The Law Office of Ian T Hicks LLC

08/01/2022

We are no longer a country of give-and-take.

05/22/2020

Class Action Settlement Approved! After nearly three years, many hundreds of hours of effort, and with the professionalism of all parties, their counsel, and our fantastic class administrator, AND most importantly Carrie and Keely, my patient bosses, we’ve gotten to the finish line! This was a complex, nationwide e-commerce case involving several thousand plaintiffs, dozens of parties, and numerous adversary proceedings in Kentucky. Truly outstanding work everyone, hopefully the first of many!

05/08/2020

Ginsburg’s latest is a fantastic reiteration of common sense regarding the way our legal system should function:

In our adversarial system of adjudication, we follow the principle of party presentation. As this Court stated in Greenlaw v. United States, 554 U. S. 237 (2008), “in both civil and criminal cases, in the first instance and on appeal . . . , we rely on the parties to frame the issues for decision and assign to courts the role of neutral arbiter of matters the parties present.” Id., at 243.

But as a general rule, our system “is designed around the premise that [parties represented by competent counsel] know what is best for them, and are responsible for advancing the facts and argument entitling them to relief.” Id., at 386 (Scalia, J., concurring in part and concurring in judgment).

In short: “[C]ourts are essentially passive instruments of government.” United States v. Samuels, 808 F. 2d 1298, 1301 (CA8 1987) (Arnold, J., concurring in denial of reh’g en banc)). They “do not, or should not, sally forth each day looking for wrongs to right. [They] wait for cases to come to [them], and when [cases arise, courts] normally decide only what is presented.”

UNITED STATES v. SINENENG-SMITH

04/04/2020

Nuff said

03/31/2020

We are thrilled to announce that after a week of emergency hearings, motions, and two television appearances, we got the City of Denver to adopt the State of Colorado stay at home order in full, such that fi****ms dealers are now “essential” businesses. The fact that Los Angeles, New Jersey, and many other jurisdictions have rescinded similar orders against lawful gun dealers is a clear recognition of their illegality. This makes all Constitutional rights safer, and we are likewise pleased to see restrictions on abortion clinics (whether we agree or not with that side of the aisle is irrelevant a right is a right, tyranny is tyranny) reversed by federal courts. COVID-19 is not an excuse to irrational infringements on our fundamental rights.

03/26/2020

It’s time to talk people. We filed for an emergency injunction yesterday on behalf of a gun store which had 100 scared first time gun buyers with their purchases stuck in a five day background check purgatory when Denver issued its stay at home order. We filed again today on behalf of those gun owners, not just the gun store.

Many don’t like the Second Amendment, but a constitutional right is a constitutional right. What if Denver shut down abortion clinics but kept foot doctors open? Next time it will be your favorite rights that are thrown in the heap.

Well, liquor stores and dispensaries are open, two hours after the mayor said they should be closed. That’s 1,000 stores spreading covid 19. There are law enforcement officers who can’t get their backup guns and doctors who can’t get their first gun because of what Denver did. Many. That’s crazy.

My clients do not have lobbyists to get the mayor to turn and change his mind. Now the governor issued a statewide stay at home order, and we will have about 8 hours notice of what is and is not permitted.

Why? Well, courts are closed at midnight when the text of the full order comes down. This should be scary, shocking, and offensive to any American. Not the fact of staying at home, but purposely giving us zero effective notice on the true details of something that’s been in the works for weeks. Unreal.

02/24/2020

Congratulations to the prosecutors and their team this was a difficult prosecution due to some of the circumstances and the age of the case.

Former Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein was found guilty by a Manhattan jury Monday of two of five charges relating to s*xual assaults and faces as many as 25 years in prison.

02/20/2020

Follow our class action:

Two parents of students at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic school have filed a lawsuit against the former pastor.

02/20/2020

Pleased we have reached national media in this important case:

A priest in Colorado was accused of mismanaging more the $2 million when he used to run a Catholic school in Denver, including draining $250,000 from a fund meant to help a widowed mother pay tuition for her four children after her husband died suddenly of cancer.

02/19/2020

We appreciate more and more of the local media picking up on this egregious story that is the basis for our class action lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Denver.

Two parents of students at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic school have filed a lawsuit against the former pastor.

02/18/2020

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/colorado-pastor-accused-of-raiding-fund-for-widowed-teachers-children-mismanaging-millions

A pastor who once ran a Catholic school in Denver is now at the center of a lawsuit, which claims he is responsible for mismanaging more than $2 million in school funds.

08/03/2019

National News. Thanks everyone for helping spread the word that discrimination may happen but will NOT be tolerated!

A new lawsuit alleges racial discrimination at a popular barbershop in Denver. According to the suit filed in Denver district court, the Floyd's 99 location on Broadway in Denver discriminated against Darcel Harris simply because he’s black and walks with a limp.