Day on Torts

APRIL 16, 2024

The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in Wilson County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023. BirdDog Law shares this information for every county in Tennessee. Click on the link for more information on the Wilson County court system.

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HowAppealing

MARCH 31, 2022

“Ohio Supreme Court asked to overturn tort reform law that lowered Brook Park child rapist’s judgment from $20 million to $250,000”: Laura Hancock of The Cleveland Plain Dealer has this report. The Supreme Court of Ohio has posted online the video of yesterday’s oral argument at this link.

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Day on Torts

APRIL 11, 2024

The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in Sullivan County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023. BirdDog Law shares this information for every county in Tennessee. Click on the link for more information on the Sullivan County court system.

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Day on Torts

APRIL 9, 2024

The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in Montgomery County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023. BirdDog Law shares this information for every county in Tennessee. Click on the link for more information on the Montgomery County court system.

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HowAppealing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Justices For Tort Law Shake-Up”: Matt Fair of Law360 has this report (subscription required for access) on the brief for appellant that I filed on my client’s behalf yesterday in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit , can be accessed here and here.

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Day on Torts

APRIL 4, 2024

The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in Williamson County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023. BirdDog Law shares this information for every county in Tennessee. Click on the link for more information on the Williamson County court system.

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Day on Torts

APRIL 2, 2024

The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in Rutherford County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023. BirdDog Law shares this information for every county in Tennessee. Click on the link for more information on the Rutherford County court system.

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Day on Torts

MARCH 28, 2024

The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in Hamilton County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023. BirdDog Law shares this information for every county in Tennessee. Click on the link for more information on the Hamilton County court system.

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HowAppealing

JUNE 14, 2023

“Armslist Not Liable for Hosting Gun Sale Ads That Led to Purchases by People Who Used the Guns Criminally; The Seventh Circuit so holds, applying Wisconsin tort law, and not reaching the 47 U.S.C. § Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued Monday. 230 issue” appeared first on How Appealing.

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Day on Torts

MARCH 26, 2024

The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in Knox County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023. BirdDog Law shares this information for every county in Tennessee. Click on the link for more information on the Knox County court system.

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Day on Torts

MARCH 21, 2024

The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in Davidson County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023. BirdDog Law shares this information for every county in Tennessee. Click on the link for more information on the Davidson County court system.

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Day on Torts

MARCH 19, 2024

The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in Bedford County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023. BirdDog Law shares this information for every county in Tennessee. Click on the link for more information on the Bedford County court system.

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Day on Torts

MARCH 14, 2024

The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in Anderson County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023. BirdDog Law shares this information for every county in Tennessee. Click on the link for more information on the Anderson County court system.

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Day on Torts

MARCH 12, 2024

The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in Marshall County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023. BirdDog Law shares this information for every county in Tennessee. Click on the link for more information on the Marshall County court system.

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JURIST

JUNE 20, 2021

The US Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a ruling that allowed several individuals to sue food corporations Nestlé USA and Cargill over child slavery claims, limiting corporate liability under the Alien Tort Statute. The case which the Supreme Court decided was Nestlé USA, Inc. Doe I, consolidated with Cargill, Inc.

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Day on Torts

MARCH 5, 2024

The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in Sumner County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023. BirdDog Law shares this information for every county in Tennessee. Click on the link for more information on the Sumner County court system.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday became the first US appeals court to propose a new rule requiring lawyers to certify that they either did not use generative artificial intelligence (AI) programs, like Chat GPT, to draft filings or that humans reviewed AI-generated material.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 12, 2023

Oxford University Press officially released the recent book authored by Dr Ugljesa Grusic (Associate Professor at UCL Laws ) titled Torts in UK Foreign Relations. The book offers a comprehensive account of private international law aspects of tortious claims arising out of the external exercise of British executive authority.

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JURIST

JANUARY 1, 2021

The Iowa Supreme Court ruled Thursday that plaintiffs cannot recover punitive damages from the state when a law enforcement officer uses excessive force. The Iowa Tort Claims Act (ITCA) prohibits an award of punitive damages against the state.

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HowAppealing

AUGUST 16, 2022

Appeals Court Says Commerce in Arms Act Does Not Bar State Tort Claims; Five of nine Superior Court judges supported the Aug. Appeals Court Says Commerce in Arms Act Does Not Bar State Tort Claims; Five of nine Superior Court judges supported the Aug. “Divided Pa. The post “Divided Pa.

