Gravel2Gavel

JUNE 22, 2021

environmental and administrative law cases recently decided. SUPREME COURT. The Congress may by law, “vest the appointment of.inferior officers.in The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit invalidated their appointments and thereby jeopardized hundreds of pending patent claim judgments. the President alone.or

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Day on Torts

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

First, the Claims Commissioner ruled that the claim was “barred by § 70-7-102(a) of Tennessee’s Recreational Use Statute, which protects landowners, including the State of Tennessee, from responsibility for injury to recreational visitors.” In Victory v. State , No. M2020-01610-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. internal citation omitted).

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. This week’s update on the cases that the Supreme Court has newly relisted will be short: There aren’t any new relists. Gorsuch said he hoped the court would overturn those cases soon in “an appropriate case.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

FNHRA, a law enacted under Congress’s spending clause powers, requires nursing facilities participating in Medicare and Medicaid to “protect and promote the rights of each resident” as a condition of receiving funds. The court then applied its long-standing two-step analysis to conclude that FNHRA is enforceable through Section 1983.

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JURIST

JULY 31, 2023

Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. graduate of the Pakistan College of Law (University of London International Program). Or, in other words, does the law compensate citizens for the wrong done to them due to breaches of duty by public bodies?

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Day on Torts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Although plaintiff labeled his complaint as a tort claim, the gravamen of the complaint was a dispute over “the amount, time and manner of payment of plaintiff’s pension plan benefits.” 4-5-322, which grants exclusive jurisdiction of such reviews to the Chancery Court. The Court also looked at Tenn. Code Ann. § Code Ann. §

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Ms Karpik commenced representative proceedings—a class action—in the Federal Court of Australia. They contracted to travel on the cruise in different parts of the world, and according to Princess, were subject to different terms and conditions subject to different systems of law.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 17, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a lawsuit alleging that two U.S.-based The justices left open for another day the question of whether the federal law at the heart of the case allows lawsuits against U.S. The plaintiffs relied on the Alien Tort Statute, an 18th-century law that permits foreigners to bring lawsuits in U.S.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

As there are no laws in Mali to aid the plaintiffs in seeking damages or civil remedies against foreign exporters, they brought their claims under US law, specifically the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act and the Alien Torts Statute.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The argument revealed a bench deeply skeptical of the uncertainty maritime insurance contracts would face under a lower-court decision limiting the enforcement of choice-of-law clauses in those contracts. Often, when the parties are from different jurisdictions, they select a neutral forum and its law. Zapata Off-Shore Co.

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At the Lectern

JULY 21, 2022

Resolving what it said were “apparent conflicts in the Court of Appeal” regarding two issues, the Supreme Court today held in Siry Investment, L.P. Superior Court (2021) 64 Cal.App.5th 5th 549, review granted September 1, 2021, S269608.” ” (See here.).

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The Crime Report

JUNE 29, 2021

Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the appeal of CACI International Inc., CACI was appealing a lower court decision that favored the Iraqi men in 2019. law named the Alien Tort Statute that allows non-U.S. The Supreme Court in 2013 narrowed the Alien Tort Statute to cover conduct that occurred in the U.S.

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Day on Torts

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Where the trial court did not provide sufficient reasoning in support of its dismissal of plaintiffs’ various HCLA and informed consent claims, summary judgment for defendants was vacated. Defendant filed a motion to dismiss, asserting that plaintiff failed to file her complaint within the three-year statute of repose. Gibson , No.

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Day on Torts

JANUARY 11, 2022

Where plaintiff had filed complaints with the Board of Professional Responsibility (BPR) complaining of the same allegations that allegedly supported her legal malpractice claim, and those BPR complaints were filed more than one year before the legal malpractice suit was filed, summary judgment based on the statute of limitations was affirmed.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Passengers, Australian and non-Australian, want relief under the Australian Consumer Law ( ACL ). They commence representative proceedings alleging breaches of consumer law, and negligence in the Federal Court of Australia. Statute has left little of the common law untouched.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The New Zealand Court of Appeal has just released a judgment on the cross-border application of New Zealand consumer and fair trading legislation ( Body Corporate Number DPS 91535 v 3A Composites GmbH [2023] NZCA 647 ). In response, 3AC protested the New Zealand court’s jurisdiction.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Talevski did not reveal a Supreme Court ready to reconsider or overrule a line of cases allowing private suits for damages in federal court under 42 U.S.C. Robbins centered the fundamental error in the court’s precedent allowing individuals to enforce spending clause enactments through Section 1983. of Marion County v.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The XXIInd volume of the Yearbook of Private International Law (2020/2021) has been released. It contains articles on the most important innovations in multilateral and national private international law by authors from all over the world. Thanks to Ilaria Pretelli for the tip-off. . add to this already rich volume.

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 31, 2022

25, 2022), plaintiff filed multiple tort claims against multiple defendants, including libel claims against certain defendants based on their social media statements related to the death of a dog who died while in the care of plaintiff’s dog training business. Plaintiff appealed the TPPA dismissal from that June 24 th order. 3d 651 (Tenn.

