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State officials have signed off on a deal to have ski resort company Vail Corp. pay $275,000 to settle allegations of ecological damage caused by an accidental release of about 2 million gallons of water from the company's snowmaking system into a nearby creek in September 2021, the Office of the Colorado Attorney General announced Wednesday.

A Tenth Circuit panel concluded Thursday that a Colorado hospital probably fired a doctor for her allegedly unprofessional conduct rather than discrimination, noting an incident in which she told a patient the pain of inserting a catheter was his own fault and called him an "asshole" just outside his room.

Colorado Supreme Court justices repeatedly asked a taxi company's lawyer Tuesday why a jury should not have the chance to decide whether it was foreseeable that a cab passenger-turned-assailant would use the taxi to run over a man who tried to help the cab driver.

Colorado's federal courts are working through a caseload that is especially heavy for magistrate judges after President Joe Biden took the historic step of elevating two of them to district court positions, the state's most senior magistrate judge says.

A Denver physician group is suing Colorado's Department of Health Care Policy and Financing and the contractor that conducts its overpayment audits, alleging that the state's auditing process has wrongfully denied the group legitimate payments.

In a published opinion on Monday, a Tenth Circuit panel rejected a bid by two environmental groups to temporarily block a coal mine expansion in southwest Colorado, concluding that the groups have used the wrong legal process to challenge federal officials' actions.

A Colorado mental health clinic chain filed a lawsuit Monday in federal court alleging unnamed fraudsters hacked the company in 2020 and got the company CEO's personal information, which they then used to try and open financial accounts in the company's name earlier this year.

A Colorado appeals panel appeared skeptical Wednesday about the need to consider the circumstances of a 1990 deed exchange at the heart of the Communications Workers of America's fight over control of profits from the sale of a historic Colorado Springs retreat for union printers.

A company that rents oilfield equipment in Western states has accused a former "rising star" employee and his company in Colorado federal court of misappropriating trade secrets by leaving to work for a rival, using knowledge of his former employer's secret pricing structure.

Ball Aerospace Technologies Corp. must reconstruct a data portal it decommissioned that was part of an exclusive deal involving methane sensors with a former business partner now suing Ball for breach of contract, a Colorado state judge has ruled.