Robertson v. City and County of Denver

Lawrence Robertson, Sharon Deatherage, Jeffrey Hecht, and David Jewell, d/b/a Scotties Guns and Militaría, filed a declaratory judgment action to determine the validity of Denver Ordinance No. 669, codified at section 38-130 of the Denver Revised Municipal Code (ordinance). Subsequently, the attorney general intervened on behalf of the State of Colorado.1 The district court, in determining cross-motions for summary judgment, considered affidavits and other evidence and held the ordinance to be unconstitutional on a number of grounds. As a result of this ruling, the district court entered…