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Smith v Fonterra: A Common Law Climate Litigation Breakthrough

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

Litigation against major corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters has proven extremely tough. Michael Smith brought tort claims against New Zealand’s seven largest GHG emitters, which are collectively responsible for one-third of all New Zealand GHG emissions. As this open-ended definition suggests, public nuisance is a slippery tort.

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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.

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Anti-Suit Injunctions and Dispute Resolution Clauses

Conflict of Laws

Subsequently, Asiana also pursued actions against GGS and the directors of the Gate Gourmet Group. It alleged that the directors were actively involved in the chairmans unlawful conduct and therefore liable in tort under Korean law, and GGS was vicariously liable for their actions.

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"Whoever or Whatever Drafted the Briefs Signed and Filed by Blackburn,"

The Volokh Conspiracy

EV]} "Courts recognize that '[t]he threat of protracted litigation could have an undue chilling effect on the exercise of First Amendment ' Franklin Prescriptions, Inc. As the Pennsylvania Superior Court has held, 'absent a civil cause of action for a particular act, there can be no cause of action for civil conspiracy to commit that act.'

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Spooky Torts: The 2021 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

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. Well, give it enough time and someone will prove you wrong.

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Spooky Torts: The 2022 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

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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Spooky Torts: The 2023 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

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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