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Conflict of Laws
OCTOBER 25, 2023
An Ontology of the In-Between [18th Ernst Rabel Lecture, 2022] [OPEN ACCESS], 433–464, DOI: 10.1628/rabelsz-2023-0063 The conflict of laws can serve heuristically to underscore two established but radically opposing models of modernist legal ordering: multilateralism and statutism. Such a prism is helpful if we want to rethink (as we must!)
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.
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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. Cassirer’s heirs make three main arguments. The museum makes four main arguments. First, the FSIA states (in 28 U.S.C. In Richards v. 1332 and instead created 28 U.S.C. Allstate Insurance Co.
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. Such candies include the main active ingredient linked to the psychedelic effects of cannabis – the plant from which marijuana is derived.
Conflict of Laws
JANUARY 10, 2022
Given the power of Big Tech Companies, their enormous financial resources, cross-jurisdictional reach and their global impact on users’ privacy, there are two main litigation challenges for successfully bringing a privacy claim against Big Tech.
JonathanTurley
JULY 12, 2021
Indeed, its main component — a law allowing citizens to sue gun manufacturers — will be as productive as trying to win the New York Marathon by running furiously in place. The New York law focuses on an exception under the law if a company “knowingly violated a state or federal statute applicable to the sale or marketing” of firearms.
Conflict of Laws
JANUARY 12, 2021
It argues that a tort lawsuit brought by foreign victims of climate change against local greenhouse gas emitters could overcome jurisdictional obstacles, notably the local action rule, and proceed in Canada. It is thought to be a significant jurisdictional obstacle in transboundary environmental disputes involving foreign land.
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