After a little more than a week of deliberating, the Colorado Court of Appeals on Thursday sided with Mile-Hi Skydiving over Citizens for Quiet Skies in an appeal of a lawsuit over Longmont airplane noise decided last year.
The Citizens for Quiet Skies group and some individual members living in Longmont and unincorporated Boulder County claim that Mile-Hi owner Frank Casares was being negligent and a nuisance by flying what they said were unusually loud planes over their homes.
In 2015, Boulder District Court Judge Judith LaBuda denied every claim brought by the plaintiffs and made a special appeal in the judgment asking all parties to move on from the matter.
Later that year, however, the plaintiffs and Citizens For Quiet Skies founder Kimberly Gibbs filed an appeal. Attorneys for both the plaintiffs and the defendant argued their side of the case before the Colorado Court of Appeals on Dec. 13.
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