Jerry Kopel

KOPEL: SOME BIG DRUG, GENERIC FIRMS AGREE NOT TO COMPETE

1976: Driving a stake (we thought) through the brand-name-drug monopoly

6/20/2008

A Denver Post article recently gave me a headache by reminding me of the motto that kept me sane while serving 18 of my 22 years in the House as a member of the minority party: “The bad guys always win... eventually.”

KOPEL: DOWN WITH CAVEAT EMPTOR!

New law requires rental units to be habitable

6/13/2008

Finally! The common law doctrine from England, caveat emptor (Latin for “let the buyer beware”) is no longer the guiding principle in landlord-tenant residential contracts in Colorado.

KOPEL: REAPPORTIONMENT BY INEXPERIENCED LAWMAKERS?

Redistricting: What legislators don’t know about the past can hurt Colorado

4/11/2008

Reapportionment of the Legislature? Too early to discuss? Not really.
 
The 65-member House and the 35-member Senate will have new boundary lines in 2012, and there won’t be a large experienced group of legislators from 2001 to provide insight in 2011.
 

KOPEL: A MATTER OF LAW

Audits of the Colorado Lottery are needed to show compliance

3/17/2008

I can hardly wait.

By this time next year, I will have reported to you on the State Auditor’s 2009 report on the Colorado Lottery. 

This will be only the fourth time the auditor has made an extensive review of a 25-year-old lottery based on issues requested by the state Legislature. The other reviews were 1987, 1997 and 2003.