At the Lectern

JULY 21, 2022

Superior Court (2021) 64 Cal.App.5th 5th 549, review granted September 1, 2021, S269608.” ” The court added that if the remedies it approves “are problematic as a matter of policy, the Legislature can be expected to amend the statute accordingly.” ” (See here.).

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The XXIInd volume of the Yearbook of Private International Law (2020/2021) has been released. The National reports section hosts articles on the new Croatian and Uruguayan Private International law Statutes. Thanks to Ilaria Pretelli for the tip-off. . add to this already rich volume.

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Day on Torts

JANUARY 11, 2022

Where plaintiff had filed complaints with the Board of Professional Responsibility (BPR) complaining of the same allegations that allegedly supported her legal malpractice claim, and those BPR complaints were filed more than one year before the legal malpractice suit was filed, summary judgment based on the statute of limitations was affirmed.

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Day on Torts

AUGUST 2, 2021

July 14, 2021), plaintiffs filed suit based on the death of decedent in a fatal one-car accident. Pursuant to the language of the statute, the trial court had held that plaintiffs’ claims could not proceed because they were based on allegations of reckless conduct. In Lawson v. Hawkins County, TN , No. E2020-01529-COA-R3-CV (Tenn.

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 31, 2022

25, 2022), plaintiff filed multiple tort claims against multiple defendants, including libel claims against certain defendants based on their social media statements related to the death of a dog who died while in the care of plaintiff’s dog training business. In Laferney v. Livesay , No. E2021-00812-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 14199150 (Tenn.

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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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Day on Torts

JANUARY 15, 2022

The homeowner appealed arguing that, in limiting her recovery to $3,600, the trial court interpreted the statute too narrowly. Because the trial court properly interpreted the statute, we affirm the trial court’s decision. Permission to Appeal Granted: April 7, 2021. Appellants’ Briefs Filed: May 5, 2021.

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Day on Torts

DECEMBER 20, 2021

10, 2021), plaintiffs were the heirs of decedent, who had previously died of mesothelioma. Note: Chapter 108, Section 3 of Day on Torts: Leading Cases in Tennessee Tort Law has been updated to include this decision. In Welch v. Welch , No. M2021-00081-COA-R3-CV (Tenn.

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Day on Torts

MARCH 30, 2021

Where the other driver in a car accident case died before suit was filed and the plaintiff failed to “timely file his tort action against the personal representative within the applicable statute of limitations,” summary judgment for the personal representative was affirmed. Luethke , No. E2020-00317-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. Code Ann. §

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 8, 2024

And that has implications for tort law, contract law, and property law, because it is less clear in many ways how basic legal principles such as negligence, foreseeability, force majeure, and reasonableness will apply to particular problems. LSEW adopted a similar resolution in 2021. John Kerry, then U.S.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 30, 2021

The focus is on the question how tort claims are connected if the contracting partners have agreed on confidentiality terms, in particular under a non-disclosure agreement. He based his claim on tort. The plaintiff argued that the producer of the car had used illegal software to manipulate the results of the emissions tests.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 6, 2023

She asserted claims in tort and under the Australian Consumer Law ( ACL ) in schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) ( CCA ) against companies behind the ship: Carnival plc and its subsidiary, Princess Cruise Lines Ltd (together, Princess ).

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Day on Torts

APRIL 29, 2021

April 20, 2021), plaintiff was treated by defendant for cancer on her nose. She pointed to a paragraph in the first complaint that stated: “Since this present Complaint is based upon the tort of battery, not negligence, it was not necessary that Defendants be served with a notice of potential claim 60 days before the suit is filed.”

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 10, 2022

6] In England, the dual challenge of jurisdiction and collective actions in a mass privacy infringement claim has presented itself before the English Courts, first in Vidal-Hall v Google before the Court of Appeal in 2015 [7] and in the Supreme Court judgment of Google v Lloyd in November 2021 [8].

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Day on Torts

AUGUST 9, 2021

July 16, 2021), plaintiff and defendant were brother and sister. Further, the trial court found that plaintiff had satisfied the elements of fraudulent concealment such that the three-year statute of limitations was tolled and the case was not time-barred. In Pomeroy v. McGinnis , No. E2020-00960-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. Code Ann. §

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Statute has left little of the common law untouched. The Interaction between a Mandatory Law and an Exclusive Jurisdiction Clause Statutes generally fall into one of three categories (see Maria Hook, ‘The “Statutist Trap” and Subject-Matter Jurisdiction’ (2017) 13(2) Journal of Private International Law 435).

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Constitutional Law Reporter

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

S. _ (2021), the U.S. Moreover, the Court has rejected the proposition that “a plaintiff automatically satisfies the injury-in-fact requirement whenever a statute grants a person a statutory right and purports to authorize that person to sue to vindicate that right.” 323, 349 (1974); see also Restatement of Torts §559 (1938).

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Day on Torts

AUGUST 12, 2021

July 15, 2021), plaintiffs filed an HCLA suit against defendant doctor based on treatment surrounding the birth of minor plaintiff. WTMG is a governmental entity under the definitions in the Governmental Tort Liability Act. In Braylon W. Walker , No. W2020-00692-COA-R3-CV (Tenn.

