# Lamm v. Barber

> Supreme Court of Colorado · March 4, 1977 · 192 Colo. 511

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9559550

## Case

- **Full name:** Governor Richard Lamm, State Treasurer Sam Brown, Secretary of State Mary Estill Buchanan, Attorney General J. D. MacFarlane, and State Auditor John Proctor, Acting as the State Board of Equalization v. Ray Barber, Clear Creek County Assessor, Eugene Drinkhouse, Garfield County Assessor, and Fred Fernandez, Las Animas County Assessor
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Colorado
- **Decided:** March 4, 1977
- **Citations:** 192 Colo. 511; 565 P.2d 538; 1977 Colo. LEXIS 788
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Groves
- **Judges:** Carrigan, Groves
- **Cited by:** 60 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Red flag:** Overruled on other grounds by Board of County Commissioners v. Fifty-First General Assembly, 198 Colo. 302 (1979).
- Negative treatments: 2
- Distinguished by: 0
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9559550

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- explaining that an amendment "must be read, not in a vacuum, but in the context of the entire preexisting statutory ... scheme"

## Opinion text

MR. JUSTICE GROVES
specially concurring:
I concur with the opinion except that I am not at this time prepared to concur in the part thereof relating to standing.

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