An extensive and detailed guide to Colorado's appellate process, Colorado Appellate Law and Practice includes:
- Practical advice on handling appeals
- An overview of the Colorado justice system
- Informed discussions on the statutes, rules, and cases that govern the appellate process
- Separate chapters on finality, the general requirement for judgments to be appealable, and exceptions to the requirement for finality
- Coverage of important subjects such as preserving issues for appeal and the role of postjudgment motions
- Extensive annotations on standards of review
- Tables of statutes, rules, and cases
Topics include:
- Selection of judges
- Appellate jurisdiction
- Posttrial motions
- Stay of judgment
- Municipal and county court appeals
- Appeals from administrative agencies
- Procedure in district court appeals
- Notice of appeal, motions practice
- Supreme Court original proceedings
- Petitions for Certiorari
- Error and standards of review
- Appellate briefs
- Oral argument
- Appellate courts' opinion
- Petition for rehearing
- Costs, sanctions, fees, and interest