Legal Matters: Direct Marketers Take Colorado to the Supreme Court

The DMA lawsuit objects to the notice and reporting obligations imposed on out-of-state retailers. Because the DMA believed that the appellate court ruling was incorrect, as well as being in conflict with the jurisdictional standard adopted by United States Courts of Appeal in other parts of the country, it filed a petition for a writ of certiorari asking the United States Supreme Court to review the decision. On July 1, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the DMA's petition, and the case will be scheduled for oral argument beginning in December of this year. The Supreme Court accepts review in only about 70 out of 7,000 petitions filed each year (a mere 1 percent).