At the Lectern

AUGUST 9, 2022

Los Angeles Times writers Harriet Ryan and Matt Hamilton report today on Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye’s reaction to their earlier exposé about the role of private judges — including former California Supreme Court justice Edward Panelli — in disgraced lawyer Tom Girardi’s schemes to defraud clients. ”). .

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Above The Law

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The Guardian ] * In a much needed move, California is passing legislation that makes stealthing illegal. If only they knew about issue-spotting before Torts. [ Reuters ]. [ Business Insider ] * Missourians going the "liberty or death" route are mad the federal government is trying to make them die less. [

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At the Lectern

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The latest edition of California Legal History, the Journal of the California Supreme Court Historical Society , is out and available here. The Journal includes the following: › Women, Marriage, and Divorce in California, 1849–1872 by Bonnie L. Moreno, Associate Justice, California Supreme Court, 2001–2011.

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Law 360

JANUARY 13, 2023

Catch up this week with coverage on why Private Attorneys General Act suits and notices are decreasing in California, what could happen if the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Below is my column in The Hill on the recent victory of a California professor in challenging diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies on free speech grounds. I also teach critical race theory, alongside other legal theories to my first-year torts students. You object to DEI statements, priorities and training at your own peril.

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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.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

That was unfortunately not particularly notable given the common crimes and torts that marks All Hallow’s Eve. Dominic Salazar, 31, had a Halloween to remember (or not) after he was arrested for drunken disorderly conduct, domestic battery, and other charges.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In our new report, Climate Risk in the Electricity Sector: Legal Obligations to Advance Climate Resilience Planning by Electric Utilities , we show that it is also legally required under state public utility law and tort law. It also puts electric utilities at risk of breaching their obligations under state public utility law and tort law.

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At the Lectern

AUGUST 20, 2021

The California Supreme Court Historical Society honored the three winners of its annual Selma Moidel Smith Law Student Writing Competition. (I’m Brook Tylka, who just graduated from Boston University’s law school, won second place, writing “Getting to Tarasoff : A Gender-Based History of Tort Law Doctrine.”.

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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.

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The Crime Report

JULY 7, 2022

Covering wage and hour claims is novel among state NDA restrictions and the language about public policy mandates appears to be aimed at a tort claim that’s available for wrongful termination under Washington law.

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At the Lectern

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The Ninth Circuit yesterday asked the Supreme Court to resolve a question of California law that will decide a federal action against Uber arising from the alleged improper launch of the company’s ridesharing platform in Argentina. Asked and answered: California Supreme Court responses to Ninth Circuit questions.

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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.

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Patently O

JANUARY 16, 2024

by Dennis Crouch A California Court of Appeals issued a product liability decision in early 2024 that raises interesting questions about the role of both carrots and sticks in innovation policy. Gilead Tenofovir Cases , No. A165558, 2024 WL 94462 (Cal. 9, 2024) Read It Here. Still, the decision here is incremental.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Students at California Lutheran University have filed a federal defamation lawsuit against the school for defamation and false light after the school denounced softball players and coaches as racists for a college skit. California Lutheran University complaint. TWELFTH CAUSE OF ACTION FOR VIOLATION OF LABOR CODE § 2699.

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At the Lectern

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The court’s unanimous opinion by Justice Goodwin Liu holds that section 1759 bars the class action because “allowing suit here would interfere with the [California Public Utilities Commission’s] comprehensive regulatory and supervisory authority over [Public Safety Power Shutoffs].” Citation.]

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

I have taught medical malpractice as part of my torts course for decades but I have never seen anything quite like this. He will now have to appear before the Medical Board of California, presumably not in scrubs and in mid surgery. While Green was willing to continue, the court was not.

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At the Lectern

AUGUST 18, 2021

California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and Gonzalez v. Gonzalez raises the issue, can a homeowner who hires an independent contractor be held liable in tort for injury sustained by the contractor’s employee when the homeowner does not retain control over the worksite and the hazard causing the injury was known to the contractor?

