Appellate Court Allows Challenge to Campus Gun Ban in Colorado

The Colorado Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday that a lawsuit challenging the University of Colorado’s ban on concealed weapons can go forward, Law Week Colorado reported. A lower court had dismissed the suit in deference to the regents’ policy-making authority. But a unanimous three-judge panel of the appellate court reinstated it, saying the campus ban appeared to violate state weapons law. “Had the legislature intended to exempt universities, it knew how to do so,” the panel’s opinion states.