Wanda James loses her suit against 7 CU regents who censured her

By Michael Karlik | The Denver Gazette

A federal judge decided on Friday that seven members of the University of Colorado’s governing body are immune from being sued over restrictions they placed on one member.

CU Regent Wanda James sued her fellow Board of Regents members over their decision to censure her last year and remove her committee assignments. But U.S. District Court Judge Philip A. Brimmer concluded the defendants were entitled to legislative immunity for their actions.

“Legislative immunity does not turn ‘on the official’s motive or intent,’ so it is irrelevant to the immunity analysis whether defendants actually censured and sanctioned Regent James due to violations of the duties of loyalty and/or care or if that was a pretext to censure and sanction Regent James for discriminatory reasons,” Brimmer wrote in a Nov. 6 order.

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