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 14, 2021

California , a state court in California ruled that the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act of 1994, which expressly preempts any state law “related to a price, route, or service of any motor carrier … with respect to the transportation of property,” did not preempt California’s “ABC test.” California.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

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.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 23, 2023

Teaching torts, it is easy to develop a sense of the macabre. Torts involves every possible thing that can happen to people from finding a toe in chewing tobacco (Pillars) to being killed by a flying coffin at an amusement part (Chueng). Since I was a law student, I have also noted bizarre “flying body” cases of torts.

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Blackstone Career Institute

MARCH 28, 2024

Just three years later, 250 incarcerated people at San Quentin Federal Prison in California were enrolled in courses at the University of California. In 1913, 50 inmates at a federal prison in Leavenworth, Kansas were enrolled at the state’s Agricultural College.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 15, 2023

Becerra that “crisis pregnancy centers” opposed to abortion were likely to prevail in their First Amendment challenge to a California law that required them to disclose information about the availability of abortion to their patients. Brown , which upheld a nearly identical California ban on conversion therapy.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

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. A tort action for intentional infliction of emotional distress is likely to fail. The next scary moment is likely to be in the form of a torts complaint.

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

California, Michigan, North Carolina and Washington, D.C., It is a realistic prediction that we’ll live in a world where thousands of estate planning lawyers work for Fidelity, and hedge funds run the most significant plaintiff tort outfits. have task forces up and running, exploring revisions to Rule 5.4. Seems Like the Status Quo.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 6, 2022

” Like most states, California has codified the citizen arrest power. There is some variation in these laws but California has a classic provision. It allows for the use of a citizen’s arrest for any felonies but also a misdemeanor if it is committed in your presence.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

It evolved into a common-law tort to address a broader range of “interests of the community at large—interests that were recognized as rights of the general public entitled to protection,” in the words of the American Law Institute’s Second Restatement of Torts (1965-79). The latest decision follows a California trial judge’s Nov.

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At the Lectern

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

and more fully explain why that departure is appropriate under current California law.” In Rattagan , the court is expected to answer the Ninth Circuit’s question , “Under California law, are claims for fraudulent concealment exempted from the economic loss rule?” ” Lemon law.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 15, 2022

States with the highest employment levels were Florida, California, Texas, New York, and Illinois, with annual wages ranging from $52,100 to $60,390. She worked in larger firms in the downtown Phoenix area for past Presidents of the American Trial Lawyer’s Association, specializing in tort law.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 10, 2022

By contrast, courts in California and Canada have found a contractual jurisdiction and applicable law clause invalid as a matter of public policy in order to allow a class action privacy claim to proceed against Facebook. [6] The claimant sought to apply the cases on the tort of misuse of private information by analogy.

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The Paralegal Resource

JANUARY 26, 2012

In California, UPL is a crime, not a civil tort. Even if you are a lawyer, it might be scary to be charged with an Unauthorized Practice of Law (UPL) complaint, by a district attorney, a State Attorney General, or the US Attorney General (or their deputies). If you are not an attorney, this would definitely be scary.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 21, 2023

Stories about climate change and insurance dominate the news , as insurer after insurer pulls out of markets like Florida and California that are at high risk of climate change-driven catastrophes. Climate litigation is a broad and rapidly changing risk, however, and current industry modelling techniques struggle to capture its full scope.

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Rocket Matter

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Social media prompts: Create a list of 10 LinkedIn post ideas for a mass tort firm that specializes in Brainstorm 20 post ideas for our CEO’s personal LinkedIn page to position them as a thought leader on California divorce law Create a LinkedIn post on how my business law firm is accepting new clients 5.

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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.

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The IP Law Blog

MAY 12, 2022

West’s lawyer claims that the producers have committed the tort of false light invasion of privacy by creating a false impression about Mr. West that is highly offensive and injurious to his reputation and have also defamed Mr. West by attributing acts of rage to him that he never committed. In Fairstein v.

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At the Lectern

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The Second District, Division Eight, published opinion held an injured yacht club’s maintenance worker could not sue his employer under federal maritime law because Congress in the Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act has relegated club employees to state workers’ compensation remedies, which preclude tort lawsuits.

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