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Claim regarding retirement benefit calculation was not a tort claim.

Day on Torts

Although plaintiff labeled his complaint as a tort claim, the gravamen of the complaint was a dispute over “the amount, time and manner of payment of plaintiff’s pension plan benefits.” After plaintiff appealed the decision, an Administrative Law Judge determined that plaintiff was in fact entitled to benefits from defendant.

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A Court-Side Seat: SCOTUS Further Clarifies Alien Tort Statute; Revisiting WOTUS

Gravel2Gavel

environmental and administrative law cases recently decided. The Congress may by law, “vest the appointment of.inferior officers.in The federal government depends on the service of thousands of Administrative Law Judges (ALJs), most of whom are appointed or selected by the head of an agency or internal agency boards.

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Guest Post: Climate Litigation in Japan: Citizens’ Attempts for the Coal Phase-Out

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

Civil law cases. In both cases, the so-called greening of human rights is observed, where the citizens attempt to incorporate the interests to not have their health damaged by GHG emissions into personal rights that are commonly used as a legal basis for an injunction in civil law cases. Administrative complaints.

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GWU Adjunct Law Professor Loses Worker’s Compensation Case

JonathanTurley

There is an interesting case this week involving an adjunct professor at George Washington Law School, where I teach. Her claims were dismissed by Judge Trevoer McFadden who found that they were foreclosed by worker’s compensation as well as failing to state a claim on various torts. Id. ¶ 174.

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Practice Area Switcharoo: Become An Expert in Anything

Attorney at Work

Ask a Law Librarian. A visit to a law library is an ideal way to start. For example, an interest in big pharma could lead you to sources about health law, antitrust, mass torts, consumer protection, and science and technology. Maybe you’ve read posts about fast-growing practice areas that would be more to your liking.

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UN Draft Treaty on Transnational Business Enterprises and Human Rights in the Making: Raising the Global Bar in Corporate Litigation

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

The Draft Treaty complements soft law in the same area, namely the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. This holds for tort law (liability), criminal law, and administrative law. 2(e), 6, 7, and 8, in particular).

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Israel dispatch: Knesset vote to curtail ‘reasonableness doctrine’ would limit judiciary’s power to constrain arbitrary executive decisions

JURIST

Israeli law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting Israel. This dispatch is from Mayan Lawent, a law student in the Buchmann Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University and a JURIST Staff Correspondent in Israel. To pass a bill in Israeli law, it must pass three readings.