Day on Torts

JUNE 13, 2022

Where defendant’s allegedly defamatory statements accusing plaintiffs of bigamy were made within the context of a declaratory judgment action, the absolute litigation privilege applied and dismissal of the defamation case was affirmed. This case is a good example of the absolute litigation privilege being applied. In Vanwinkle v.

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LPB Network

JUNE 23, 2021

Today on the Courts Law section of JOTWELL is Howard Wasserman’s essay, The Paths to Comprehensive Entity Liability in Constitutional Litigation. Howard reviews two recent articles by Katherine Mims Crocker, Reconsidering Section 1983’s Nonabrogation of Sovereign Immunity, 73 Fla.

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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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Law 360

MAY 2, 2024

A New York federal court's decision to exclude all plaintiff experts in a multidistrict litigation concerning prenatal exposure to Tylenol highlights a number of expert testimony pitfalls that parties should avoid in product liability and mass tort matters, say Rand Brothers and Courtney Block at Winston & Strawn.

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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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JURIST

JANUARY 31, 2023

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Monday ruled against Johnson and Johnson’s (J&J) attempt to resolve its multi-billion dollar litigation over claims that its talcum-based powders were carcinogenic. The decision reversed an early Bankruptcy Court order in favor of J&J.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 8, 2022

The post also illustrates the positive impact the reform is likely to have on climate litigation initiatives in Italy. Adopting a comparative perspective, we draw on constitutional frameworks and recent climate litigation cases in other European jurisdictions. What does the reform bring about? 179/2019 ).

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JURIST

JUNE 1, 2023

The US Supreme Court held Thursday that a local union must litigate a property damage dispute in state court, as opposed to appearing before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The court held that the NLRA’s protection of the right to strike is not absolute. In Glacier Northwest v.

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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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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 21, 2024

The Supreme Court of Canada has granted leave to appeal in Sinclair v Venezia Turismo. In light of the test for obtaining leave and the relatively low number of cases in which leave is granted, this offers at least some suggestion that the top court is interested in considering the legal issues raised in the case.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 29, 2021

In FS Cairo (Nile Plaza) LLC v Lady Brownlie [2021] UKSC 45 (“ Brownlie II ”), the Supreme Court held as a matter of ratio by a 4:1 majority that consequential loss satisfies the ‘tort gateway’ in Practice Direction (“ PD ”) 6B, para. Economic torts? Background. PD 6B, para. Three main reasons were given.

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The Cloud Court Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

TL;DR: Cloud Court augments Hire Counsel’s deep pool of expertise for projects that require intensive time and resource demands. Gibson, our testimony intelligence solution , is an intuitive complement to the litigation process. Press release

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 7, 2023

Asser Institute for International & European Law, The Hague Mexico’s ongoing transnational litigation against the firearms industry in U.S. courts is raising important questions of private international law, in particular as regards the application of Mexican tort law in U.S. On appeal in the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 21, 2023

On July 21, 2023, the Sabin Center launched its latest report, Modelling Climate Litigation Risk for (Re)Insurers. However, alongside physical risks, companies face a rising tide of climate change-related litigation. The economic impact of climate litigation can be enormous.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Monday morning added two additional hours of argument, in cases involving federal funding of health care services for Native Americans and the Armed Career Criminal Act, to its docket for the 2023-24 term. The court designated six cases as bellwether cases. du Pont de Nemours v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 21, 2022

On March 15, 2022, the Full Federal Court of Australia, an intermediate appellate court, unanimously overturned the primary judge’s decision in Sharma and Others v. The decision has significant implications for future climate litigation claims in Australia. Sharma and Others and its impact for climate litigation in Australia.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 26, 2021

As was briefly announced earlier on this blog , on 29 January 2021, the Dutch Court of Appeal in The Hague gave a ruling in a long-standing litigation launched by four Nigerian farmers and the Dutch Milieudefensie. Climate change and related human rights litigation is undoubtedly of increasing importance in private international law.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Edoardo Benvenuti , Research Fellow at the University of Milan, Climate change litigation e diritto internazionale privato dell’Unione europea: quale spazio per la tutela collettiva? Climate Change Litigation and EU Private International Law: Is There Room for Collective Redress?;

