Blume v. Inspirato lawsuit: what the federal docket shows

What the Blume v. Inspirato lawsuit is

Blume v. Inspirato is a private lawsuit by five individuals against two companies, and it is not a class action. It was filed in Denver District Court as case 2020CV31292. On 26 June 2020 the defendants, Inspirato LLC and Best of 52, LLC, removed it to the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, where it received the number 1:20-cv-01894. Less than four weeks later, on 22 July 2020, the federal court sent it back. The docket classifies the case as a personal injury claim brought on diversity grounds, with a jury demand by the plaintiffs.

The complaint itself is in the court file as docket entry 4. Because the matter concerns private individuals and was not a class case, this page records the procedure and leaves the narrative of the claims to the pleading.

The parties as the docket lists them

The caption names Joi Blume first, and four other plaintiffs appear on the docket. The defendants are Inspirato LLC and Best of 52, LLC, which an affidavit of service describes as doing business as Inspirato. The defendants appeared through attorney James Andrew Johnson of Johnson Bakken Greely Smith, who filed the notice of removal and the later responses. No plaintiffs' attorney appears among the entries retrieved.

Why a federal judge sent it back

A defendant who is sued in state court may try to move the case to federal court, but only if the federal court has jurisdiction. On 30 June 2020 Magistrate Judge Scott T. Varholak issued an order to show cause, asking the defendants why the case should not be remanded for lack of subject matter jurisdiction (entry 9). The defendants answered on 10 July 2020 and conceded that the diversity requirements of the federal statutes were not satisfied (entry 12). A minute order of the same day sent the matter to a district judge to consider remand.

The case was reassigned briefly to Judge Lewis T. Babcock, who returned it on 15 July to Judge William J. Martinez. On 22 July 2020 Judge Martinez made the show-cause order absolute and remanded the case to Denver District Court (entry 16). The clerk certified service of the remand order that day (entry 17).

What happened afterwards

The federal docket has no entry after 22 July 2020. State court records are largely outside the CourtListener collection, so the progress of case 2020CV31292 in Denver was not confirmed. The present status of the underlying claims is therefore unknown from the sources retrieved, and the federal termination date of 22 July 2020 says nothing about how the state case ended.

Not to be confused with the Inspirato securities case

A separate lawsuit against the same company is a proposed securities class action, Bouzaglo v. Inspirato Incorporated, No. 1:23-cv-00438, filed in the same federal court on 16 February 2023 and naming Inspirato Incorporated, Brent Handler and R. Webster Neighbor. Judge Regina M. Rodriguez adopted a magistrate judge's recommendation and granted the defendants' motion to dismiss on 29 September 2025, and final judgment was entered that day (entries 76 and 77). The two cases share only a defendant's brand name. For how a case of that kind is structured, see the explainer on a class action lawsuit, and for other investor cases compare the Eargo litigation.