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Colorado Appeals Court Upholds Dismissal of Tweed Death Suit

6/23/2026

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Colorado Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of Shia Brooks’s suit over Gavin Tweed’s July 2022 death on May 28, 2026.
Judges Grant T. Sullivan, Terry Fox and W. Eric Kuhn wrote the opinion, applying the federal deliberate-indifference test.
The panel affirmed Judge Jill D. Dorancy’s dismissal, which relied on Supreme Court precedent barring state-constitutional damages.
It also rejected the unlawful-seizure claim, calling the July 17, 2022 arrest relatively unremarkable.

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Colorado Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of Shia Brooks’s suit over Gavin Tweed’s July 2022 death on May 28, 2026.
Judges Grant T. Sullivan, Terry Fox and W. Eric Kuhn wrote the opinion, applying the federal deliberate-indifference test.
The panel affirmed Judge Jill D. Dorancy’s dismissal, which relied on Supreme Court precedent barring state-constitutional damages.
It also rejected the unlawful-seizure claim, calling the July 17, 2022 arrest relatively unremarkable.