Litigating Litigation Missouri Tort 
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.
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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JonathanTurley
AUGUST 6, 2021
We have previously discussed animal liability in torts. If litigated, the state’s nuanced dog liability laws would come into effect. It is often said the every dog gets one free bite in American torts. She was watching the dogs for her roommate. The dogs were later euthanized with the consent of the roommate.
SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 16, 2022
Her heirs have been litigating for more than 15 years over rights to the painting, an Impressionist masterpiece once thought to be lost. It eventually travelled to New York and then to Saint Louis, Missouri, where it remained until 1976. Unbeknownst to the Cassirer family or the German government, the Pissarro was not lost.
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
The court also denied review in a case in which the Missouri Department of Corrections claimed it had been deprived of a fair trial in an employment discrimination case because the judge struck potential jurors who had religious objections to homosexuality. The court denied Trevino v. Palmer without comment.
Conflict of Laws
AUGUST 24, 2023
It is cross-posted at Transnational Litigation Blog. After it was taken in Germany, the painting spent some time in California and Missouri and was subsequently sold to Baron Von Thyssen-Bornemisza by a Gallery in New York. As noted, the painting later spent time in California, Missouri, and New York.
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Abbott , involving a challenge to the use of nonmutual offensive collateral estoppel to hold that issues resolved in bellwether tort trials bind the defendant in later cases. The court finally denied review on Nov. 20 in six-time relist E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Remarkably, six petitions still remain from the long conference.
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