend so much time around people portraying themselves as victims of injustice that they begin to doubt that anyone is treated fairly in the normal course of events. Take David Lane, an attorney best known for his defense of Ward Churchill but who has championed real civil liberties cases, too. In a recent rebuttal of a Rocky editorial that opposed sealing the records of arrests that fail to result in convictions, as...

Lawyer: Suspension recommended for prof. 16 minutes ago A University of Colorado committee has recommended that a controversial professor accused of faulty research be suspended for one year rather than fired, his attorney said. Ward Churchill, a tenured professor of ethnic studies, touched off a national firestorm with an essay that compared some of the 2001 World Trade Center victims to Adolf Eichmann, a key planner of the Holocaust. It was some of his other work, however, that led an interim chancellor of the Boulder campus and an another committee to recommended Churchill be fired. The professor was accused of...

Professor Suing To Get Legal Fees from CU. A judge Wednesday refused to stop dismissal proceedings against a University of Colorado professor accused of research misconduct after he filed a lawsuit seeking $20,000 in legal fees from the school. Denver District Judge Stephen Phillips agreed with university attorney Patrick O'Rourke who argued that ethnic studies professor Ward Churchill would still be able to seek attorneys' fees and lost wages if he successfully fights to keep his job. Churchill has denied the allegations and is appealing a recommendation by university officials that he be fired. Churchill's attorney, David Lane, asked Phillips...

[... snip ...] Attorney David Lane said that on June 16, Steve Howards was walking his 7-year-old son to a piano practice, when he saw Cheney surrounded by a group of people in an outdoor mall area, shaking hands and posing for pictures with several people. According to the lawsuit filed at U.S. District Court in Denver, Howards and his son walked to about two-to-three feet from where Cheney was standing, and said to the vice president, "I think your policies in Iraq are reprehensible," or words to that effect, then walked on. Ten minutes later, according to Howards' lawsuit,...

Here's how the Los Angeles Times spun the story: "Teacher suspended for Bush remark." Wrong! Several other news stories in our local papers have been no better. Congratulations to Rocky Mountain News reporters who got it right: "The teacher, Jay Bennish, is on paid leave pending the outcome of an investigation into whether he violated a district policy requiring balanced viewpoints being presented in class." Bingo! If teachers were disciplined merely for criticizing President Bush, half of them would probably be out of work. Bennish is under scrutiny for violating his public trust as a teacher of callow young minds...

Earlier today Peter Boyles of KHOW 630am (5am to 9am mountain) interviewed American Indian Movement leader Vernon Bellecourt, then Churchill's attorney David Lane and finally Rhonda Kelly the sister of Churchill's former wife. Rhonda received a threatening letter last summer from Ward Churchill. Vern Bellecourt:http://www.startcolorado.com/iac/KHOW-AM/3-16-bellecourt.wmaChurchill's attorney David Lane:http://www.startcolorado.com/iac/KHOW-AM/3-16-peter-lane.wma Rhonda Kelly:http://www.startcolorado.com/iac/KHOW-AM/3-16-kelly.wma David Lane is supposedly a highly respected attorney, but as you will hear in this interview he seems to have adopted the strategy that as long as he doesn't know about it then it doesn't matter. He also refers to everyone providing evidence regarding Churchill's tendency for violence, fraud, plagairism,...

"Professor's" Mouthpiece Implies Gunny Is A Criminal David Lane, Ward Churchill's attorney, told Peter Boyles on Peter's show on 630 KHOW on 24 February, that Gunny Bob "advocates violence on a nightly basis" on the Gunny Bob Show on Newsradio 850 KOA (www.850koa.com/shows/newman.html). This came as news to the Gunny, who wonders why a lawyer, over the public airwaves, would accuse a highly respected journalist of such a thing, and then offer no evidence whatsoever of his charge. Is the stress and strain of cashing Ward Churchill's publicly funded checks getting to the infamous, leftist shill? And despite all the...