Denver, CO
Jury trial ordered in Petito lawsuit against Laundries, case may still be dismissed

VENICE, Fla. (WFLA) — A jury trial has been ordered and scheduled for the lawsuit filed by the mother and father of Gabby Petito in opposition to the mother and father of Brian Laundrie.
The swimsuit filed by Joe Petito and Nichole Schmidt final month claims Laundrie’s mother and father knew all alongside their son murdered 22-year-old Petito. The legal professional for Chris and Roberta Laundrie has already filed a movement to dismiss the lawsuit, calling it “baseless.”
The jury trial, if it does occur, received’t start anytime quickly.
In line with court docket paperwork obtained by Nexstar’s WFLA, a trial in entrance of a jury has been set for the week of Aug. 14, 2023, on the South County Courthouse in Venice, Florida. The trial’s time period window doesn’t start till subsequent 12 months resulting from scheduling within the Sarasota County court docket system.
The jury trial, barring dismissal, is anticipated to be open to the general public, which might draw worldwide media consideration. It might mark the primary time the Petito case reaches a courtroom and, whereas it will be a civil case as a substitute of a legal one, it might reveal the highly-anticipated proof Petito and Schmidt declare to need to assist their accusations that the Laundries have been instructed their son murdered Gabby Petito and sought to assist him flee the USA.
Whereas a date has been set, the case nonetheless faces the potential of being dismissed after the Laundries’ legal professional filed the movement for dismissal on the grounds their shoppers exercised their constitutional proper to chorus from talking and have “repeatedly relied on counsel to talk for them.”
Choose Hunter W. Carroll responded to the movement for the lawsuit’s dismissal by permitting the attorneys for Petito and Schmidt 20 days to file an amended grievance he says was obligatory resulting from a “perceived procedural deficiency” within the lawsuit.
“To be clear, the Courtroom in immediately’s order is just not passing on Defendants’ arguments that this lawsuit needs to be dismissed with prejudice,” Carroll wrote in his response. “The Courtroom’s intent is to handle the perceived procedural deficiency earlier than addressing the deserves of Defendants’ movement.”
Pat Reilly, the legal professional for Petito and Schmidt, says he’s getting ready to file the amended grievance to state “separate causes of motion on behalf of the Petito household in opposition to the Laundries.”
A ruling on whether or not the lawsuit might be dismissed is anticipated after Choose Carroll critiques the revisions. Steven Bertolino, the Laundries’ legal professional in New York, tells WFLA.com his shoppers will nonetheless search dismissal whatever the modifications made to the amended grievance.
“We’re ready for every thing,” Bertolino stated.
Reilly says he has a “excessive confidence stage” the lawsuit will attain a jury trial, if it doesn’t get settled out of court docket.
“The court docket must determine whether or not the movement to dismiss has any advantage, which I don’t imagine it does,” stated Reilly.
Petito and Schmidt are suing on the grounds of intentional infliction of emotional misery, alleging that the Laundries have been instructed by their son of Petito’s homicide “on or about” Aug. 28 and, moderately than telling them of Gabby’s demise, selected to stay silent. The lawsuit accuses the Laundrie household of appearing “with malice or nice indifference to the rights of” Petito’s household. Petito and Schmidt are looking for damages of at the very least $100,000, stating that they suffered ache and psychological anguish because of the “willfulness and maliciousness” of the Laundries.
The Laundries, by means of their authorized workforce, have repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.
The massive query that looms forward of a possible jury trial is the proof Petito and Schmidt declare to need to again up claims made within the lawsuit.
“They’ll have to attend and see,” stated Reilly when requested in regards to the proof. “If we didn’t imagine it was true, we wouldn’t have put them within the grievance.”

