SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Bankruptcy and its special powers are being used to compensate for what some court filings call the “ failure ” of tort litigation to efficiently and fully resolve all pending claims. Bankruptcy in Purdue’s case came after the company participated in the traditional tort process; it is the Sacklers’ third-party involvement that the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Texas Federal Court Ordered Jurisdictional Discovery in Exxon Case Against Massachusetts Attorney General, Citing Concern That State’s Investigation Was Undertaken in Bad Faith. New York Court Ordered Exxon and Its Accountant to Comply with Attorney General’s Subpoena. Murray Energy Corp. McCarthy , No. 5:14 -cv-39 (N.D.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The passengers (supported by the Commonwealth Attorney-General and ACCC, as interveners) took a different starting point — the threshold question is whether the forum law, as a matter of interpretation , applies to the contract irrespective of the parties’ usage of an exclusive jurisdiction clause.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The manufacturer of the drug, Purdue Pharma, promoted the drug as less susceptible to abuse, but OxyContin proved instead to be highly addictive. The victims, he concluded, can only get “life saving abatement and recovery dollars” through the current plan, which has the support of 50 state attorneys general. Both the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

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). Indeed, the torts and crimes recorded this year seem painfully reminiscent of this loathsome year. She also threatened another woman with a carving knife.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

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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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers v. The court said the laws’ provision for criminal or tort liability for advising, encouraging, or soliciting persons participating in a riot to acts of force or violence was overbroad and vague. The court also declined to “create a new tort named abusive litigation.” 17-1258 (D.C.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Circuit Court of Appeals granted a motion by a truck trailer manufacturers trade group to stay the final rule adopted by the U.S. Truck Trailer Manufacturers Association, Inc. The court also dismissed defamation and related state tort claims. Attorney General of Vermont , No. Department of Energy , Nos. 16-1430 (D.C.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

In a separate order, the court granted the motions of states and American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers to intervene in support of the respondents. Nonprofit Group and Its Board Member Sought to Unseal Records in Attorney General’s Suit Against Exxon. The attorney general opposed intervention. 19-1230 et al.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

Maryland Appellate Court Allowed Redaction of Attorney General’s Application to Participate in Special Assistant AG Program. The redacted sections were therefore exempt from disclosure due to attorney-client privilege. California Attorney General Sought to Intervene to Oppose Residential Projects in Areas Vulnerable to Wildfire.

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