Cause of Action Government Legal Tort 
At the Lectern
JULY 6, 2023
In other words, there’s no legal exposure for employee family member virus exposure. ” “[E]xclusivity provisions bar a third party claim only when proof of an employee’s injury is required as an element of the cause of action,” the court says.
Day on Torts
AUGUST 2, 2021
At that time, Officer Godsey and a 911 operator “casually discussed the situation…[and] no action was taken then to shut down the highway or undertake any other preventative measures.” One of those three exceptions arises when “the plaintiff alleges a cause of action involving intent, malice, or reckless misconduct.”
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SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 8, 2023
Gorgi Talevski’s family brought a Section 1983 action against Valparaiso Care and Rehabilitation, a government nursing facility owned by Health and Hospital Corp. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote for a seven-justice majority. HHC argued that spending clause enactments are unique.
Day on Torts
DECEMBER 30, 2020
One year and 21 days after the accident, the plaintiff filed this case under Tennessee’s Governmental Tort Liability Act against the county that employed the firefighter, the fire department, and the estate of the firefighter, who was also killed in the accident. Defendants moved to dismiss based on the statute of limitations.
LettersBlogatory
AUGUST 23, 2021
On the other hand, it is very hard to see why, more than 75 years after the crimes of the Nazis and their French collaborators in France, a foreign national (or more precisely, his or her descendants) should have a legal remedy in a US court, for all sorts of reasons. As with the Germany v. But before the appeal was argued, in Philipp v.
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
This case presents whether a resident deprived of those rights can sue a publicly owned and operated nursing home under Section 1983, which provides a cause of action against government actors who deprive anyone of rights secured by the “laws” of the United States, meaning other federal statutes, including spending clause enactments.
SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 16, 2022
Unbeknownst to the Cassirer family or the German government, the Pissarro was not lost. In 1992, he worked with the Spanish government to establish the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, a museum in Madrid. That question turned on whether California law or Spanish law governed. The full painting. Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum).
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