Denver, CO
The City of Denver planned to convert a former motel into a shelter. It's now on the market for $10

DENVER — A former motel that the City of Denver planned to use to shelter people experiencing homelessness is now on the market for $10.
The city purchased the former Stay Inn, located along Peoria Street just south of Interstate 70, for $9 million 18 months ago. Since then, the property has sat vacant.
“That building has been there for so long,” said Amy Beck, an advocate with Together Denver who has watched the property sit untouched.
In May 2021, then-Mayor Michael Hancock stood in front of the Stay Inn and announced the city’s plan to purchase the hotel and convert it into a shelter for the unhoused.
“This building here behind us represents hope,” Hancock said at the time.
Congresswoman Diana DeGette helped the city secure $2 million in federal funding to purchase the hotel.
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The city purchased the 96-unit motel for $9 million in 2023. Eighteen months later — and nearly four years since the original announcement — the hotel remains boarded up.
A spokesperson for Denver’s Department of Housing Stability (HOST) said a “necessary environmental review process which took longer than anticipated” led to the delays.
The City of Denver is putting the hotel back on the market for $10. However, there’s a reason behind the puzzling price tag.
The new owner would be responsible for transforming the building into “supportive housing” for those experiencing homelessness, according to the city.
Beck said she was shocked by the $10 list price but is all for it if it gets people off the street.
“At this point, I’m willing to take anything,” said Beck.
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The low price tag is also to offset the expected costs. The selected partner will need to fund all renovations and maintenance, which the city estimates will cost a minimum of $5 million.
Whoever the buyer ends up being, Beck hopes they know what they’re taking on.
“Whoever is managing the property, they need to be trauma-informed. They need to be willing to deal with people that have been through an immense amount of trauma,” Beck said.
The hope is to bring a buyer in front of the Denver City Council later this year. Beck said there’s no time to waste.
“Please, just get it up and running because we have so many families that could fill that building right now that are living on the street, in their cars, and we need that space immediately,” said Beck.
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Thousands of Denver-area King Soopers grocery store workers go on strike

Some 10,000 grocery store workers across the greater Denver area went on strike Thursday, claiming unfair and illegal negotiating practices by King Soopers while their union has been negotiating a new contract with the store chain.
Striking workers at 77 King Soopers stores in Denver and its suburbs, plus those in nearby Boulder and Louisville, Colorado, urged customers not to cross picket lines that began taking shape before dawn.
“Stand together. Stay strong,” United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local 7 President Kim Cordova wrote union members in a Monday letter announcing the strike.
UFCW Local 7 members voted by 96% last week to authorize the unfair labor practices strike.
King Soopers, a chain owned by Kroger, with 121 stores in Colorado and Wyoming, has been negotiating a new contract since October. The current contract expired in January.
The union alleges King Soopers illegally interrogated and surveilled union members, refused to provide information needed for contract negotiations, threatened union members with discipline for clothes and buttons expressing union support, and insisted on using $8 million in retiree health benefit funds to cover pay increases.
King Soopers denies all of the allegations, saying in a statement Friday it has acted in full compliance with the law and its collective bargaining obligations. Management has gone to “great lengths” to share all relevant data with the union, is committed to fair and lawful negotiations and disputes the union’s claim that it would “gut” the retiree health benefit funds.
“We want to be clear — the Union’s call for a strike is not about wages, health care, or pensions. It is based on allegations we believe lack merit,” King Soopers President Joe Kelley said in the statement.
The strike will force customers to pay higher prices at competing stores and stores with nonunion workers, Kelley added.
The strike follows several recent threatened and implemented labor union actions in the U.S. Last week, the Teamsters union and Costco reached a tentative contract agreement to avert a strike.
At Utah’s Park City ski resort, the biggest in the U.S., some 200 union ski patrollers ended an almost two-week strike Jan. 9 after reaching an agreement with resort owner Vail Resorts for higher pay including raises for senior ski patrollers.
Labor unions have secured other meaningful employer concessions in recent months following strikes by Boeing factory workers, dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports, video game performers, and hotel and casino workers on the Las Vegas Strip.
Denver, CO
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