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Exclusion of HCLA expert based on locality rule affirmed.

Day on Torts

After deposing Dr. Steege, defendants moved to exclude Dr. Steege on the basis that he was not competent to testify under Tenn. Note: Chapter 49, Section 8 of Day on Torts: Leading Cases in Tennessee Tort Law has been updated to include this decision. Code Ann. § 26-26-115(b). The trial court ruled that “Dr.

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Balenciaga’s Bondage Bears: Company Sues Over the Inclusion of Supreme Court Opinion in Ad Campaign

JonathanTurley

Discovery will allow these contractors to depose Balenciaga officials on their own knowledge and approval of a campaign using the children to market bondage bears. Of course, Balenciaga could view the filing as more of a public relations effort to shift blame rather than any real effort to secure damages from its own contractors.

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Second Circuit Refutes Allegations Involving Law Clerk in Mediaite, Above the Law, and Other Publications

JonathanTurley

The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. The Court has previously discussed the danger to both free speech and the free press is the imposition of tort liability for political or social commentary. Reader’s Digest Association , 443 U.S.

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November 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The court also dismissed defamation and related state tort claims. Vermont Court Said Former Attorney General Could Be Deposed on Use of Private Email Account. In addition, the court found that the company had failed to show that the alleged RICO violations proximately caused injury to its business or property.

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