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Spooky Torts: The 2022 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

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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Pennsylvania Woman Killed By Roommate’s Three Pit Bulls

JonathanTurley

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.

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Spooky Torts: The 2021 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

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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A quest to reclaim a Pissarro masterpiece hinges on the Erie doctrine

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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.

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Cassirer on Remand: Considering the Laws of Other Interested States

Conflict of Laws

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.

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Holding protest organizers liable for injuries

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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.

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Spooky Torts: The 2023 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

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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