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Courts of Colorado

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ5178716 ↗
Source-derived summary

Courts of Colorado include:

State courts of Colorado

Colorado Supreme Court

Colorado Court of Appeals

Colorado District Courts (22 judicial districts)

Colorado County Courts

Federal courts located in Colorado

United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (headquartered in Denver, having jurisdiction over the United States District Courts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah, and Wyoming)

United States District Court for the District of Colorado

See also

Judiciary of Colorado

References

External links

National Center for State Courts – directory of state court websites.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 86-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Courts, Colorado and Open-knowledge providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Courts of Colorado” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.