Cause of Action Construction Litigation 
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
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
Litigation against major corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters has proven extremely tough. Under New Zealand law, such arguments should be struck out only if they “disclose[] no reasonably arguable cause of action”. 1] See Common Law Claims, Sabin Center Climate Change Litigation Database (accessed Feb.
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Conflict of Laws
MARCH 24, 2025
18] This more narrow construction of the party scope of dispute resolution clauses raises the risk of B manipulating the situation and evading the dispute resolution clause by pursuing claims against C. If this means that there would be parallel litigation across a few jurisdictions, the courts should not shy away from that conclusion. [28]
At the Lectern
JULY 28, 2022
A plastic surgery group filed a cross-complaint against the petitioner alleging causes of action arising from the purchase of a product the petitioner manufactured. ” The plastic surgeons have argued “the parties merely agreed that Boston courts are an alternative forum for litigation.” Inevitable discovery.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
DECEMBER 11, 2020
Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. On November 23, GM announced that it was withdrawing from the litigation. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati.
Conflict of Laws
JUNE 28, 2023
It is cross-posted at Transnational Litigation Blog. But Mallory argued that by registering to do business in Pennsylvania, it had agreed to appear in Pennsylvania courts on any cause of action. He tends to be more skeptical of litigation and court access policies, and he notably did not join Gorsuch’s concurrence in Ford.
LexForti
APRIL 30, 2021
However, a suit for recovery based upon a cause of action that is within the limitation can in no way affect the separate and independent remedy of a winding-up proceeding by somehow keeping the debt breathing. Moreover, an unconditional acknowledgement is enough to ‘furnish a cause of action’ for it implies a promise to pay.
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