The Colorado Supreme Court and Court of Appeals provide an educational outreach program for high schools which introduces students to the state’s appellate process. In the program, Courts in the Community, each court travels at least once a year to a different high school to hear oral arguments in two actual cases at each location. In spring 2019, the Colorado Supreme Court visited Westminster High School, and divisions of the Colorado Court of Appeals heard arguments at Trinidad High School and in Las Animas.

Courts in the Community began on Law Day in 1986. The program gives students hands-on experience in how the Colorado judicial system works and illustrates how disputes are resolved in a democratic society. These are not mock proceedings. They are oral arguments in actual cases from which official opinions are issued. Cases are chosen by specifically considering the interests of students.

Colorado Supreme Court
May 7, 2019 - Westminster High School
17SC116, The People of the State of Colorado In the Interest of R.D.
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16SC267, The People of the State of Colorado v. Randy Campbell
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Colorado Court of Appeals
April 16, 2019 - Trinidad High School
18CA0578, Amir Massihzadeh v. Colorado State Lottery Division
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16CA0728, The People of the State of Colorado v. Olivia Navarro-Gonzalez
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April 18, 2019 - Las Animas High School
18CA46, Robert T. Deland v. Richard Fox, M.D.
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16CA1940, The People of the State of Colorado v. Javarray Charles January
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