Judge: Marshall Fire debris litigant has no standing, no connection to Boulder County

BOULDER — Former Federal Emergency Management Agency director Michael Brown and his group Demanding Integrity in Government Spending does not live in Boulder, cannot be harmed by government decision-making in the county, and therefore has no standing to sue the county and its elected and appointed officials in an attempt force them rebid a contract for Marshall Fire debris cleanup, a Boulder County District Court judge determined Monday, dismissing the suit.

In a set of filings over the past several months, Brown accused county leadership of violating Colorado open meeting laws in the lead up to the decision to…