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JURIST

AUGUST 5, 2021

The government of Mexico filed a complaint on Wednesday against eight gun manufacturers, holding companies and distributors, alleging tort claims based on a “deadly flood of military-style and other particularly lethal guns” across the border from the US into Mexico. Notably, that challenge was not based on the Second Amendment.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The UK Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a Guantanamo Bay prisoner held by the US can bring a claim in the English and Welsh courts against UK authorities. The preliminary issue for the courts in this case was which law applied to the torts allegedly committed while Zubaydah was being held in these six countries.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 31, 2023

In teaching torts, I begin my discussion of the intentional infliction of emotional distress by having students write in their notes “not everything is the infliction of emotional distress.” Keisel brought an array of tort claims that have now been correctly rejected by the courts. Here as elsewhere, context is key.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

While the recent bankruptcies of Johnson & Johnson, Purdue Pharma and Boy Scouts of America have sparked debate about whether bankruptcy court is the best venue for resolving mass tort claims, bankruptcy's structural, procedural and substantive benefits make it a superior choice over multidistrict litigation, says Samir Parikh at Lewis & Clark Law (..)

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Constitutional Law Reporter

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Supreme Court clarified when plaintiffs can seek redress in U.S. courts for human rights abuses that occur overseas. By a vote of 8-1, the Court held that to plead facts sufficient to support a domestic application of the Alien Tort Statute, 28 U.S.C. Supreme Court’s Decision. The Supreme Court reversed.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 9, 2021

Tort Choice of Law Rules in Cross-border Multi-party Litigation under European and Chinese Private International Law. This blog post is part of the article ‘Tort Conflicts Rules in Cross-border Multi-party Litigation: Which Law Has a Closer or the Closest Connection?’ Tort conflicts rules in China and the EU.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from North Carolina on Monday over the constitutionality of a state law allowing employers to sue employees working as undercover investigators. The court stated that the law substantially “burden[ed] newsgathering and publishing activities.”

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

66, 2023) of the Japanese Yearbook of International Law (formerly Annual Yearbook of Private International Law) – published by the International Law Association of Japan – has recently been released. The latest volume (Vol. MOBILITY AND BELONGING IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD Yuko Nishitani Introductory Note (p.

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 14, 2024

“Drugmaker can be held responsible for delaying HIV treatment rollout, court rules”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report. ” You can access last Tuesday’s ruling of the California Court of Appeal for the First Appellate District at this link. .”

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 2, 2023

Share In an 8-1 opinion on Thursday, the justices provided a new definition to the limits on the right to strike under federal labor law. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local Union 174 was whether an employer could sue its employees’ union under state law for damage the employer incurred as a result of the union’s strike.

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Day on Torts

AUGUST 16, 2022

BirdDog Law is the leading resource center for Tennessee trial lawyers and paralegals. Among the free information included on the site is 95 databases, one for each county in Tennessee, which contain information about the court system in each county.

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JURIST

APRIL 16, 2024

The US Supreme Court Monday declined a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by Black Lives Matter organizer DeRay Mckesson, effectively allowing him to be sued by a Louisiana police officer for negligence. ” Both the district court and the Fifth Circuit looked to NAACP v. The case at bar, DeRay Mckesson v.

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Above The Law

APRIL 26, 2022

The post Alex Jones’s Lawyers ‘Splain To Bankruptcy Judge That Putting The Kibosh On State Tort Claims Is His Real Job appeared first on Above the Law. Bold strategy, Cotton!

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At the Lectern

JULY 10, 2023

Superior Court , the Supreme Court today holds that medical providers can assert a statutory claim against publicly operated health care service plans, just as they can sue privately operated plans, to get reimbursement for emergency services provided to plan enrollees. In County of Santa Clara v. ” (Link added.)

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The US Supreme Court Thursday released the list of oral arguments it will hear during the January 2023 session. The court will hear seven arguments in a session that begins on January 9, 2023. The court will first hear arguments in the cases of In re Grand Jury and Ohio Adjutant General’s Department v.

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JURIST

JUNE 9, 2022

The US Supreme Court Wednesday made it harder to individually sue federal agents who violate constitutional rights. In a 6-3 decision the court limited the use of the 1971 case Bivens v. The court denied that the Constitution allows any inherent right to sue the agent. Six Unknown Named Agents to establish grounds for a lawsuit.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 7, 2023

León Castellanos-Jankiewicz Researcher, International Law T.M.C. Asser Institute for International & European Law, The Hague Mexico’s ongoing transnational litigation against the firearms industry in U.S. legislation—not Mexican laws. On appeal in the U.S. and in respect to U.S.

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