Johnson v. District Court In & For the County of Jefferson

NEIGHBORS, Justice.

This is an original proceeding filed pursuant to C.A.R. 21 by the petitioner, Carl Johnson. We issued a rule to show cause why the respondent judge should not disqualify himself and why he should not grant a change of venue. We now make the rule absolute, in part, and discharge it, in part.

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In April 1983, we vacated the district court’s judgment denying the petitioner’s request for a preliminary injunction and remanded the case to the trial court for further proceedings to determine whether the Jefferson County Board of Health’s (Board) threats to discharge him, which…