California Cause of Action 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.
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.
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JonathanTurley
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
Students at California Lutheran University have filed a federal defamation lawsuit against the school for defamation and false light after the school denounced softball players and coaches as racists for a college skit. ” There are 13 claims: FIRST CAUSE OF ACTION FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT. SECOND CAUSE OF ACTION FOR SLANDER.
At the Lectern
AUGUST 22, 2024
the Supreme Court resolved a question certified by the Ninth Circuit involving the application of California’s economic loss rule. The economic loss rule generally prohibits plaintiffs from recovering tort damages in cases involving breaches of contract that cause only economic losses. Uber Technologies, Inc.
JonathanTurley
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
For torts scholars, it has been a bonanza of interesting issues touching on every element of defamation law. Nunes will be allowed to litigate his claim that Lizza defamed him by claiming that he secretly moved his farm from California to Iowa and linked the move to the alleged use of undocumented labor.
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.
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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