Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Passengers, Australian and non-Australian, want relief under the Australian Consumer Law ( ACL ). They commence representative proceedings alleging breaches of consumer law, and negligence in the Federal Court of Australia. Statute has left little of the common law untouched.

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Intelligize Blog

APRIL 27, 2023

Essentially, the Texas Two-Step refers to a legal maneuver in which a parent company transfers its tort liabilities to a spin-off entity that remains under the parent company’s control. The new entity then files for bankruptcy, shielding the assets of the parent company from litigants’ claims.

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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. A tort action for intentional infliction of emotional distress is likely to fail. The next scary moment is likely to be in the form of a torts complaint.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

The lawsuit commenced by the migrant workers from Nepal and Bangladesh is an example of business and human rights litigation against British multinationals for the damage caused in their overseas operations. The factory where alleged abuses took place manufactured products and components for Dyson products.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Share Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy deal, which will reach the Supreme Court for oral argument on Monday , is just one of many examples of recent unorthodox civil procedure maneuvers in public harms litigation. But can bankruptcy court solve a public health crisis? As William Harrington, the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. and non-U.S. Here are the additions to the U.S. Avista Corp.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The manufacturer of the drug, Purdue Pharma, promoted the drug as less susceptible to abuse, but OxyContin proved instead to be highly addictive. Monday’s oral argument was the latest chapter in four years’ worth of litigation over the efforts to seek a fresh start in the face of the opioid lawsuits. Jackson was still not satisfied.

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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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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

In celebration of Thanksgiving, I give you our annual Turkey Torts of civil and criminal cases that add liability to libations on this special day (with past cases at the bottom). Indeed, the torts and crimes recorded this year seem painfully reminiscent of this loathsome year. The result is a horn of plenty for litigators.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Below is my column in the Hill on New York’s latest gun control measure — and the latest challenge to a New York law. The gun nuisance law is the latest in a long line of mistakes by New York. An example is the recent New York public nuisance law seeking to make gun manufacturers liable for gun crime.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers v. and non-U.S. EPA remanded the standards but did not vacate the rule.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The undocumented migrants who were transferred to Martha’s Vineyard have quickly adopted one common American practice: litigation. Indeed, I teach in torts where an immigrant to the United States filed a tort action for an involuntary inoculation upon entry in O’Brien v. YouTube screengrab. DeSantis.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Second Circuit Rejected New York City’s State Law Climate Claims Against Oil Companies. and non-U.S. ExxonMobil Corp. ,

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Truck Trailer Manufacturers Association, Inc. and non-U.S. Department of Energy , Nos.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. In addition, the First Circuit asked the Maine Law Court also to address whether the CCA impliedly preempted the local ordinance.

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