Heidi C. Potter

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Practice Areas

Litigation

Public Entity

Real Estate

Experience

Heidi Potter's practice focuses on civil appeals and litigation. She represents a variety of public and private entities and individuals in appeals to the Colorado Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court of Colorado and the federal Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. Heidi also does trial work as well as transactional work, with an emphasis in the areas of local government and land use development.

Heidi (formerly Heidi Fletemeyer) is a Boulder, Colorado native. She holds undergraduate degrees in English and journalism and worked for Downtown Boulder, Inc., a non-profit organization, before going to law school. During law school, Heidi worked as a law clerk in the City of Boulder's City Attorney's Office. While in law school she was also a Case Notes and Comments editor for the University of Colorado Law Review and was the vice president of her law school class.

Education

  • J.D., University of Colorado Law School, 1998
  • B.A. and B.S., University of Kansas, 1993

Admissions

  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit, 2000
  • U.S. District Court, District of Colorado, 1999
  • Colorado, 1998

Professional Associations

  • Colorado and Boulder County Bar Associations

Representative Published Cases

Federal Cases

  • Nichols v. Bd. of County Comm'rs, Colo., 506 F.3d 962 (10th Cir. 2007)

Colorado Supreme Court Cases

  • Burlington Ditch Reservoir and Land Co. v. Metro Wastewater Reclamation District, 256 P.3d 645 (Colo. 2011)
  • City of Englewood v. Burlington Ditch, Reservoir and Land Co., 235 P.3d 1061 (Colo. 2010)
  • Colorado Mining Ass'n v. Bd. of County Comm'rs, 199 P.3d 718 (Colo. 2009)
  • Washington County Bd. of Equalization v. Petron Development Co., 109 P.3d 145 (Colo. 2005)

Colorado Court of Appeals

  • Sensible Housing Co., Inc. v. Town of Minturn, ___ P.3d ___, 2010 WL 3259829 (Colo.App.), cert. granted, Town of Minturn v. Sensible Housing Co., Inc., 2011 WL 3301554 (Colo. Apr. 18, 2011) (No. 10SC670)
  • Colborne Corp. v. Weinstein, ___ P.3d ___, 2010 WL 185416 (Colo.App.), cert. granted, Weinstein v. Colborne Corp., 2010 WL 3213046 (Colo. Aug. 16, 2010)(No. 10SC143)
  • Sinclair Marketing, Inc. v. Commerce City, 226 P.3d 1239 (Colo.App. 2009)
  • Bd. of County Comm'rs v. Rohrbach, 226 P.3d 1184 (Colo.App. 2009)
  • New Design Constr. Co., Inc. v. Hamon Contractors, Inc., 215 P.3d 1172 (Colo.App. 2008)
  • Boulder Plaza Residential, LLC v. Summit Flooring, LLC, 198 P.3d 1217 (Colo.App. 2008)
  • Boulder Plaza Residential, LLC v. Summit Flooring, LLC, 198 P.3d 1213 (Colo.App. 2008)
  • Tricon Kent Co. v. Lafarge North America, Inc., 186 P.3d 155 (Colo.App. 2008)
  • Wolf Creek Ski Corp. v. Bd. of County Comm'rs of Mineral County, 170 P.3d 821 (Colo.App. 2007)
  • Masters v. Castrodale, 121 P.3d 362 (Colo.App. 2005)
  • Boone v. Bd. of County Comm'rs, 107 P.3d 1114 (Colo.App. 2004)
  • Whatley v. Summit County Bd. of County Comm'rs, 77 P.3d 793 (Colo.App. 2003)
  • Westec Const. Management Co. v. Postle Enterprises I, Inc., 68 P.3d 529 (Colo.App. 2002)

Publications

  • The First Amendment and Newspaper Vending Machine Regulation, 69 U.Colo.L.Rev. 223 (1998)

Pro Bono

  • First Presbyterian Church, Boulder, Colorado
  • The Gathering Church, Windsor, Colorado

Honors

  • Courtland H. Peterson Writing Award, 1998
  • Fordham Urban Law Journal Essay Contest Winner, 1998