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Insurance statute did not create private right of action for general contractor

Day on Torts

The Tennessee Supreme Court recently explained the analysis for whether a statute creates a private right of action. In Affordable Construction Services, Inc. Plaintiff general contractor brought this action in chancery court, asserting that it had a private right of action pursuant to a Tennessee statute.

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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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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.

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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.

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Supreme Court gives some anti-SLAPP protection to hospital peer review proceedings

At the Lectern

Joseph Health System , the Supreme Court today holds that the anti-SLAPP statute , which allows for an early screening of claims that could chill constitutionally protected free speech or petition rights, can be used to review some, but not all, causes of action relating to mandatory hospital medical staff peer review proceedings.

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SCOTUS Sides With Death Row Inmate in DNA-Testing Case

Constitutional Law Reporter

According to the Court majority, when a prisoner pursues state post-conviction DNA testing through the state-provided litigation process, the statute of limitations for a 42 U.S.C. The Court next turned to the key issue — when the clock on the two-year statute of limitations began to run. The District Court dismissed Reed’s complaint.

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Government power, from federal agencies to counties, highlights January session

SCOTUSBlog

The statute includes a list of information the government must include – most notably, the time and place of the removal hearing. A noncitizen who does not attend a removal proceeding can be ordered removed as long as written notice has been provided to him under the statute. Tori Madden) The question before the justices on Jan.