Colorado Department of Transportation v. Brown Group Retail, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a claim for declaratory relief based on injuries that lie in tort or could lie in tort must meet the requirements of the CGIA
• noting that “we have distinguished some statutorily created 12 duties, despite their general and non-contractual nature, on the basis of their broad policy rather than compensatory goals”
• noting that the CGIA “broadly encompasses all claims against a public entity arising from the 4 breach of a general duty of care”
• characterizing \lies in tort or could lie in tort\ as an \expansive statutory phrase\
• summarizing impact of Evans v. Bd. of Cty. Comm'rs , 174 Colo. 97 , 482 P.2d 968 , 972 (1971), Flournoy v. Sch. Dist. , 174 Colo. 110 , 482 P.2d 966 (1971), and Proffitt v. State , 174 Colo. 113 , 482 P.2d 965 (1971)
• “[T]he notion of a ‘tort’ is notoriously difficult to define with any degree of precision[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).