Conflict of Laws

MAY 18, 2023

The UK Supreme Court ruled that the cause of action in the aftermath of the 2011 Bonga offshore oil spill accrued at the moment when the oil reached the shore. The lower courts and the UK Supreme court agreed with Shell. Four cases in the House of Lords or Supreme Court’ at [17] ff.

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Day on Torts

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Looking to other caselaw analyzing what qualifies as a counterclaim under Rule 41.01, the Court explained: [W]e conclude that Defendant’s TPPA Petition to dismiss and request for attorney fees and sanctions would be considered a counterclaim within the meaning of Rule 41.01. internal citations and quotations omitted).

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Day on Torts

AUGUST 9, 2021

The Court pointed out that even crediting defendant’s assertion that the annuity was meant to be a trust for the mother, to accomplish the purpose of qualifying her for Medicaid she had to be “divested of ownership over the annuity funds,” and plaintiff and defendant as the named owners had equal ownership interest of the annuity.

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Day on Torts

JANUARY 11, 2021

16, 2020), plaintiff filed suit under the Governmental Tort Liability Act (GTLA) after he was injured in a car accident. Based on these findings, the Court ruled that plaintiff had not met the requirements of the first exception to the Public Duty Doctrine. In Kimble v. Dyer County Tennessee , No. W2019-02042-COA-R3-CV (Tenn.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Despite this history, a new decision out of the High Court is still shocking in its implications for further attacks on free speech. The court ruled that newspapers and television stations that post articles on social media sites like Facebook are liable for other third party comments on those posts. America Online, Inc.,

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Day on Torts

AUGUST 2, 2021

Under the public duty doctrine, public employees and governmental entities are shielded “from suits for injuries that are caused by the employee’s breach of a duty owed to the public at large rather than to the individual plaintiff,” unless one of three special duty exceptions applies. internal citation). internal citations omitted).

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 15, 2023

In the same year, a divided Supreme Court ruled in National Institute for Family and Life Advocates v. Washington passed Senate Bill 5722 in 2018 to add conversion therapy for minors to the list of violations for which therapists can lose their licenses. Nineteen other states and the District of Columbia have similar laws.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 19, 2021

The special reasons which must be established by a claimant are contained in the relevant rules of courts. [14] 14] Where none of the conditions outlined in the Rules are met, the courts must refuse the application for leave. Olayiwola (2005) LPELR-806 (SC). [14]

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

In my torts class, I teach defamation and often discuss the California retraction law. and “without an allegation of special damages, the [AC] does not allege a legally sufficient cause of action [for defamation] under California law.” The source was Lev Parnas, a dubious character and long-time associate of Rudy Giuliani.

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Day on Torts

MARCH 30, 2021

Where the other driver in a car accident case died before suit was filed and the plaintiff failed to “timely file his tort action against the personal representative within the applicable statute of limitations,” summary judgment for the personal representative was affirmed. Luethke , No. E2020-00317-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. Code Ann. §

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Day on Torts

MAY 3, 2022

According to the Supreme Court, “[a] negligent act or omission is operational when it is made (1) in the absence of a formulated policy guiding the conduct or omission; or (2) when the conduct deviates from an established plan or policy.” The Court reasoned: We conclude that the acts alleged in the complaint are operational.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

The filing is particularly interesting because it focuses not as much on the BDSM or bondage bears being marketed by Balenciaga, but the inclusion the image of a child pornography court ruling. However, the filing sounds like a negligence-based action. The campaign led to an immediate global backlash : Alison H.Centofante. .”

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

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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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit rejected Monsanto’s argument that it could not have violated California’s duty to warn because the Environmental Protection Agency had concluded under the labeling provisions of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act that the herbicide did not pose “any unreasonable risk to man or the environment.”

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