Split 10th Circuit:  Earlier Homeless Sweep Class Settlement Impacts New Case

Mealey's (May 5, 2022, 9:26 AM EDT) -- DENVER — A “broad release” in a 2019 class settlement in a lawsuit over Denver homeless sweeps bars an advocacy group and several individuals from bringing a new procedural due process claim against the city and city officials in a putative class complaint, a divided 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled May 3, finding that the District Court erred when it did not consider sua sponte the preclusive effect of that earlier agreement....