The Colorado courts have again ordered a cakeshop owner in Colorado to stop discriminating against the LGBTQ community. In 2017, a transgender woman tried to order a pink birthday cake with blue icing from a bakery to celebrate her upcoming birthday. The bakery agreed to make the cake until it discovered that the customer was […]
Greisen Medlock In the News
Paula Greisen filed a lawsuit on behalf of a mother and her daughters after the family learned the mother’s fertility doctor – Paul Jones of Women’s Healthcare of Colorado in Grand Junction – had performed artificial inseminations on the mother using his own sperm. Jones had told the mother that the donor would be an […]
The Colorado Attorney General found that a pattern and practice of racist police at the Aurora Police Department. After a Court orders the police department to stop its illegal practices, the new Chief of Police Vanessa Wilson vows to clean up the department. Chief Wilson then fires police officers who made racist comments, ridiculed the […]
An employer hired a known sexual predator and promoted him to Head of HR, IT and Finance, giving him unrestricted access to the bathroom, changing areas and workplaces of employees for over a decade. Police first learned that a former female employee had hidden cameras installed in her home by the Head of HR for […]
Greisen Medlock lawyers represented men imprisoned at a geriatric Texas prison who were not being protected from COVID-19. Twenty men died at the prison, before a court found the prisoners’ lawsuit saved “countless lives.” ‘Tinderbox waiting for the spark’: WFAA Dallas investigation shows how COVID-19 spread through Texas prisons
Across the county, thousands of transgender women are housed in male prison where they are subjected to rape and sex trafficking by male inmates. These women, most of whom have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria and receive hormone treatment, are denied the basic protections and housing provided to the cisgender community, and leave in daily […]
PERSISTENT AS HELL Paula Greisen isn’t going to wait around for someone else to enact change Published in 2019 Colorado Super Lawyers magazine By Joel Warner on March 28, 2019 Paula Greisen sits in the gallery of a federal courtroom in downtown Denver, legs crossed and hands splayed out on the wooden bench on either side of her, radiating impatient […]
Greisen Medlock lawyers won an injunction requiring the Texas prison system to move vulnerable inmates from a geriatric prison to air-conditioned locations. After a 9-day hearing, Judge Keith Ellison ordered the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to move elderly and disabled prisoners out of the notorious Pack Unit, where indoor heat indexes regularly exceeded 110 […]