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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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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. See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102.

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The long conference’s relists

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King sued them under the Federal Tort Claims Act and under Bivens v. The district court then invoked nonmutual offensive collateral estoppel to preclude du Pont from disputing key issues involving duty, breach, and foreseeability in other cases in the multidistrict litigation. du Pont de Nemours & Co. 26 conference) King v.

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State “Climate Superfund” Bills: What You Need to Know

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In the first months of 2024, legislators in four states— Maryland , Massachusetts , New York , and Vermont —have pushed for legislation that would collectively require large fossil fuel producers and refiners to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of state-level climate adaptation infrastructure.

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Does ‘Nirvana’ Lawsuit Undermine Struggle Against Trafficking?

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Take, for example, the more than 100 cases filed nationally against brand hotelier franchisors beginning in late 2019, for alleged sex trafficking occurring on premise under the same statute. Not only does it ensure media coverage, but it affords litigation advantages over other intentional assault type claims.

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This week’s relists: preemption of consumer protection laws, bankruptcy claims, COVID mandates and. Chevron deference again?

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Yes, the statute really does have a full cite to the opinion in it. For insured claims, the insurer would have to seek the same information in litigation on a case-by-case basis. Nelson ,…517 U.S. The California state law at issue in Flagstar Bank v. Kivett , and the New York state law in Cantero v. Chevron deference? 26 and Oct.

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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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