Day on Torts

JANUARY 11, 2021

16, 2020), plaintiff filed suit under the Governmental Tort Liability Act (GTLA) after he was injured in a car accident. In Kimble v. Dyer County Tennessee , No. W2019-02042-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. According to plaintiff, there was a bad storm the night of the accident and a tree had fallen across the state highway plaintiff was traveling on.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 29, 2023

In fact, Kea had originally advanced a cause of action for abuse of process, claiming that the alleged fraud was an abuse of process of the Kentucky Court. It was not for the English court “to police or to second guess the use of courts of or law in foreign jurisdictions” (at [97]).

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 22, 2022

In its judgment of 25 November 2020 (7 U 147/19), the Higher Regional Court of Brandenburg ruled on special jurisdiction regarding letters of comfort under Article 7 No. Reimann: Human Rights Litigation Beyond the Alien Tort Claims Act: The Crucial Role of the Act of State Doctrine. 1 Brussels I Regulation. a and lit.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This basis requires that a significant connection exist between the cause of action and the foreign court. Such a connection could include the fact that the cause of action arose in the jurisdiction of the foreign court, or that jurisdiction was the place in which the contractual obligation was to be performed.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 19, 2021

This is because – in the language commonly employed in private international law -there would be no real and substantial connection between the cause of action and the jurisdiction of Nigeria and therefore no special reason to justify the exercise of the court’s long arm jurisdiction. Olayiwola (2005) LPELR-806 (SC). [14]

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 21, 2022

In September 2020, eight students and their litigation legal representative (a nun who can legally represent the children in court) filed a climate class action lawsuit in the Federal Court of Australia on their behalf and on behalf of other Australian children. Sharma and Others and its impact for climate litigation in Australia.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 1, 2021

Thus, some of these cases are likely to be the last grants of October Term 2020. That should be all of the new relists for October Term 2020. Among the 24 cases the justices considered at the conference were 14 relisted cases. Two relists involve free exercise cases that the court held while it was reviewing Fulton v. New Relists.

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At the Lectern

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Constitution’s “dormant Commerce Clause” Code of Civil Procedure section 351 , which tolls the statute of limitations for an action against a person who, “after the cause of action accrues, departs from the State.” The court granted review in People v. 328), which restricts probation terms.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The result of the authors’ analyses of Nigerian appellate courts’ cases bordering on the jurisdiction of Nigerian courts in actions in personam arising from causes of action which accrue outside the territorial jurisdiction of the courts is particularly eye-opening. 5] Chukwuma Okoli, (n. 4) above. [6] 8] Owners of M.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

In celebration of Thanksgiving, I give you our annual Turkey Torts of civil and criminal cases that add liability to libations on this special day (with past cases at the bottom). In 2020, the cancelation of parades and the reduction of travel has led to a very different legal profile of holiday mishaps and malfeasance.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

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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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Vollrath: Protection of EU Member States’ Treaties with Third Countries in European Private International Law In a decision from 2020, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom authorised the enforcement of an ICSID-award in the United Kingdom. In terms of legal policy, the trader’s recourse should be abolished. 10 (“unjust enrichment”).

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The First Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court order remanding to state court the State of Rhode Island’s lawsuit that seeks relief from oil and gas companies for climate change injuries allegedly caused by the companies’ actions. On October 27, 2020, the D.C. Chernaik v. Brown , No. S066564 (Or. Rhode Island v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

On June 16, 2021, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a joint motion to dismiss appeals of a November 2020 order vacating U.S. The District of Utah held that the lease suspensions merely maintained the status quo and therefore were not major federal actions subject to NEPA; the conservation groups therefore lacked standing.

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