Above The Law
MARCH 28, 2022
The post Will Smith Writes Every ‘Cool’ Tort Professor’s Final Exam Question At The Oscars appeared first on Above the Law. I betchu Chris Rock won't do it again.
Day on Torts
MAY 24, 2022
Where the gravamen of plaintiff’s complaint was his tort claim for defamation seeking unliquidated damages, the chancery court did not have subject matter jurisdiction and the case should have been transferred to circuit court. In Lowery v. Redmond , No. W2021-00611-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. internal citations and quotations omitted).
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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. Florida codified the common law tort for misappropriation of name or likeness.
Intelligize Blog
APRIL 27, 2023
On top of the growth of ecommerce and home-based entertainment options, the pandemic struck the sector particularly hard. Essentially, the Texas Two-Step refers to a legal maneuver in which a parent company transfers its tort liabilities to a spin-off entity that remains under the parent company’s control.
Conflict of Laws
MAY 3, 2024
Anyone who had the privilege of attending lectures of his will remember his profound and often surprising and unconventional views, paths and turns through the subject matter, often combined with a subtle and entertaining irony. Erik Jayme was born in Montréal, as the son of a German Huguenot of French origin and a Norwegian.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 21, 2021
United States that the Federal Tort Claims Act, through which Congress generally waived the federal government’s sovereign immunity from tort liability, does not extend to service-members’ injuries that “arise out of or are in the course of activity incident” to a person’s active duty service in the military. United States , 20-559.
JonathanTurley
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. Dirty World Entertainment. Specifically, § 230 precludes courts from entertaining claims that would place a computer service provider in a publisher’s role. America Online, Inc.,
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