Colorado Politics: Members of the Colorado Supreme Court grappled on Tuesday with two competing principles: honoring public access to government records, on the one hand, while preventing litigants from deluging public bodies with open records requests at the same time they are suing them.

Previously, the state’s second-highest court ruled that plaintiffs are not forbidden from using the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) to obtain materials from government defendants in lieu of using the formal process for the discovery of evidence.

During oral arguments to the Supreme Court, some justices seemed reluctant to find that a litigant’s access to CORA should be shut off whenever they happen to be suing the government.

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