Colorado Supreme Court rejects Amendment 87 challenge

What the court decided

The Colorado Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit seeking to stop Amendment 87. The challengers therefore did not obtain the result they requested: blocking the amendment through this court action.

The ruling concerns whether the lawsuit could halt Amendment 87. It should not be read as a candidate result or as the outcome of a political race. No candidate or candidate policy position is directly connected to the court action.

The decision establishes that this lawsuit did not stop Amendment 87; it does not turn the court into a supporter or opponent of the amendment.

What the decision changes

Amendment 87 remains unblocked by this lawsuit following the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision. The immediate legal significance is narrow: the challengers asked the court to stop the amendment, and the court declined to do so.

The next steps depend on the formal court record and any later action in the case. The text of the ruling is the key document for the court’s legal reasoning, the issues it considered and the procedural basis for rejecting the lawsuit.

Voters following the dispute should distinguish between the court’s role and the policy debate over Amendment 87. The court resolved the request placed before it in this lawsuit. Questions about the amendment’s policy effects are separate from the ruling that rejected the effort to stop it.