ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 8, 2024

And that has implications for tort law, contract law, and property law, because it is less clear in many ways how basic legal principles such as negligence, foreseeability, force majeure, and reasonableness will apply to particular problems. See this article by Jim Rossi and J.B. John Kerry, then U.S.

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Legal Research is Easy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Of course, this is probably why states around the country have enacted things like Tort Claims Acts which are written in favor of government entities and whose sole purpose is to limit liability and protect government employees and the departments they work for.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

This case presents whether a resident deprived of those rights can sue a publicly owned and operated nursing home under Section 1983, which provides a cause of action against government actors who deprive anyone of rights secured by the “laws” of the United States, meaning other federal statutes, including spending clause enactments.

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Day on Torts

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Where plaintiff knew her husband was killed in a car accident with a firefighter but did not know all the details regarding how the accident occurred, the one-year statute of limitations began to run on the day of the crash and her GTLA suit that was filed more than one year after the accident was untimely. In Durham v.

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 3, 2022

If a party petitions for dismissal under the TPPA and “makes a prima facie case that they have participated in a protected activity under the TPPA, the court may then dismiss the action against them, unless the responding party establishes a prima facie case for each essential element of the claim in the legal action.” The TPPA, Tenn.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 6, 2023

She asserted claims in tort and under the Australian Consumer Law ( ACL ) in schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) ( CCA ) against companies behind the ship: Carnival plc and its subsidiary, Princess Cruise Lines Ltd (together, Princess ).

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

” The Oklahoma Supreme Court last week struck down a $465 million opioid award against Johnson & Johnson based on a legal theory that has previously been tried and failed against guns. Judge Polster pushed drug makers to settle before clearly establishing legal liability. Yet it leaves the matter far from resolved.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2022

Unbeknownst to the Cassirer family or the German government, the Pissarro was not lost. In 1992, he worked with the Spanish government to establish the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, a museum in Madrid. That question turned on whether California law or Spanish law governed. The full painting. Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum).

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Besides, Spanish courts had jurisdiction because Spain was the place of the domicile of the defendant and the claim was one of unjust enrichment – i.e. a claim in tort –, not one whose subject matter was the existence or scope of a right in rem over a real estate asset.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. However, my students and I often discuss the remarkably wide range of torts that comes with All Hallow’s Eve.

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At the Lectern

JULY 6, 2023

In other words, there’s no legal exposure for employee family member virus exposure. The court also holds that California’s worker’s compensation statutes don’t bar the action. ” The opinion does, however, leave unaddressed some issues that could change the bottom line.

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LettersBlogatory

AUGUST 23, 2021

On the other hand, it is very hard to see why, more than 75 years after the crimes of the Nazis and their French collaborators in France, a foreign national (or more precisely, his or her descendants) should have a legal remedy in a US court, for all sorts of reasons. As with the Germany v. But before the appeal was argued, in Philipp v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. However, there are still some notable additions that raise more legal frights. See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 12, 2021

The third issue of the Journal of Private International Law for 2020 features the following articles: M Teo, “Public law adjudication, international uniformity and the foreign act of state doctrine” Should courts, when applying foreign law, assess the validity or legality of foreign legislative or executive acts therein?

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Day on Torts

AUGUST 9, 2021

Further, the trial court found that plaintiff had satisfied the elements of fraudulent concealment such that the three-year statute of limitations was tolled and the case was not time-barred. The Court next analyzed defendant’s claim that the conversion case was barred by the statute of limitations. In Pomeroy v. McGinnis , No.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 10, 2021

There is a tragic case out of Omaha that has led to a notable decision over tort liability for psychiatrists. Regents of University of California , which I teach in my torts class. There is also an interesting concurring opinion by Justice Jonathan Papik on the broader scope given the statute by the Court. ” Munstermann v.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 12, 2020

This note focuses on the major legal issues that the Chinese judgment dealt with and attempts to analyse the role of private international law that has played. Against this background, the lawsuit before the Chinese court is more important in terms of legal analysis. Summary of Facts.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 23, 2018

The decisions on these motions could influence pending and future litigation in the same vein – lawsuits seeking damages, compensation or abatement funds to alleviate the costs borne by local governments to adapt to climate change impacts. At the moment, it’s pretty messy out there.

