Laws Manufacturing Statute Tort 
Day on Torts
MARCH 24, 2022
Where plaintiff filed a products liability claim based on a hip replacement device she had received, but her hip replacement occurred more than ten years before her suit was filed, dismissal based on the statute of repose was affirmed. The statute of repose for products liability cases is a hard line with very limited exceptions.
JonathanTurley
JULY 12, 2021
The centerpiece of Cuomo’s plan is a new law to allow victims of gun violence to sue gun manufacturers under a nuisance theory. It is doubtful that Cuomo truly believes that the law will make a significant, if any, impact on gun violence. The new law is written to get around a federal ban on such lawsuits. Of the $138.7
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Conflict of Laws
DECEMBER 19, 2023
The Court held that local consumer legislation – in the form of the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 (CGA) – applies to foreign manufacturers. The decision is of particular interest to New Zealand consumers and manufacturers of goods that are supplied in New Zealand, as well as traders advertising their products to New Zealanders.
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.
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 21, 2021
The company and the Oklahoma justices are right on the law. Public nuisance was originally addressed in England by criminal laws against such offenses as obstructing “the King’s highways.” Yet the torts system has an elaborate and well-functioning system of product liability.
The IP Law Blog
MARCH 2, 2021
es the threat posed to companies that rely on third-party manufacturers. 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. 7 While the statute makes willfulness a prerequisite to a pro?ts
SCOTUSBlog
MAY 3, 2021
The justices also called for the federal government’s views in two cases, but they once again did not act on a closely watched challenge to a Mississippi law that would generally bar abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy. Lower courts struck down the law, and the state has asked the justices to take the case and reinstate it.
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