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TURKEY TORTS (2020)

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In celebration of Thanksgiving, I give you our annual Turkey Torts of civil and criminal cases that add liability to libations on this special day (with past cases at the bottom). In 2020, the cancelation of parades and the reduction of travel has led to a very different legal profile of holiday mishaps and malfeasance.

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November 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The First Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court order remanding to state court the State of Rhode Island’s lawsuit that seeks relief from oil and gas companies for climate change injuries allegedly caused by the companies’ actions. On October 27, 2020, the D.C. Chernaik v. Brown , No. S066564 (Or. Rhode Island v.

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Spooky Torts: The 2023 List of Litigation Horrors

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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. In another June 2023 decision in Munoz v.

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Tennessee HCLA Case Dismissed under Statute of Limitations.

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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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Spooky Torts: The 2022 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

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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Spooky Torts: The 2021 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

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, there are still some notable additions that raise more legal frights. There was a failure to monitor employees and safeguard the scene.

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Tennessee “Discovery Rule” Applied to Vehicle Crash Case

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8, 2020), the plaintiff’s husband was killed when his vehicle collided with one being driven by a firefighter. Based on the reasoning of Mills , the Court concluded that the plaintiff in this case was sufficiently on notice of her cause of action on the date of the accident to begin the limitations period.