2022 Cause of Action Laws Statute 
JURIST
JUNE 22, 2023
The Supreme Court of the State of Colorado struck down the state’s Child Sexual Abuse Accountability Act (CSAAA) on Tuesday, ruling that the law violates the state constitution and is “unconstitutionally retrospective.” This section forbids the state legislature from passing “ex post facto” laws.
At the Lectern
JULY 6, 2023
Responding to questions asked by the Ninth Circuit about California law, the court’s unanimous opinion by Justice Carol Corrigan precludes an action alleging a construction worker’s wife contracted COVID from her husband due to his employer’s failure to abide by government health orders at the beginning of the pandemic.
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Day on Torts
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Where a patient left the hospital with known pressure ulcers and no wound treatment plan, the statute of limitations for his HCLA (health care liability act, formerly known as medical malpractice) claim related to those skin wounds began to run on the day he was discharged from the hospital. M2022-00476-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 16545403 (Tenn.
Conflict of Laws
DECEMBER 19, 2023
More generally, the judgment provides a useful analysis of the interrelationship between statutory interpretation and choice of law, and lends weight to the proposition that product liability is properly governed by the law of the place of supply (or injury). In response, 3AC protested the New Zealand court’s jurisdiction.
Day on Torts
APRIL 15, 2022
M2020-01509-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 1040371 (Tenn. April 7, 2022, plaintiff filed suit against twelve defendants after she placed her child for adoption at birth but subsequently changed her mind. Plaintiff argued that the statute did not apply to Ms. Plaintiff argued that the statute was not applicable here, as Ms.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 2, 2022
Share This week we highlight cert petitions (and one original action ) that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether New Jersey can withdraw from its Waterfront Commission Compact with New York concerning governance and law enforcement over the Port of New York and New Jersey. In New York v. However, the U.S.
Patently O
OCTOBER 11, 2021
The PTO has declared a “standard operating procedure,” and the plaintiff here argues that the SOPs were illegal rulemakings (“promulgated without lawful adherence to the strictures of the Administrative Procedure Act.”). In other words, the patent laws are integral to the lawsuit. That case is now on appeal.
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