Colorado's appellate courts published three HOA opinions in twenty months
Colorado's appellate courts published three HOA opinions in twenty months
2026-09-10 · Colorado · Courts
Between January 2025 and September 2026, the Colorado Court of Appeals published three opinions with a community association as a named party. The Colorado Supreme Court did not construe CCIOA once. Every other Colorado association appeal in that period was decided in an unpublished opinion — not citable as precedent, and not publicly available to read.1
That absence is the story, and it has a practical consequence: a Colorado board looking for appellate authority on the questions it actually faces will not find it.
What the census covered
All 88 weekly Court of Appeals case-announcement sheets from January 2, 2025 to September 3, 2026, and all 186 published-opinion PDFs linked from them, full text searched. All 72 Supreme Court announcement sheets from January 13, 2025 to September 8, 2026 — opinions, certiorari grants, denials and original proceedings. And all 384 Colorado-origin Tenth Circuit dispositions issued in the window.
The published association opinions, in full
2025 COA 35, Miller v. Bullock (March 27, 2025) — an HOA that lost by default could not obtain interlocutory review.
2025 COA 37, the Court of Appeals decision in the Twin Shores premises-liability case, now before the Supreme Court on certiorari.
2026 COA 58, Elk Creek Ranch Owners Association (July 9, 2026) — fee-award finality, contractual fee-shifting and lodestar methodology.
Plus 2026 COA 57, where a property owners' association was a nominal defendant in a mineral-rights and quiet-title appeal that turned on procedural finality.
At the Supreme Court: one decision involving a community association — 2026 CO 54, the Roxborough Park condemnation-discovery case — and one certiorari grant, in Twin Shores.
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Related Colorado HOA Topics
- Court of Appeals case announcements, Colorado Judicial Branch — the weekly sheets swept for this census ↩
- Supreme Court case announcements, Colorado Judicial Branch ↩
- Kritzer v. Qwest Corp., 2025 COA 54 (Colo. App. May 29, 2025) — the opinion expressly declining to reach the CDARA statute of repose ↩
- Dorotik v. Town of Breckenridge, 2026 COA 20 (Colo. App. Mar. 26, 2026) — the only published short-term rental decision, on municipal fees and TABOR ↩
- Colorado Court of Appeals case announcement sheet, May 28, 2026 — an example of an unpublished association reversal ↩
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