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Defamation case dismissed based on absolute litigation privilege.

Day on Torts

June 2, 2022), defendant had previously been married to one of the plaintiffs, and a final decree of divorce had been issued in their divorce case. Note: Chapter 28, Section 11 of Day on Torts: Leading Cases in Tennessee Tort Law has been updated to include this decision. internal citation omitted).

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Lease interest was not sufficient to establish ownership rights for conversion claim.

Day on Torts

June 9, 2022), plaintiff and defendant husband were in the process of getting divorced. During the divorce proceedings, defendant allegedly asked plaintiff to sign a written agreement to continue the lease, which plaintiff refused to sign because it was “onerous, high risk, and legally ineffective.” internal citation omitted).

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Finding of conversion and fraudulent concealment affirmed where brother signed sister’s name on check

Day on Torts

When defendant and his wife were later divorcing in 2019, the annuity came to light, and the wife informed plaintiff that she had seen a check that appeared to have been endorsed by someone else on her behalf. The Court next analyzed defendant’s claim that the conversion case was barred by the statute of limitations. In Pomeroy v.

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Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 1/2022: Abstracts

Conflict of Laws

Arnold : Artificial intelligence and party autonomy – legal capacity and capacity for choice of law in private international law. The regulative advantages of party autonomy, i.e. efficiency, legal certainty and conflict of laws justice, can be productive in choice of law contracts involving artificial intelligence. Sonnentag/J.

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Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 2/2021: Abstracts

Conflict of Laws

It provides an overview of newly adopted legal instruments and summarizes current projects that are presently making their way through the EU legislative process. Eichel: Choice of Court Agreements and Rules of Interpretation in the Context of Tort or Anti-trust Claims. 1 Lugano Convention 2007 vis-à-vis claims in tort.

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