At the Lectern

JULY 6, 2023

Responding to questions asked by the Ninth Circuit about California law, the court’s unanimous opinion by Justice Carol Corrigan precludes an action alleging a construction worker’s wife contracted COVID from her husband due to his employer’s failure to abide by government health orders at the beginning of the pandemic.

Cause of Action 45

Cause of Action Tort Court Construction 45

Day on Torts

MARCH 22, 2022

E2021-00261-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 678568 (Tenn. 8, 2022), plaintiff’s husband and step-son owned a commercial electrical contracting business. Plaintiff had given her husband authority to act on her behalf in signing this contract, a contract to which he had unlimited access. Bradley , No. internal citation omitted).

Contract 52

Contract Tort Real Estate Cause of Action 52

Conflict of Laws

MARCH 29, 2023

This was the scenario facing the New Zealand High Court in the recent case of Kea Investments Ltd v Wikeley Family Trustee Limited [2022] NZHC 2881. 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.

Court 52

Court Tort Cause of Action Litigation 52

Conflict of Laws

MARCH 22, 2022

Reimann: Human Rights Litigation Beyond the Alien Tort Claims Act: The Crucial Role of the Act of State Doctrine. Even after the Supreme Court’s dismantling of the Alien Tort Claims Act jurisdiction remains possible, though everything depends on the circumstances. Samtleben: Paraguay: Choice of Law in international contracts.

Contract 8

Contract Tort Litigation Litigating 8