SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 17, 2021
The plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in federal court in California against Nestlé and Cargill, alleging that the companies had aided and abetted human-rights abuses because they had purchased cocoa beans from the plantations even though the companies knew that the plantations used child slavery. courts for serious violations of international law.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 23, 2021
The fatal shooting at Bonanza Creek Ranch already has the makings of a blockbuster tort action. ” The question is not whether but when the first torts lawsuit will be filed. Many of the crew were from California but the set is in New Mexico. In 1968, the California Supreme Court expanded NIED claims in Dillon v.
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SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 16, 2022
In 1951, it was acquired by a California gallery owner, who sold it to a Los Angeles collector. In 2005, after his petition was denied, Claude sued in federal district court in California, where he had lived since 1980. That question turned on whether California law or Spanish law governed. The full painting.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
MAY 23, 2018
a consolidated case in which Oakland and San Francisco claim that five fossil fuel companies’ production and promotion of fossil fuels constitutes a public nuisance under federal and California common law. BP P.L.C. , Three weeks later, on June 13, Judge John F. But none of the judges in these cases are bound by those decisions.
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.
Conflict of Laws
DECEMBER 6, 2023
She asserted claims in tort and under the Australian Consumer Law ( ACL ) in schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) ( CCA ) against companies behind the ship: Carnival plc and its subsidiary, Princess Cruise Lines Ltd (together, Princess ). The case has an obvious cross-border flavour.
The IP Law Blog
MAY 18, 2023
California’s right of publicity statute is Civil Code Section 3344, and it prohibits the use of another’s name, voice, photograph, or likeness on or in products, merchandise, or goods, or for purposes of advertising or selling such products, merchandise, or goods without such person’s prior consent. The first was Midler v.
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