On Jun. 23rd, the Colorado Supreme Court handed down its latest word on the economic loss rule (also called the “economic loss doctrine”), affirming a $215.2 million judgment against a contractor that concealed a known performance problem while negotiating a quarter-billion-dollar design-build agreement.

Expanding retail brands can boost traffic and revenue, but franchising, private equity, and international tenants create legal risks landlords should assess.

International police cooperation is based on trust that participating states will act in good faith and that shared information will not be misused. US asylum law rests on a different assumption: contact with an asylum seeker’s home government can create danger. When these frameworks intersect, as they do in cases involving alerts issued by INTERPOL, tensions arise that can expose asylum seekers and complicate adjudication, and which remain largely unaddressed in law or policy.