California Cause of Action Statute Tort 
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.
SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 16, 2022
In 1951, it was acquired by a California gallery owner, who sold it to a Los Angeles collector. In 2005, after his petition was denied, Claude sued in federal district court in California, where he had lived since 1980. That question turned on whether California law or Spanish law governed. The full painting.
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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
MAY 23, 2018
a consolidated case in which Oakland and San Francisco claim that five fossil fuel companies’ production and promotion of fossil fuels constitutes a public nuisance under federal and California common law. BP P.L.C. , Three weeks later, on June 13, Judge John F. But none of the judges in these cases are bound by those decisions.
At the Lectern
APRIL 14, 2021
Joseph Health System : To what extent, if any, is the initiation and conduct of medical peer review proceedings protected activity under the anti-SLAPP statute? On May 5, the court will hear the following cases (with the issue presented as summarized by court staff or stated by the court itself ): Bonni v. Cable News Network, Inc. ,
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.
Conflict of Laws
JANUARY 10, 2022
By contrast, courts in California and Canada have found a contractual jurisdiction and applicable law clause invalid as a matter of public policy in order to allow a class action privacy claim to proceed against Facebook. [6] The claimant sought to apply the cases on the tort of misuse of private information by analogy.
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. A tort action for intentional infliction of emotional distress is likely to fail. See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102.
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