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Alex Jones’s Lawyers ‘Splain To Bankruptcy Judge That Putting The Kibosh On State Tort Claims Is His Real Job

Above The Law

The post Alex Jones’s Lawyers ‘Splain To Bankruptcy Judge That Putting The Kibosh On State Tort Claims Is His Real Job appeared first on Above the Law. Bold strategy, Cotton!

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Spooky Torts: Tykes and Trial Lawyers Gather for All Hallow’s Eve

JonathanTurley

It is no accident that the Irish not only brought Halloween to the United States (as part of the festival of Samhain) but flooded our state bars with Irish lawyers eager to bring lawsuits over Halloween mishaps. So without further ado, here are this year’s spookiest of torts. They were dressed as Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels.

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Ga. Tort Reform Fight Heating Back Up

Law 360

Brian Kemp said it's launching a six-figure tort reform campaign in the Peach State, prompting the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association to say that it's also taking action to make sure courthouse doors stay open for Georgians harmed by the actions of negligent people and corporations. A political group linked to Georgia Gov.

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The Critical Role of Lawyers and Bar Associations in Achieving Net Zero

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

Lawyers, bar associations, and law societies have an important but not fully recognized role to play in achieving the net zero goal in the Paris Agreement. Climate Change as an Increasingly Common Feature of Law Practice Climate change is no longer an issue of concern only to environmental and energy lawyers. John Kerry, then U.S.

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Williamson County, Tennessee Tort Trial Statistics

Day on Torts

BirdDog Law is the leading resource center for Tennessee trial lawyers and paralegals. In addition to information about court clerks, local rules, local forms, and more, each county’s database includes information about tort jury and non-jury trials.

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US Supreme Court hears oral arguments on federal Medicaid Act

JURIST

Marstiller on whether the “federal Medicaid Act provides for a state Medicaid program to recover reimbursement for Medicaid’s payment of a beneficiary’s past medical expenses by taking funds from the portion of the beneficiary’s tort recovery that compensates for future medical expenses.”

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Tort Litigation against Transnational Companies in England

Conflict of Laws

This post is an abridged adaptation of my recent article, Private International Law and Substantive Liability Issues in Tort Litigation against Multinational Companies in the English Courts: Recent UK Supreme Court Decisions and Post-Brexit Implications in the Journal of Private International Law. Muir-Watt (ibid) 386).

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