The Burnham Yard Community Action coalition announced this week the organizations and values it will bring to the table as it prepares to negotiate a community benefits agreement with the Denver Broncos. Th The coalition, made up of 16 organizations from the La Alma-Lincoln Park, Baker, and Sun Valley neighborhoods, will negotiate a legally binding CBA with the Broncos as the team moves forward on its planned stadium and entertainment district at the 58-acre Burnham Yard site

Last week, Governor Polis signed HB26-1020 into law. It passed both chambers unanimously. And it started with a phone call from a grandmother named Holly. Holly Bennet came to Stout Law after Boulder police found a crushed pill in her purse while she was hospitalized in septic shock. A $2 colorimetric field test said it was cocaine. It wasn't. It was her prescription medication. The Boulder DA's office offered diversion if she'd plead guilty. Holly refused. She knew she hadn'

Saturday night, 63,004 people packed Empower Field at Mile High to watch Denver Summit FC play their first home match. That's not a typo. Sixty-three thousand people showed up for women's soccer in Denver, shattering the previous NWSL attendance record of 40,091 set by Bay FC last year. The Washington Spirit held Summit to a 0-0 draw, but nobody left disappointed. The energy inside that stadium was something else entirely. We're proud to say Stout Law had a hand in making thi

On March 6, 2026, Noah Stout presented at the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute (RMLUI) Annual Conference at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. The panel, titled "Designing for Complete Neighborhoods: Municipal Roles in Community Benefit Agreements," brought together practitioners, academics, and law students to dig into how CBAs actually work — and what it takes to make them enforceable, equitable, and durable. The RMLUI conference is one of the premier land use