Rule 2.One Form of Action

Historically, a lawsuit had to fit into a particular pre-set form, an action "at law" or a suit "in equity," and each carried its own procedure. Rule 2 erases that split. Every civil dispute in Colorado now proceeds under one label, the civil action, regardless of whether the relief sought is the kind courts once called legal, like damages, or equitable, like an injunction.

For anyone filing or defending a case, the payoff is fewer procedural traps. There is no separate set of forms or filing rules to pick between depending on the type of remedy sought; the same rules of pleading, motion practice, and discovery apply across the board. The merger changes procedure, not the substantive remedies a court can award.