Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The XXIInd volume of the Yearbook of Private International Law (2020/2021) has been released. The most recent innovations on classical themes of private international law (torts, muslim divorces, the degree of deference by state courts to international commercial arbitral awards, etc.) Thanks to Ilaria Pretelli for the tip-off. .

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At the Lectern

MARCH 7, 2022

It disapproves 2017 and 2020 Third District decisions (the latter is a grant-and hold for today’s case (see here )), a 2016 Sixth District decision, and the 2014 First District, Division Three decision in which Justice Jenkins had concurred. Besides the disapproved 2020 Third District case, there are five other Sheen grant-and-holds.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Although the Tenth Circuit vacated an exception to the Colorado Roadless Rule in March 2020, the district court concluded that it could not enjoin the coal companies’ activities because all challenges to the mining lease modifications had been resolved in the federal defendants’ favor. On October 27, 2020, the D.C. Chernaik v.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

It conducted a debt swap in which investors exchanged unsecured PDVSA bonds for new ones due in 2020. To sweeten the deal, the PDVSA 2020s were backed by collateral in the form of a 50.1% The PDVSA 2020 bonds are in default. The story of the PDVSA 2020 bonds is a common one in government debt markets. Times have changed.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. However, my students and I often discuss the remarkably wide range of torts that comes with All Hallow’s Eve.

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The Estrin Report

MAY 19, 2020

The launch comes at a critical time as the COVID-19 global pandemic adds pressure with personal injury, med/mal, products liability, mass tort, healthcare, workers comp cases and insurance claims on the rise.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. A tort action for intentional infliction of emotional distress is likely to fail. The next scary moment is likely to be in the form of a torts complaint.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 12, 2021

The third issue of the Journal of Private International Law for 2020 features the following articles: M Teo, “Public law adjudication, international uniformity and the foreign act of state doctrine” Should courts, when applying foreign law, assess the validity or legality of foreign legislative or executive acts therein?

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 23, 2023

6 protest over the 2020 presidential election. That should have been the end of a nice story. However, Roice later shared a photo on Instagram of herself at the Washington Monument, participating in the Jan. The photo did not show her rioting on Capitol Hill, and she insists she did not join in any wrongdoing.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 25, 2021

Two Georgia election workers filed a complaint Thursday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia against Rudy Giuliani and One America News Network (“OAN”) for promoting claims that they engaged in election fraud during the vote-counting process in the state of Georgia during the 2020 presidential election.

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Day on Torts

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

31, 2022), patient was hospitalized at defendant hospital from August 7-24, 2020. When patient was discharged on August 24, 2020, he was told to follow up with his primary care physician, but on September 3, patient was taken to a wound treatment center. M2022-00476-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 16545403 (Tenn. internal citation omitted).

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Claiming a tort of misuse of private information, ZXC sought damages and injunctive relief against Bloomberg. Bloomberg’s appeal was dismissed by the Court of Appeal in 2020, but the Supreme Court agreed later that year to hear the matter. In 2019, the trial judge ruled in his favor and awarded damages of £25,000.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The district court scheduled a hearing for April 16, 2020 to consider the defendants’ motion to dismiss or transfer those cases. 4, 2020); California v. United States , No. 18-36082 (9th Cir. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. Union of Concerned Scientists v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration , Nos. 19-1230 et al. Chao , No.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Gaige Grosskreutz who was shot in the arm by Kyle Rittenhouse during the Kenosha riots in 2020 is now suing him as well as Wisconsin police and officials. YouTube screengrab Just when you thought that the Kyle Rittenhouse case was over. it is back.

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JURIST

JANUARY 5, 2021

It passed the Senate in December 2019 and an amended version passed the House of Representatives in December 2020. The new law will no longer require an individual to retreat from any place where she is lawfully permitted to be. The bill was introduced in the Senate in July 2019, one month prior to the August 2019 Dayton shooting.

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 31, 2022

25, 2022), plaintiff filed multiple tort claims against multiple defendants, including libel claims against certain defendants based on their social media statements related to the death of a dog who died while in the care of plaintiff’s dog training business. quoting Nandigam ). Click on the link to see the book’s Table of Contents.

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Day on Torts

MARCH 24, 2022

Plaintiff filed this products liability suit in November 2020, asserting that defendant, who manufactured, marketed, and sold the original replacement device, “actively and intentionally misled the public, medical community, health care providers, and patients into believing these products were safe and effective.” . §

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JURIST

JULY 8, 2023

It was a costly failure of public administration, in both human and economic terms The report stated, “elements of the tort of misfeasance in public office appear to exist.” The scheme ended in 2020 after 470,000 wrongful debts had been issued. In essence, people were traumatised on the off-chance they might owe money.

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Day on Torts

AUGUST 13, 2021

The Tennessee Supreme Court has agreed to accept review of a comparative fault issue concerning the tort of negligent misrepresentation. 2020-00511-SC-R11-CV. The case is Pryority Partnership v. AMT Properties, LLC , No. Here is a copy of the court of appeals opinion in the case , decided on March 10, 2021. Continue reading.

