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Tennessee HCLA Case Dismissed under Statute of Limitations.

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Here, the issue was whether the pre-suit notice letter was sent by plaintiff “more than one year after the cause of action accrued and the one-year statute of limitations period began to run.”. Note: Chapter 50, Section 3 of Day on Torts: Leading Cases in Tennessee Tort Law has been updated to include this decision.

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Finding of conversion and fraudulent concealment affirmed where brother signed sister’s name on check

Day on Torts

On appeal, defendant argued that although plaintiff was a named owner on the annuity, “they were owners in name only and that the effect of the transaction establishing the annuity was to create something of a constructive trust for Decedent [mother] with [defendant’s] ‘legal posture’ in the nature of a trustee or custodian.” Code Ann. §

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July 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The District of Utah held that the lease suspensions merely maintained the status quo and therefore were not major federal actions subject to NEPA; the conservation groups therefore lacked standing. Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Living Rivers v. Hoffman , No. 4:19-cv-00057 (D. Utah June 21, 2021). BP p.l.c. , 19-1644 (4th Cir.

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