article thumbnail

No cause of action against employers for take-home COVID

At the Lectern

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.

article thumbnail

Australia High Court hears submissions on Cambridge Analytica data breaches

JURIST

The issues to be addressed include whether a foreign corporation can “carry on business” in Australia if it has no other commercial activities or domestic business and whether the requirement of a “prima facie case” requires evidence that could support inferences sufficient to establish the cause of action.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

UK: Not All Collateral Warranties Are Construction Contracts - Duane Morris LLP

Mondaq

The contractual matrix of commercial construction projects commonly includes collateral warranties. Collateral warranties typically grant a contractual cause of action to third parties.

article thumbnail

Summary judgment based on release of “all persons… from any claim” reversed.

Day on Torts

18, 2024), plaintiff was riding in the passenger seat of a car when the car crashed into fencing and construction materials located in the right lane of the street. Patton & Taylor Enterprises, LLC , No. W2022-01144-COA-R3-CV (Tenn.

article thumbnail

Supreme Court considers truck driver’s RICO case over CBD product that cost him his job  

SCOTUSBlog

Of relevance here, RICO, a federal law initially passed to target organized crime, creates a private cause of action, which allows a person “injured in his business or property” by racketeering activity to recover triple damages. Horn bought Medical Marijuana’s hemp-based Dixie X after reading that it contained CBD but no THC.

article thumbnail

NO FILING A LATE NOTICE OF CLAIM IN THIS TOWN

NewmanFerraraLLP

TOWN LAW DIDN’T PERMIT A LATE FILING After a construction company wasn’t paid for highway repair work it performed for the T own of Pendleton , a lawsuit was filed alleging “breach of contract, unjust enrichment and quantum meruit.” ” And unlike other comparable laws, this statute did not permit a late filing.

article thumbnail

Intentional interference with business relationships under the GTLA.

Day on Torts

Further, while constructing a sewer line, the City inadvertently placed part of the line on plaintiffs’ property. In 2015, plaintiffs decided to build a second restaurant on the empty lot and asked the City to build the promised alleyway, which the City refused to do.

Tort 59