Day on Torts

APRIL 18, 2024

The following graphs demonstrate the resolution of personal injury, wrongful death, and other tort cases in Blount County, Tennessee during the last six fiscal years ending June 30, 2023. Click on BirdDog’s County Pages , go to the county of choice, and click on Court Statistics. Continue reading

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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. Click on BirdDog’s County Pages , go to the county of choice, and click on Court Statistics. Continue reading

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Day on Torts

JANUARY 16, 2024

There are seven tort cases pending before the Tennessee Supreme Court. Here is a list of the cases and the summary of the holding of the Tennessee Court of Appeals (if applicable) in each case: Style: Williams v. Smyrna Residential, LLC et al. TSC Docket Number: M2021-00927-SC-R11-CV Continue reading

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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. Click on BirdDog’s County Pages , go to the county of choice, and click on Court Statistics. Continue reading

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Chamber backs 3M, argues bankruptcy is fix for mass tort ills.” Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Chamber backs 3M, argues bankruptcy is fix for mass tort ills.” ” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case’ from Reuters has this post about an amicus brief filed Monday in the U.S.

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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. Click on BirdDog’s County Pages , go to the county of choice, and click on Court Statistics. Continue reading

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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. Click on BirdDog’s County Pages , go to the county of choice, and click on Court Statistics. Continue reading

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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. Click on BirdDog’s County Pages , go to the county of choice, and click on Court Statistics. Continue reading

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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. Click on BirdDog’s County Pages , go to the county of choice, and click on Court Statistics. Continue reading

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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. Click on BirdDog’s County Pages , go to the county of choice, and click on Court Statistics. Continue reading

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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. Click on BirdDog’s County Pages , go to the county of choice, and click on Court Statistics. Continue reading

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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. Click on BirdDog’s County Pages , go to the county of choice, and click on Court Statistics. Continue reading

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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. Click on BirdDog’s County Pages , go to the county of choice, and click on Court Statistics. Continue reading

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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. Click on BirdDog’s County Pages , go to the county of choice, and click on Court Statistics. Continue reading

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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. Click on BirdDog’s County Pages , go to the county of choice, and click on Court Statistics. Continue reading

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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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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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Law 360

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

National plaintiffs injury firm Morgan & Morgan PA has filed the highest number of tort suits filed in federal court over the past three years, according to a new report by Lex Machina.

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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

MAY 24, 2022

Where the gravamen of plaintiff’s complaint was his tort claim for defamation seeking unliquidated damages, the chancery court did not have subject matter jurisdiction and the case should have been transferred to circuit court. The trial court denied the motion and ultimately found for plaintiff. In Lowery v.

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JURIST

JANUARY 11, 2022

The US Supreme Court Monday heard oral arguments for Gallardo v. ” The court agreed to hear this case in July 2021. ” The court agreed to hear this case in July 2021. The parties’ lawyers argued their respective points before the Supreme Court for over an hour on Monday.

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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

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. Can English courts hear tortious claims for wrongs allegedly committed by British armed forces and security services during their overseas operations?

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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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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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ABA Journal

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Courts in Georgia and Pennsylvania are named as top "judicial hellholes" for their friendliness to tort plaintiffs in a report by the American Tort Reform…

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Because these claims were based in tort rather than wrongful death, the Court of Appeals ruled that they accrued to the decedent at the time of her fatal injuries and the settlement proceeds should have been distributed to her estate, not to her surviving spouse. On appeal, the trial court was reversed. Continue reading

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HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

“‘Totally Out of Control’ Attorney Fees in Mass Torts Dodge Appellate Review; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued last Thursday. The post “‘Totally Out of Control’ Attorney Fees in Mass Torts Dodge Appellate Review; U.S. ” appeared first on How Appealing.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Courts Tie for No. You can access the American Tort Reform Foundation’s 2023/2024 Judicial Hellholes Report at this link. You can access the American Tort Reform Foundation’s 2023/2024 Judicial Hellholes Report at this link. Courts Tie for No. “‘Nuclear Verdicts’ Again Cited as Ga.,

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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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Day on Torts

JULY 22, 2022

Where plaintiffs filed tort claims related to a car accident, and those tort claims were not compulsory counterclaims in a previous action filed by defendant against plaintiffs based on the same accident, the ruling that plaintiffs’ claims were barred by the doctrine of res judicata was reversed. In Albers v. Powers , No.

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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

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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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

A unanimous Supreme Court on Thursday issued a limited ruling on the Federal Tort Claims Act’s judgment bar. The post Unanimous court issues limited ruling on judgment bar in Federal Tort Claims Act appeared first on SCOTUSblog. The case, Brownback v.

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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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Law 360

AUGUST 24, 2022

The number of COVID-related tort suits filed in federal court peaked in the first quarter of 2021 about a year into the pandemic and has been ebbing steadily in each quarter since, according to a new report by Lex Machina.

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