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09-27-2004 03:53PM FROM-DOL NATURAL RESOURCES 3038663558 T-244 P.004/011 F-454 <br />? <br />community partic:ipation .role undex Colorado's Code of Judicial ' <br />Conduct, ' <br />Z appear vt:ry fxequently in public forums as a Justice of <br />this Court, and as vice-president of Lhe Colorado F'oundation for <br />Water Education: addressing 7-he history ot Colorado war-er law. <br />In the Colorado Public Radio program and the legal magazine <br />interview cited here as a basis for disqualification, I <br />addressed the scability and adaptability of Colorado water law, <br />a central featuee of my talks to law stiudenLS and citi«n yzoup.5 <br />and of many law review and magazine articles T have written'. <br />These writ.ings include the Citizen's Guide to Coloxado Water <br />Law, which I authored for the Colorado Foundation for Water <br />Education and ?,hich the Coloxado Public Radtio and legal magazine <br />interviewer3 had read in preparing for those interviews. <br />In addi-ticn to the Colorado Public Radio and legal magazine <br />interviews, thE motion for disqualification cites my <br />repr_esen-Cation of the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy <br />Districr- in Ciiy of Thornton v. City of Fort Collins, 830 P.2d <br />915 (Cclo. 199::)(holding that the City's apPr.opriation for a <br />boat chuLe wa3 valid). These three instances involviny public <br />statements T m,Lde on leqa1 issues, separately or togetrier, do <br />not constitute a basis for disqualification. <br />In Lai.rd i. 'I'atum, 409 U.S. 824, 8_38-39 (19")2) , JusLice <br />Rehnquist sumrrt3rized Lhe przvailing rule against