Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Frederick R. Yarger ( William Allen , Kathleen Spalding , Stephanie Lindquist Scoville , Matthew D. Grove , Megan Paris Rundlet , and Jonathan P. Fero , Office of the Attorney General for the State of Colorado, and Daniel D. Domenico , Kittredge LLC, with him on the briefs), Office of the Attorney General for the State of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, for Defendant-Appellant.
David E. Skaggs ( Lino S. Lipinsky de Orlov , Dentons US LLP, Denver, Colorado, John A. Herrick , Geoffrey Williamson , Carrie E. Johnson , Sarah M. Clark , Michael F. Feeley , Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP, Denver, Colorado, Michael L. Bender , Perkins Coie, LLP, Denver, Colorado; Herbert Lawrence Fenster , Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, D.C., with him on the briefs), for the Plaintiffs-Appellees.
Richard A. Westfall , Hale Westfall, LLP, Denver, Colorado, and Karen R. Harned and Luke A. Wake , NFIB Small Business Legal Center, Washington, D.C., filed an amicus curiae brief for National Federation of Independent Business; Tabor Foundation; American Legislative Exchange Council; National Taxpayers Union; Americans for Tax Reform; Citizens in Charge; Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association; Citizens for Limited Taxation; Goldwater Institute; Freedom Center of Missouri; Cascade Policy Institute; Pelican Institute; Institute for Public Policy; Tax Foundation of Hawaii; Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty; Washington Policy Center on behalf of Defendant-Appellant.
Matthew J. Douglas , Holly E. Sterrett , Paul W. Rodney , and Nathaniel J. Hake , Arnold & Porter, LLP, Denver, Colorado, filed an amicus curiae brief for the Bell Policy Center and the Colorado Fiscal Institute on behalf of Plaintiffs-Appellees.
Ilya Shapiro , Cato Institute, Washington, D.C., filed an amicus curiae brief for Cato Institute on behalf of Defendant-Appellant.
Anthony J. Bruno , Milton A. Miller , and Jacquelynn K.M. Levien , Latham & Watkins, LLP, Los Angeles, California, and John C. Eastman , Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, Orange, California, filed an amicus curiae brief for the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence on behalf of Defendant-Appellant.
Andrew M. Low , Emily L. Droll , and John M. Bowlin , Davis Graham & Stubbs, LLP, Denver, Colorado, filed an amicus curiae brief for Colorado Association of School Executives and Colorado Association of School Boards on behalf of Plaintiffs-Appellees.
Harold A. Haddon and Laura G. Kastetter , Haddon Morgan and Foreman, P.C., Denver, Colorado, filed an amicus curiae brief for Colorado Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Colorado Nonprofit Association on behalf of Plaintiffs-Appellees.
Stephen G. Masciocchi and Maureen Reidy Witt , Holland & Hart, LLP, Denver, Colorado, and Greenwood Village, Colorado, filed an amicus curiae brief for the Colorado General Assembly on behalf of Plaintiffs-Appellees.
Catherine C. Engberg , Shute Mihaly & Weinberger, LLP, San Francisco, California, filed an amicus curiae brief for the Colorado Parent Teacher Association on behalf of Plaintiffs-Appellees.
Jeffrey W. McCoy and Steven J. Lechner , Mountain States Legal Foundation, Lakewood, Colorado, filed an amicus curiae brief for Colorado Union of Taxpayers Foundation, Andy McElhany , Bill Cadman , Bob Gardner , Bob Rankin , Brian DelGrosso , Catherine Roupe , Chris Holbert , Dan Nordberg , Dan Thurlow , David Balmer , Don Coram , Ellen Roberts , Frank McNulty , Gordon Klingenschmitt , J. Paul Brown , James Wilson , Janak Joshi , Jerry Sonnenberg , John Cooke , Jon Becker , Justin Everett , Kathleen Conti , Kent Lambert , Kevin Grantham , Kevin Lundberg , Kevin Priola , Kim Ransom , Laura Woods , Lang Sias , Larry Crowder , Lois Landfraf , Lori Saine , Mark Scheffel , Mike Kopp , Owen Hill , Patrick Neville , Paul Lundeen , Perry Buck , Polly Lawrence , Randy Baumgardner , Ray Scott , Scott Renfroe , Spencer Swalm , Stephen Humphrey , Ted Harvey Tim Dore , Tim Neville , Vicki Marble , Yeulin V. Willett , Beth Martinez Humenik , and JoAnn Windholz , on behalf of Defendant-Appellant.
David Kopel , Independence Institute, Denver, Colorado, filed an amicus curiae brief for Independence Institute on behalf of Defendant-Appellant.
Ken Paxton , Attorney General of Texas, Charles E. Roy , First Assistant Attorney General, Scott A. Keller , Solicitor General, J. Campbell Barker , Deputy Solicitor General, Autumn Hamit Patterson , Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General for the State of Texas, Austin, Texas, and Lawrence G. Wasden , Attorney General of Idaho, Boise, Idaho, Gregory F. Zoeller , Attorney General of Indiana, Indianapolis, Indiana, and Bill Schuette , Attorney General of Michigan, Lansing, Michigan, filed an amicus curiae brief for the State of Idaho, State of Indiana, State of Michigan, and State of Texas on behalf of Defendant-Appellant.
Joseph R. Guerra and Kathleen Mueller , Sidley Austin, LLP, Washington, D.C., filed an amicus curiae brief for The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities on behalf of Plaintiffs-Appellees.
D'Arcy W. Straub, Littleton, Colorado, filed an amicus curiae brief for D'Arcy W. Straub on behalf of Defendant-Appellant.
Melissa Hart , University of Colorado School of Law, Boulder, Colorado, filed an amicus curiae brief for Erwin Chemerinsky, Gene Nichol, Hans Linde, William Marshall, and William Wiecek on behalf of Plaintiffs-Appellees.
Before BRISCOE, SEYMOUR, and LUCERO, Circuit Judges.