Day on Torts

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Where plaintiff filed a notice of voluntary dismissal in his defamation case before defendants filed their petition to dismiss under the TPPA, the trial court erred by granting defendants’ petition for dismissal and awarding them attorneys’ fees and sanctions after plaintiff’s nonsuit. M2020-01651-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 17334223 (Tenn.

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Day on Torts

MARCH 22, 2022

E2021-00261-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 678568 (Tenn. 8, 2022), plaintiff’s husband and step-son owned a commercial electrical contracting business. Plaintiff’s husband signed the indemnity agreement without reading it or having an attorney review it. Bradley , No. internal citation omitted). internal citation omitted).

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Day on Torts

MAY 11, 2022

E2021-00881-COA-R9-CV, 2022 WL 1117453 (Tenn. April 14, 2022), plaintiff filed an HCLA claim against several defendants, including the State of Tennessee as the employer of Dr. Landry, who was allegedly negligent. In Gilbert v. State , No. This opinion was released three months after oral arguments in this case.

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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. Again, the court agreed.

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