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Day on Torts

JANUARY 11, 2021

16, 2020), plaintiff filed suit under the Governmental Tort Liability Act (GTLA) after he was injured in a car accident. In Kimble v. Dyer County Tennessee , No. W2019-02042-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. According to plaintiff, there was a bad storm the night of the accident and a tree had fallen across the state highway plaintiff was traveling on.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 2, 2021

Considering the importance of Chinese manufacturing to global trade, the Chinese legal system and its evolving trademark enforcement system will likely cause companies to get creative. The Supreme Court first looked to the section of the Lanham Act governing remedies for trademark violations, 15 U.S.C. litigation in U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Bankruptcy and its special powers are being used to compensate for what some court filings call the “ failure ” of tort litigation to efficiently and fully resolve all pending claims. Although the statute formally allows for only pre-trial consolidation, 99% of cases consolidated into MDL settle. Trustee argues is different.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 19, 2021

Submission may be express, where the defendant signed a jurisdiction agreement or forum selection clause agreeing to submit all disputes to the courts of a particular legal system for adjudication either or an exclusive or non-exclusive basis. ” [11]. . Leave to Issue and Serve Versus Substituted Service. 1977) 5 SC 181.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In cross-border proceedings, service of legal documents poses particular problems, which are addressed by the European Regulation on the Service of Documents. Contractual” duties of care corresponding with negligence in tort, on the other hand, fall within the scope of the Regulation Rome II. This norm is part of procedural law.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 14, 2024

The Climate Superfund bills have already attracted vicious opposition from the fossil fuel industry and its political allies and, if passed, will inevitably face vigorous legal challenges. No federal statutes explicitly preempt state Climate Superfund laws, and different U.S. In a 2021 appellate decision, City of New York v.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 24, 2023

Supreme Court last summer, the case is now before the Ninth Circuit for decision of the legal question that is likely to be decisive: which law governs? The district court and the court of appeals have so far framed the issue as a binary choice: the governing law on the merits is either that of Spain or that of California.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Jane Cummings has been deaf from birth and is legally blind. In Cummings’ view, Premier’s failure to provide her with an ASL interpreter violated legal prohibitions on disability-based discrimination, including Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (codified at 29 U.S.C. § Cummings primarily communicates in American Sign Language.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 18, 2023

On 10 May 2023, the UK Supreme Court has ruled in one of the cases in the series of legal battles started against Shell in the English courts in the aftermath of the Bonga spill. Noteworthy is the detail in which the UK Supreme Court discusses the authorities on the tort of nuisance under the heading ‘4.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JANUARY 31, 2022

The central issue before the Court in both cases is whether the vaccine mandates should be allowed to move forward while the legal challenges work their way through the lower courts. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration involves OSHA’s vaccine-or-testing regime for all businesses with 100 or more employees.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 30, 2021

It is shown that a mere reinterpretation of the existing Article 5 Rome II Regulation might lead to legal insecurity, and that an addition of the provision is preferable. The focus is on the question how tort claims are connected if the contracting partners have agreed on confidentiality terms, in particular under a non-disclosure agreement.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Yes, the statute really does have a full cite to the opinion in it. It then concluded with respect to the Hymes/Harwayne-Gidansky suit that the Dodd-Frank language quoted above simply codified the pre-existing legal standard and held their claims preempted. Nelson ,…517 U.S. The California state law at issue in Flagstar Bank v.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 19, 2021

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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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The result is a wicked brew of negligence, product defects, intentional torts, and every other tort and crime known above the netherworld. So without further ado, here are this year’s spookiest of torts. Both Kelly and Rando sued for torts ranging from assault to intentional infliction of emotional distress.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. However, my students and I often discuss the remarkably wide range of torts that comes with All Hallow’s Eve. In another June 2023 decision in Munoz v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The First Circuit—like the Fourth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits in other climate change cases—concluded that the scope of its appellate review was limited to whether the defendants properly removed the case under the federal-officer removal statute. California v. 19-17480 (9th Cir. County of Maui v. Sunoco LP , No. 2CCV-20-0000283 (Haw.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Colorado Federal Court Remanded Local Governments’ Climate Case to State Court. The court said the defendants’ argument that the plaintiffs’ state law claims were governed by federal common law appeared to be a matter of ordinary preemption, which would not provide a basis for federal jurisdiction. Rhode Island v. Chevron Corp. ,

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The reason is that these legislative measure are propelled by political rather than legal judgment. I’ve discussed the New York public nuisance law aimed at gun manufacturers, a law that doubles down on a failed legal theory using torts as a substitute for direct legislative bans or barriers.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 15, 2022

Share Under established constitutional law, states may generally not tax or regulate property or operations of the federal government. Congress passed the law after the Supreme Court held that states could not apply workers’ compensation statutes to federal facilities. This principle is known as intergovernmental immunity. Washington.

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