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LettersBlogatory

AUGUST 23, 2021

In Nestlé , the court held that a “triple-foreign” claim (a foreign plaintiff asserting that a foreign defendant injured him in a foreign country) cannot proceed under the Alien Tort Statute, even if the claim is that a US company aided and abetted the wrong. Credit: Cramos (CC BY-SA). The case of the day is Scalin v.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 18, 2023

The Nigerian landowners’ claim against Shell was thus barred by the limitation periods under applicable Nigerian law ( Jalla and another v Shell International Trading and Shipping Company and another [2023] UKSC 16 , on appeal from [2021] EWCA Civ 63 ). The case at hand is an appeal on a part of an earlier rulings.

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At the Lectern

JULY 6, 2023

The court also holds that California’s worker’s compensation statutes don’t bar the action. Superior Court (2021) 73 Cal.App.5th ” “[E]xclusivity provisions bar a third party claim only when proof of an employee’s injury is required as an element of the cause of action,” the court says. .”

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Contractual” duties of care corresponding with negligence in tort, on the other hand, fall within the scope of the Regulation Rome II. The refusal to provide information per se is not a tort in the sense of Article 7 No. Spickhoff: Contract and Tort in European Jurisdiction – New Developments. found differently.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 23, 2024

Rademacher then analysed whether punitive elements could be found in German tort law. through the Law Reform Act 1934 and the Competition Act 1998), this has not prevented English courts from awarding punitive damages for common law torts such as defamation and trespass to the person, as has been established in Rookes v.

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Day on Torts

APRIL 27, 2021

April 15, 2021), plaintiff was asked to leave the Nashville airport by airport police officers. Code Ann.] § 29-20-205(2).” In Nichols v. Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authorit y , No. M2020-00593-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. internal citations omitted).

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 12, 2020

After an unsuccessful negotiation, the Committee of Yunchun Village and the Committee Dongpu Village sued Van Overeem to demand the statue’s return both in Fujian Province of China and in Amsterdam of the Netherlands at the end of 2015, [2] fearing that a statute of limitation might bar their case. De dr. int. privé(1967). [16]

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LettersBlogatory

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The noncommercial tort exception expressly excludes claims for abuse of process, but Khochinsky had an interesting argument: on the one hand, the DC Circuit said there was no implied waiver because extradition did not involve a judicial request but an executive, diplomatic request, noting that Poland was not even a party to the US extradition case.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Thus, the general rule of the place of tort applies equally to corporations and private individuals. [1] First , internal affairs of corporations tend to be excluded by the various international statutes aiming to harmonise the applicable law rules. [3] These are the situations involving claims between the corporate actors (i.e.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 14, 2024

No federal statutes explicitly preempt state Climate Superfund laws, and different U.S. In a 2021 appellate decision, City of New York v. Chevron , the Second Circuit held that the City of New York could not sue global fossil fuel producers under state tort law for damages caused by fossil fuel emissions outside of its borders.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 29, 2022

Kilborn was later informed that he was the subject of an investigation into “allegations of race based discrimination and harassment” for allegedly “creat[ing] a racially hostile environment for … non-white students between January, 2020 and January, 2021, particularly during your Civil Procedure II course.”.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 9, 2023

In the request for a constitutional review of 2020, the applicants argue that, according to the settled case law of the Polish Supreme Court, Article 1103[7](2) PL CCP does not cover the torts committed by a foreign State to the detriment of Poland and its nationals. In the 2021 judgement in Xero Flor v.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 19, 2021

Eichel: Choice of Court Agreements and Rules of Interpretation in the Context of Tort or Anti-trust Claims. 1 Lugano Convention 2007 vis-à-vis claims in tort. However, with regard to torts and antitrust claims there are rules of interpretation arising from Art. 1 Brussels Ia Regulation/Art. 25 Brussels Ia Regulation itself.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 1, 2021

20-219 , asks whether the compensatory damages available under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and the statutes that incorporate its remedies, such as the Rehabilitation Act and the Affordable Care Act , include compensation for emotional distress. CVSG: 5/25/2021. CVSG: 5/25/2021. Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller P.L.L.C. ,

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 2, 2021

3, January/February 2021, by the American Bar Association. The Court noted that the statute immediately “spells trouble for Fossil and the circuit precedent on which it relies.” 7 While the statute makes willfulness a prerequisite to a pro?ts companies and their lawyers have considered tort litigation in China pointless.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 4, 2022

Hau : Personal involvement as a prerequisite for European tort jurisdiction at the centre of the plaintiff’s interests. The Italian legislator has enacted (2017) a statute according to which the same-sex-marriage concluded by Italian citizens abroad will have the effects of a civil union under Italian law.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 12, 2022

What one system characterises as an issue for the proper law of the contract could be treated as an issue for a forum statute in another. In Australia, an Online Safety Act was passed in 2021, which provided an ‘existing Online Content Scheme [with] new powers to regulate illegal and restricted content no matter where it’s hosted’.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Yes, the statute really does have a full cite to the opinion in it. COVID vaccination mandates and mootness In 2021, President Joe Biden issued an executive order requiring federal executive branch employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of employment, subject to religious and medical exemptions. Nelson ,…517 U.S.

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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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