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No cause of action against employers for take-home COVID

At the Lectern

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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Claims of Recklessness and Gross Negligence May Proceed Under Tennessee Governmental Tort Liability Act

Day on Torts

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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Court endorses private Section 1983 enforcement of spending clause enactments

SCOTUSBlog

Gorgi Talevski’s family brought a Section 1983 action against Valparaiso Care and Rehabilitation, a government nursing facility owned by Health and Hospital Corp. Jackson explained that two well-established principles prompted the court to reject HHC’s invitation to reimagine the statute and precedent.

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Tennessee “Discovery Rule” Applied to Vehicle Crash Case

Day on Torts

Where plaintiff knew her husband was killed in a car accident with a firefighter but did not know all the details regarding how the accident occurred, the one-year statute of limitations began to run on the day of the crash and her GTLA suit that was filed more than one year after the accident was untimely. In Durham v.

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Court explores continued private enforcement of spending clause enactments

SCOTUSBlog

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.

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Case of the Day: Scalin v. Société Nationale SNCF

LettersBlogatory

” France has an administrative claims process for victims of the Nazis and the Vichy government. It creates an exception to foreign sovereign immunity but does not itself create a cause of action. 1605A, does not just create an exception to immunity but also creates a federal cause of action).

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The New Zealand Court of Appeal on the cross-border application of New Zealand consumer and fair trading legislation

Conflict of Laws

More generally, the judgment provides a useful analysis of the interrelationship between statutory interpretation and choice of law, and lends weight to the proposition that product liability is properly governed by the law of the place of supply (or injury). They alleged negligence, breach of s 6 of the CGA and breaches of the FTA.