Lucchesi v. State

Opinion by

Judge CRISWELL.

Plaintiff, Rudolph A. Lucchesi, appeals from the judgment dismissing all of the claims asserted by him against all of the defendants. . Because we conclude that plaintiff’s complaint asserted proper claims under state law against certain of the defendants and that the court abused its discretion in refusing plaintiff’s request to amend his complaint to assert federal claims under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1988 (1982) against some of them, we affirm in part and reverse in part.

Plaintiff’s pro se complaint alleged that two series of Colorado taxing statutes, one enacted in…