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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. In Welch v. Welch , No. M2021-00081-COA-R3-CV (Tenn.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Over the past five years, there has been significant growth in litigation aimed at holding fossil fuel companies accountable for their contributions to climate change. By Jessica Wentz. In the 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. Several of the companies have declined to comment on the pending litigation.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 12, 2023

By Moses Wiepen, Legal Trainee at the Higher Regional Court of Hamm, Germany In its decision of 21 July 2023 (V ZR 112/22), the German Federal Court of Justice confirmed that Art. In general, following the procedural law principle of actor sequitur forum rei , the Canadian trust should be brought to court in Canadian courts.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 26, 2023

Coal-Fired power plants targeted at the case, taken by Attorney Shunsuke Sugit In March 2023, two important decisions regarding the operation of newly built coal-fired power plants were handed down by courts in Japan. Background information about the general climate context and litigation in Japan is available in a previous blog post.

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LawSites

JANUARY 11, 2023

Last June, the seven-year-old litigation analytics company Gavelytics shut down, seemingly overnight, with founder and CEO Rick Merrill announcing the news by an email on June 29 that he “recently made the difficult decision to close Gavelytics effective June 30,” as I reported at the time. .

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 4, 2022

The prosecution moved to dismiss “in the interest of justice” and a New York trial court dismissed the matter. Kavanaugh’s opinion for the court. Kavanaugh began by affirming that precedent from the court and lower courts recognized claims for unreasonable seizure pursuant to legal process under the Fourth Amendment.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Starting in 2017, cities, counties, and states across the United States have filed claims (see here and here ) in state courts against fossil fuel companies seeking redress for the climate harms their products have caused. Many of these cases asserted nuisance and other tort law claims. The Hawai‘i Circuit Court’s decision.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

Jackson explained that two well-established principles prompted the court to reject HHC’s invitation to reimagine the statute and precedent. The court then applied its long-standing two-step analysis to conclude that FNHRA is enforceable through Section 1983. First, FNHRA “unambiguously” confers individual federal rights.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S. Guest post by Jonathan Stroud. Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 7, 2022

This post is an abridged adaptation of my recent article, Private International Law and Substantive Liability Issues in Tort Litigation against Multinational Companies in the English Courts: Recent UK Supreme Court Decisions and Post-Brexit Implications in the Journal of Private International Law. Muir-Watt (ibid) 386).

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 3, 2022

courts interpret choice-of-law clauses. That paper contains a detailed discussion of the most common interpretive issues—whether the clause selects the tort laws of the chosen jurisdiction in addition to its contract laws, for example—that arise in litigation. I argued for the laws at the time of litigation.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 27, 2023

She’s a litigation paralegal at Heygood, Orr & Pearson (no relation to me). Litigation Paralegal Boot Camp Are you still waiting for on-the-job training that takes you through each phase of a litigation case and shows you what you can do to support your attorneys? In this blog, I’m interviewing Jessie Foss.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 27, 2024

The rules regarding service outside the jurisdiction are about to change for the Supreme Court of Western Australia. In a March notice to practitioners , the Chief Justice informed the profession that the Supreme Court Amendment Rules 2024 (WA ) ( Amendment Rules ) were published on the WA legislation website on 26 March 2024.

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Day on Torts

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

When a litigant has filed a motion to dismiss pursuant to the Tennessee Public Participation Act (TPPA), that motion should be analyzed under the provisions of the TPPA rather than under the traditional Tennessee Rule of Civil Procedure 12 analysis. The Court of Appeals quoted Tenn. In Reiss v. Rock Creek Construction, Inc. ,

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Day on Torts

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

10, 2022), plaintiffs and defendants had been involved in extensive litigation related to a boundary line dispute running between their residential properties. 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.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 29, 2023

For litigants embroiled in cross-border litigation, the anti-suit injunction has become a staple in the conflict of laws arsenal of common law courts. This was the scenario facing the New Zealand High Court in the recent case of Kea Investments Ltd v Wikeley Family Trustee Limited [2022] NZHC 2881.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Wenliang Zhang, Guangjian Tu: Recent Efforts in China’s Ambition to Become a Centre for International Commercial Litigation, 497–531, DOI: 10.1628/rabelsz-2023-0064 The last decade or so has witnessed intensifying efforts by China to reshape its legal framework for international commercial litigation.

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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. .” What is clear is that there is an abundance of evidence to support a tort action even at this early stage. Walgreen Hastings Co.,

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