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LawSites

AUGUST 9, 2022

But in approving the resolution today, the ABA added an endorsement of a resolution it adopted in 2020 that was designed to encourage state efforts at innovation. The amendment added today says: Further Resolved and recognizing the importance to the profession and public of the core values embodied in Model Rule of Professional Conduct 5.4

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Day on Torts

MAY 18, 2022

This suit, however, was not filed until December 2020, more than three years after plaintiff first became aware of the mold. Note: Chapter 65, Section 10 of Day on Torts: Leading Cases in Tennessee Tort Law has been updated to include this decision. Click on the link to see the book’s Table of Contents.

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Day on Torts

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Tennessee Justice Programs has released it Fall 2020 on-demand video seminar CLE programs. I speak about torts and comparative fault (2 hours general credit) and the law of jury selection (1 hour general credit). Recent Decisions (2020) – Procedure, Employment, Evidence, Family Law (Part 1). (1 Upping Your Evidence IQ.

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At the Lectern

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Student Writing Competition. › 2021 Writing Competition Virtual Roundtable (see here ). › Surveying the Golden State (1850–2020): Vagrancy, Racial Exclusion, Sit-Lie, and the Right to Exist in Public by Kayley Berger. › Getting to Tarasoff : A Gender-Based History of Tort Law Doctrine by Brook Tylka.

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At the Lectern

AUGUST 20, 2021

Kayley Berger, a JD-MBA candidate at UC Irvine, took first place with “Surveying the Golden State (April 1850-June 2020): Vagrancy, Racial Exclusion, Sit-Lie, and the Right to Exist in Public.”.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Angela Kogan, the owner of Perfection Plastic Surgery & MedSpa, will now have to go to trial to defend the use of the images on social media in an interesting case on the “right to publicity” in torts. ” While visiting Sunny Isles Beach on February 1, 2020, Jackson was approached by Kogan for a selfie.

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Day on Torts

MARCH 4, 2022

Note: Chapter 30, Section 1 and Chapter 73, Section 6 of Day on Torts: Leading Cases in Tennessee Tort Law has been updated to include this decision. Day on Torts: Leading Cases in Tennessee Tort Law contains summaries of leading cases on over 500 topics and citations to more than 1500 additional cases.

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Day on Torts

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The Court noted that this exact issue had been addressed in a 2020 Court of Appeals case, where the Court stated: “The law in Tennessee is well-established on this issue, and it is not the role of this Court to depart from it.” internal citation omitted). months after oral arguments in this case.

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C|M|LAW Library

JULY 21, 2021

79 (2020)) “Judges cite slavery to explicate the law of contracts, property, evidence, civil procedure, criminal procedure, statutory interpretation, torts, and many other fields. The project provides a database of slave cases and the modern cases that continue to cite them as precedent.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It takes tort claims, especially in the field of products-liability, as an example and considers which system has the most exorbitant rules. It suggests explanations for the differences found.

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Day on Torts

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Tennessee Justice Programs has released it Fall 2020 on-demand video seminar CLE programs. I speak about torts and comparative fault (2 hours general credit) and the law of jury selection (1 hour general credit). Recent Decisions (2020) – Procedure, Employment, Evidence, Family Law (Part 1). (1 Upping Your Evidence IQ.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

In doing so, the article focuses on the relevant case-law (both national and of the CJEU), as well as on Directive (EU) 2020/1828 on consumers’ representative actions, which provides a number of propositions that can be applied also in the context of climate change litigation.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 28, 2021

Article 4 of Rome II applies to general torts/delicts such as personal injury cases. Where it is clear from all the circumstances of the case that the tort/delict is manifestly more closely connected with a country other than that indicated in paragraphs 1 or 2, the law of that other country shall apply.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 24, 2021

As a torts professor, it has been a bonanza for my students to see different issues raised in such cases involving public officials and public figures. The filings raise some interesting questions for tort actions between two public figures. See, e.g., here and here and here and here and here and here and here ).

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Day on Torts

JANUARY 15, 2022

In the year ending June 30, 2020 (the last period for which information is publicly available) the High Court was asked to accept review in 569 cases. Seven of the civil cases are tort cases. There is no cost to access this resource that is designed to keep you on top of changes in Tennessee tort law.

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Intelligize Blog

APRIL 27, 2023

The news didn’t get any better in March, when the number of bankruptcies for that month reached the highest point since near the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in July 2020. Coming off what S&P described as “a historically slow year in 2022,” the first two months of 2023 saw 111 corporations file bankruptcy petitions.

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Day on Torts

JUNE 20, 2022

Further, dismissal of plaintiffs’ claim for negligent infliction of emotional distress based on the entities disclosing plaintiffs’ names to the media was also reversed, as the Court concluded that defendants did have a duty to plaintiffs and the act of releasing plaintiffs’ names was sufficiently outrageous to sustain the tort claim.

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At the Lectern

MAY 12, 2021

Like all calendars since April 2020 , and for the foreseeable future, June’s arguments will be remote and based in San Francisco. (See The court granted review in February 2020. The court granted review in September 2020. Review was granted in January 2020. The Supreme Court today announced a seven-case June calendar.

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