SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

United States is next in a protracted line of cases in which the court has considered whether statutory bars to causes of action are firm “jurisdictional” rules or instead more forgiving claims-processing rules. Why, you might ask, should this matter? In most cases, perhaps, it would not.

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Day on Torts

MARCH 30, 2021

Where the other driver in a car accident case died before suit was filed and the plaintiff failed to “timely file his tort action against the personal representative within the applicable statute of limitations,” summary judgment for the personal representative was affirmed. Luethke , No. E2020-00317-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. Code Ann. §

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Day on Torts

AUGUST 9, 2021

The trial court found plaintiff’s testimony that she was not involved in setting up the annuity and had no knowledge of it to be credible, and it ruled that defendant was liable for conversion. These rulings were affirmed on appeal. In Pomeroy v. McGinnis , No. E2020-00960-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. Code Ann. § 47-3-118(g). “In

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 25, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Friday substantially narrowed a class action against TransUnion , one of the nation’s three major credit-reporting companies. Friday’s ruling in TransUnion v. The Supreme Court ruled in Spokeo v. The Constitution does no such thing.”

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 15, 2023

Ignoring the threshold questions on which the court had not granted review and applying a longstanding clear-statement rule, a near-unanimous court ruled in favor of Puerto Rico’s financial oversight board. One involves “a statute [that] says in so many words that it is stripping immunity from a sovereign entity.”

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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 10, 2024

Supreme Court ruled that public officials may be held liable for their social media activity in certain circumstances. The District Court found that because Freed managed his Facebook page in his private capacity, and because only state action can give rise to liability under §1983, Lindke’s claim failed. In Lindke v.

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Day on Torts

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Under Tennessee Rule of Civil Procedure 41.01, “the right of the plaintiff to dismiss the action without prejudice is free and unrestricted except in limited and well-defined circumstances.” Rule 41.01 internal citation omitted). internal citation omitted). internal citations and quotations omitted). internal citation omitted).

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Day on Torts

AUGUST 2, 2021

Under the public duty doctrine, public employees and governmental entities are shielded “from suits for injuries that are caused by the employee’s breach of a duty owed to the public at large rather than to the individual plaintiff,” unless one of three special duty exceptions applies. internal citation). internal citations omitted).

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Day on Torts

MAY 11, 2022

Notably, subsection (a)(2) specifically states that the certificate of good faith “must certify that ‘there is a good faith basis for maintaining the action as to each defendant consistent with the requirements of § 29-26-115.” The Court continued its analysis by pointing out that one of its prior decisions supported dismissal in this case.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The FCRA also creates a cause of action for consumers to sue and recover damages for certain violations. The District Court ruled that all class members had Article III standing on each of the three statutory claims. Congress may enact legal prohibitions and obligations.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 25, 2024

3] This objective of this reform was to render it ‘unnecessary for a claimant to scrutinise the long list of permissible cases set out in the existing Rules in the hope of fitting into one or more descriptions.’ [4] 21] Order 8 rule 1(3) is missing the first option.

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Day on Torts

JANUARY 11, 2021

Based on these findings, the Court ruled that plaintiff had not met the requirements of the first exception to the Public Duty Doctrine. The Court next analyzed whether this case fell within the third special duty exception based on the deputy’s alleged reckless conduct. internal citation omitted).

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 17, 2023

Although the ministerial exception might ultimately shield Faith Christian from liability, the court ruled, it does not protect the school against having to litigate Tucker’s lawsuit at all. Whether Tucker served as a minister is a difficult question for a jury to answer, the 10th Circuit explained. Murco Wall Products, Inc.

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Day on Torts

APRIL 29, 2021

Simply put, [defendants] were no longer on notice that [plaintiff] might pursue a cause of action for health care liability against them. Further, this case demonstrates the importance of carefully following the timeline outlined in the statute, as notice must be given at least sixty days before the complaint is filed.

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Day on Torts

MAY 3, 2022

According to the Supreme Court, “[a] negligent act or omission is operational when it is made (1) in the absence of a formulated policy guiding the conduct or omission; or (2) when the conduct deviates from an established plan or policy.” The Court reasoned: We conclude that the acts alleged in the complaint are operational.

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Patently O

MARCH 18, 2024

by Dennis Crouch In a recent nonprecedential decision, the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court ruling ordering the correction of inventorship for U.S. 286 (“no recovery shall be had for any infringement committed more than six years prior to the filing of the complaint or counterclaim for infringement in the action.”)

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 15, 2023

The Federal Court Legislation Amendment Rules 2022 (Cth) (‘Amendment Rules’) came into force on 13 January 2023. Among other things, they amend the Federal Court Rules 2011 (Cth) (‘FCR’) by repealing division 10.4, The Amendment Rules replace the old division 10.4 1] Civil Procedure Rules 2006 (ACT) div 6.8.9;

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 19, 2021

Secondly, a court can validly exercise jurisdiction over a defendant in an action in personam where such defendant submits to the court’s jurisdiction or waives his right to raise a jurisdictional challenge. Thus, a court may only stretch its jurisdictional arm outside its territory in certain limited circumstances. [12]

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Despite this history, a new decision out of the High Court is still shocking in its implications for further attacks on free speech. The court ruled that newspapers and television stations that post articles on social media sites like Facebook are liable for other third party comments on those posts. 47 U.S.C. §

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 18, 2023

The UK Supreme Court ruled that the cause of action in the aftermath of the 2011 Bonga offshore oil spill accrued at the moment when the oil reached the shore. The lower courts and the UK Supreme court agreed with Shell. This was a one-off event and not a continuing nuisance.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The appellate court also found that even if the trial court erred, the error was harmless because the State proved both acts beyond a reasonable doubt. Hawaii Court Ruled that Commercial Aquarium Fishing Required Environmental Review. Zepeda , No. 80593-2-I (Wash.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit rejected Monsanto’s argument that it could not have violated California’s duty to warn because the Environmental Protection Agency had concluded under the labeling provisions of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act that the herbicide did not pose “any unreasonable risk to man or the environment.”

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The court ruled against her and found that the park’s duty was only to “make conditions as safe as they appear to be” and that Munoz “ was aware of the risk she encountered, and expected to be surprised, startled, and scared.” See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102. Trimble ␣ 315 Mo.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

and “without an allegation of special damages, the [AC] does not allege a legally sufficient cause of action [for defamation] under California law.” The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. Companies, Inc.,

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The New Jersey court also found no basis for Grable jurisdiction, rejecting the companies’ arguments that the City’s claims necessarily raised substantial and actually disputed issues of federal law such as First Amendment issues or issues addressed by federal environmental statutes.

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