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Tennessee statute of limitations is based on gravamen of complaint.

Day on Torts

Where plaintiff’s claims against defendant county were based on intentional torts, a one-year statute of limitations applied. 21, 2023), plaintiff was pulled over by a sheriff’s deputy employed by defendant county. In Anderson v. Lauderdale County, Tennessee , No. W2022-00332-COA-R3-CV (Tenn.

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Dismissal based on statute of limitations affirmed; court relied on judicial notice of court file

Day on Torts

Where the trial court took judicial notice of items from the court case underlying a tort action for invasion of privacy, abuse of process, and intentional infliction of emotional distress, it did not convert the motion to dismiss to a motion for summary judgment and dismissal of the claims based on the statute of limitations was affirmed.

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Pakistan dispatch: monsoons prompt concerns about official negligence aggravating environmental devastation

JURIST

According to a report issued by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), from 25 th June 2023 to 30 th July 2023, at least 179 people, including women and children, are dead and 264 people are injured due to various rain-related incidents, mainly involving electrocution and building collapse.

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New issue alert: RabelsZ 87 (2023), Issue 3

Conflict of Laws

An Ontology of the In-Between [18th Ernst Rabel Lecture, 2022] [OPEN ACCESS], 433–464, DOI: 10.1628/rabelsz-2023-0063 The conflict of laws can serve heuristically to underscore two established but radically opposing models of modernist legal ordering: multilateralism and statutism.

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Jury award to plaintiff affirmed where defendant presented evidence that some damages were not caused by the car accident.

Day on Torts

27, 2023), plaintiff and defendant were involved in a car accident when they approached traffic on the interstate that had slowed significantly and defendant rear-ended plaintiff’s car. Note: Chapter 25, Section 10 of Day on Torts: Leading Cases in Tennessee Tort Law has been updated to include this decision. In Besses v.

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Justices take up Native health care funding cases and a dispute over sentencing guide

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Supreme Court on Monday morning added two additional hours of argument, in cases involving federal funding of health care services for Native Americans and the Armed Career Criminal Act, to its docket for the 2023-24 term. The justices granted review in two cases, Becerra v. And in Erlinger v.

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The Case for Punishing ‘Police Bystanders’

The Crime Report

Editor’s Note: the trial for Kueng and Thao, charged with “aiding and abetting” the Floyd murder, h as been postponed until January 2023. Kaufman characterizes this legal duty requiring officer intervention as a “Bad Samaritan Law,” a “statute that imposes a legal duty to assist others in peril through interceding directly.”