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Day on Torts

MAY 18, 2022

Plaintiff asserted various claims against defendants, including breach of contract, fraud, intentional misrepresentation, and negligence, all of which the trial court dismissed as untimely pursuant to the three-year statute of limitations applicable to claims of injuries to real property. In Simpkins v. John Maher Builders, Inc. ,

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Day on Torts

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The trial court denied the TPPA motion to dismiss, and plaintiffs appealed this denial, which was vacated on appeal due to the trial court’s use of the wrong analysis. The Court of Appeals quoted Tenn. internal citations omitted). 20-17-105(a)(b); additional citation omitted). internal citation omitted).

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Day on Torts

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Defendants Goodall and the City both filed motions for summary judgment, which the trial court granted, and the Court of Appeals affirmed. Regarding the claims against Goodall, the trial court had found in part that the claim was barred by the applicable statute of repose found in Tenn. internal citation omitted).

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Day on Torts

AUGUST 2, 2022

Defendant argued that plaintiffs knew about the alleged conversion in October 2009 and that the claim was therefore time-barred, but the trial court found that the statute of limitations did not begin to run until after the father’s death. Conversion is subject to a three-year statute of limitations. Code Ann. §

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Day on Torts

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

After hearing the evidence, the trial court set a boundary line for the disputed property and denied plaintiffs’ claim for adverse possession of the disputed area. On appeal, dismissal of the trespass claim was vacated due to the trial court applying the wrong intent standard to the tort of trespass. internal citation omitted).

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Day on Torts

JANUARY 15, 2022

The Tennessee Supreme Court reviews very few cases in a given year. In the year ending June 30, 2020 (the last period for which information is publicly available) the High Court was asked to accept review in 569 cases. In the same fiscal year, the Court issued opinions in 63 cases. Link to Court of Appeals Opinions: [link].

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 23, 2021

The fatal shooting at Bonanza Creek Ranch already has the makings of a blockbuster tort action. ” The question is not whether but when the first torts lawsuit will be filed. (b) What is clear is that there is an abundance of evidence to support a tort action even at this early stage. Walgreen Hastings Co., Legg, 441 P.2d

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Day on Torts

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The trial court denied that motion and entered an award for the former employee on July 7, 2017. After this award was entered, County Attorney Robert Husker “began reviewing the court file and investigating the decisions made by [defendant attorney] during the trial.” On appeal, dismissal was affirmed.

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Day on Torts

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Where plaintiff filed a notice of voluntary dismissal in his defamation case before defendants filed their petition to dismiss under the TPPA, the trial court erred by granting defendants’ petition for dismissal and awarding them attorneys’ fees and sanctions after plaintiff’s nonsuit. In Adamson v. Grove , No. internal citation omitted).

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Day on Torts

JANUARY 25, 2022

Where plaintiff wife failed to give written notice of her loss of consortium claim against the State of Tennessee to the Division of Claims and Risk Management, dismissal of her claim was affirmed, despite the fact that her complaint was filed with the Claims Commission within the statute of limitations. In Kampmeyer v. State , No.

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Day on Torts

JUNE 21, 2022

The trial court granted defendant’s motion to dismiss, ruling that the complaint did not establish that the “retaking of the automobile was in defiance of the true owner’s rights,” and the Court of Appeals affirmed. Note: Chapter 22 of Day on Torts: Leading Cases in Tennessee Tort Law has been updated to include this decision.

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Defendant filed a petition for dismissal pursuant to the TPPA, and after finding that the TPPA applied, that plaintiff was a limited-purpose public figure in the context of this action, and that plaintiff “had not established a prima facie case for actual malice,” the trial court dismissed the case. The TPPA, Tenn. Code Ann. § quoting Tenn.

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The Court pointed out that although plaintiff took issue with defendant allowing a “recently graduated doctor to treat patients in its hospital when they had no medical license…,” plaintiff “presented no expert proof that [defendant’s] allowing this arrangement in its emergency department fell below the standard of acceptable care for hospitals.”

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Day on Torts

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The trial court dismissed the action, finding that the settlement of the personal injury case “very clearly intended to foreclose upon any future wrongful death funds related to the mesothelioma litigation,” and the Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal. internal citation omitted).

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Day on Torts

JUNE 13, 2022

Defendant filed a motion to dismiss the defamation action, which the trial court granted based on the absolute litigation privilege, and the Court of Appeals affirmed. The Court quickly concluded that this criteria was met, as defendant’s allegation that plaintiffs’ marriage was bigamous was the very basis of his complaint.

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Day on Torts

JUNE 15, 2022

Plaintiff filed claims against the State in the Division of Claims Administration and the City in circuit court, alleging that “the State and City were negligent for permitting the condition to exist without repair.” The Court rejected this argument. The claims were consolidated, and both defendants moved for summary judgment.

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Day on Torts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Where defendant driver stated that the accident that injured plaintiff passenger was due to her swerving to avoid a wild animal that unexpectedly entered the roadway, and plaintiff “presented no evidence of negligence on the part of the defendant,” summary judgment for defendant was affirmed by the Tennessee Court of Appeals. In Owings v.

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Day on Torts

JULY 26, 2022

Defendant filed a motion for summary judgment, which the trial court granted, ruling that defendant shared truthful information from public records about a matter of public concern and thus could not be liable. This case is an important read for anyone litigating a tort case involving a matter of public concern.

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