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No exception to products liability statute of repose for latent disease or fraudulent concealment.

Day on Torts

Plaintiff filed this products liability suit in November 2020, asserting that defendant, who manufactured, marketed, and sold the original replacement device, “actively and intentionally misled the public, medical community, health care providers, and patients into believing these products were safe and effective.”

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Meeting of the Minds: The Price of Recklessness: Disgorgement of Pro?ts in a Post-Romag World

The IP Law Blog

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. Romag solidi?es Summary of the Supreme Court’s Opinions. We think the latter.

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Spooky Torts: The 2022 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more.

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The Jurisdiction Puzzle: Dyson, Supply Chain Liability and Forum Non Conveniens

Conflict of Laws

The factory where alleged abuses took place manufactured products and components for Dyson products. Reaching this conclusion involved consideration of extensive evidence, including contradictory statements from Malaysian lawyers and civil society organisations.

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Spooky Torts: The 2021 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more.

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TechReport 2022: Practice Management

LawTechnologyToday

Now two years from the “shutdown,” lawyers are slowly returning to normal, or what some now are calling the “new normal.” Multiple monitors allow a lawyer to have multiple windows or apps open at once, obviating the need to ”open a window, cut text, close a window, and paste,” just to name one misuse of time. The ABA Model Rule 1.1

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North Carolina Man Killed After GPS Sends Him Over Destroyed Bridge

JonathanTurley

A tragedy in North Carolina could present rather difficult torts questions in a wrongful death case for a grieving family. While I am not a North Carolina lawyer, the state does not appear ideal for plaintiffs in this type of action and the facts of the case could present other difficulties. In all likelihood, it was a phone-based app.

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