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.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2024

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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Day on Torts

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Further, while constructing a sewer line, the City inadvertently placed part of the line on plaintiffs’ property. This suit followed, asserting several contract and property claims, as well as a tort claim for intentional interference with business relationships. At issue here was Tenn. Code Ann. §

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

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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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

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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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

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. He argued the defendants’ activities amount to torts of public nuisance and negligence, and also raised a novel claim asserting that the defendants have a climate duty.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

.” There are 13 claims: FIRST CAUSE OF ACTION FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT. SECOND CAUSE OF ACTION FOR SLANDER. THIRD CAUSE OF ACTION FOR LIBEL. FOURTH CAUSE OF ACTION FOR FALSE LIGHT. FIFTH CAUSE OF ACTION FOR INTENTIONAL INFLICTION OF EMOTIONAL DISTRESS.

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