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Here are links to other web sites you may find useful and informative.

Agencies
Board of Medical Examiners - License Information & Complaint Form
The Board of Medical Examiners regulates M.D.'s, D.O.'s and physicians assistants. The Board's web site will let you search to find the status of your doctor's license. Also, if you need to, you can find out how to file a complaint with the Board.
Colorado Dental Board - License Information & Complaint Form
The Dental Board regulates dentists and dental hygenists. This site has information about your dentist and whether he or she has had disciplinary action against them. There is also a complaint form and important phone numbers.
Colorado Healthcare Facilities - database
Obtain information about particular Colorado healthcare facilities from the state agency which licenses them.
Colorado Insurance Commisioner - Complaint Form
You may submit a formal complaint to the insurance commisioner's office by using this form. Consumers ask that office questions about important insurance issues. Coloradans needing assistance with insurance issues may call 303-894-7490 (Denver-metro area) and 1-800-930-3745 in other parts of the state.
El Paso County, Colorado - Land Ownership Records
Here you may search the El Paso County Assessor's database for information about who owns a particular property, etc.
License Information for Professions and Occupations
This site offers license data about individuals in the following professions and occupations: Accountants; Acupuncturists; Chiropractors; Dentists; Medical Doctors, D.O.'s, Nurses and Nurse Aides; Nursing Home Administrators; Pharmacists; Physical Therapists; Podiatrists; Psychologists & Psychotherapists; and others.

Courts
Colorado Court of Appeals - Opinions
The Colorado Court of Appeals is the court where everyone may take their court case if they are disatisfied with the result in the trial court. The only exception being a case where there is no good faith basis for claiming the trial court made an error. This link goes to the weekly listing of cases decided by the Court of Appeals. Decisions are announced and available on this site weekly on Thursdays. Not all the opinions issued by this court are published. Some are "unpublished" and merely mentioned as having been decided and what the result was.
Colorado Supreme Court - Opinions
This is the official site of the Colorado Supreme Court. On Mondays, the Court announces its opinions and posts them here. Unlike the Court of Appeals, the Colorado Supreme Court does not hear every case that asks to be heard. Only between 10 and 15% of requests for hearing are granted.
El Paso County Courts (Colorado Springs area) - District, County, Small Claims
The official web site of the local Colorado Springs - El Paso County courts. Here you will find information about jury service, small claims cases, landlord tenant cases, etc.
Teller County Courts - District, County, Small Claims
The official web site of the Teller County (Cripple Creek, Woodland Park, etc.) Here you will find information about jury service, small claims cases, landlord tenant cases, etc.

Criminal Law
Colorado State Public Defender
A resource for someone has been charged with a crime but can not afford a criminal defense attorney.

Legal Directory - Rating Service
Martindale-Hubbell Legal Directory
The legal directory that lawyers have relied upon for decades. Available online.

Organizations
Association of Trial Lawyers of America
The Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) is a nationwide organization of trial attorneys who represent persons injured through the negligence, misconduct and wrongdoing of other individuals, corporations or the government.
Brain Injury Association of Colorado
An organization which strives to improve the quality of life for survivors of brain injury and their families, and to support programs that prevent brain injury.
Center for Responsive Politics - which politicians are getting the most money? and from whom?
The Center for Responsive Politics is a non-partisan, non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy. The Center conducts computer-based research on campaign finance issues for the news media, academics, activists, and the public at large. The Center’s work is aimed at creating a more educated voter, an involved citizenry, and a more responsive government.
Colorado Trial Lawyers Association
The Colorado Trial Lawyers Association is a state-wide organization of lawyers committed to public justice and enforcement of the rule law. CTLA members continually hone their court room skills through active education. The "Consumers Corner" section of the CTLA website has items of particular to interest to Coloradans.
Trial Lawyers for Public Justice
Trial Lawyers for Public Justice is a national public interest law firm dedicated to using trial lawyers' skills and resources to create a more just society. TLPJ fights for justice through precedent-setting and socially significant individual and class action litigation designed to enhance consumer and victims' rights, environmental protection and safety, civil rights and civil liberties, workers' rights, America's civil justice system, and the protection of the poor and powerless. It has special projects that battle unnecessary secrecy in the courts, mandatory arbitration abuse, federal preemption of injury victims' claims, and class action abuse.

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