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. They rule that the cause of action had accrued at the moment when the spilled oil had reached the shore. This was a one-off event and not a continuing nuisance.

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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. In Kimble v. Dyer County Tennessee , No. W2019-02042-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. According to plaintiff, there was a bad storm the night of the accident and a tree had fallen across the state highway plaintiff was traveling on.

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Day on Torts

AUGUST 9, 2021

In general, when the property converted is a negotiable instrument, the damage is done, and the tort is complete when the instrument is negotiated, regardless of the plaintiff’s ignorance of the conversion.” Based on the evidence, the Court affirmed the ruling that plaintiff “possessed a one-half ownership interest in the annuity funds.”.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 23, 2018

The decisions on these motions could influence pending and future litigation in the same vein – lawsuits seeking damages, compensation or abatement funds to alleviate the costs borne by local governments to adapt to climate change impacts. At the moment, it’s pretty messy out there.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 10, 2022

For privacy infringement, previous actions had been brought under the cause of action of breach of confidence [11] , which is a claim in equity and, thus it was unclear whether for such actions jurisdiction lies at the place of where the damage occurs.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. Congress recognized the threat that tort-based lawsuits pose to freedom of speech in the new and burgeoning Internet medium. America Online, Inc., 3d 327, 330-31 (4th Cir.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 19, 2023

More generally, the judgment provides a useful analysis of the interrelationship between statutory interpretation and choice of law, and lends weight to the proposition that product liability is properly governed by the law of the place of supply (or injury). They alleged negligence, breach of s 6 of the CGA and breaches of the FTA.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Successive Nigerian governments across all tiers have made the attraction of foreign investments a cardinal part of their economic policies and have accordingly made deliberate efforts and committed abundant resources to attract foreign investments into Nigeria. [1]

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 17, 2025

Postal Service employees intentionally refused to deliver mail to her properties, causing tenants to move out and costing her at least $50,000 in rental income, plus emotional distress and the hassle of chasing down bills via FedEx. Konan , the government now seeks review. In United States Postal Service v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 1, 2022

Boule considers whether to “extend” the Bivens cause of action to First Amendment retaliation claims and Fourth Amendment claims arising from immigration enforcement near the U.S.-Canada The judicially created Bivens cause of action functions as the counterpart to 42 U.S.C. The federal government’s arguments.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2023

At the same time, the dispute also raises broader questions about whether and when it is appropriate to resolve mass tort cases – that is, lawsuits brought by a group of people who have been harmed in a similar way, such as in a plane crash or by a defective product – through the bankruptcy system. The first is whether Harrington, as the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

This case presents whether a resident deprived of those rights can sue a publicly owned and operated nursing home under Section 1983, which provides a cause of action against government actors who deprive anyone of rights secured by the “laws” of the United States, meaning other federal statutes, including spending clause enactments.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2022

Unbeknownst to the Cassirer family or the German government, the Pissarro was not lost. In 1992, he worked with the Spanish government to establish the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, a museum in Madrid. That question turned on whether California law or Spanish law governed. The full painting. Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum).

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Day on Torts

AUGUST 2, 2021

At that time, Officer Godsey and a 911 operator “casually discussed the situation…[and] no action was taken then to shut down the highway or undertake any other preventative measures.” One of those three exceptions arises when “the plaintiff alleges a cause of action involving intent, malice, or reckless misconduct.”

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LettersBlogatory

AUGUST 23, 2021

” France has an administrative claims process for victims of the Nazis and the Vichy government. It creates an exception to foreign sovereign immunity but does not itself create a cause of action. 1605A, does not just create an exception to immunity but also creates a federal cause of action).

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Day on Torts

DECEMBER 30, 2020

One year and 21 days after the accident, the plaintiff filed this case under Tennessee’s Governmental Tort Liability Act against the county that employed the firefighter, the fire department, and the estate of the firefighter, who was also killed in the accident. Defendants moved to dismiss based on the statute of limitations.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 15, 2023

“The First Amendment should protect the speech of professionals, not empower government to police ‘the content of professional speech,’ and thereby ‘fail to preserve an uninhibited marketplace of ideas in which truth will ultimately prevail.’” A list of this week’s featured petitions is below: King v. Transervice Logistics, Inc.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

United States 24-510 Issue : Whether petitioners negligence claims aris[e] out of … misrepresentation, and thus are barred by Section 2680(h) of the Federal Tort Claims Act , even though petitioners did not personally rely on an alleged misrepresentation. Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Co.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

In my torts class, I teach defamation and often discuss the California retraction law. Both parties agreed that Virginia law would govern on choice of law since Nunes initiated this lawsuit in Virginia. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 22, 2022

As a consequence of its application, all claims are governed by the same applicable law, thereby fostering the effectiveness of collective redress. Lehmann: Locating Financial Loss and Collective Actions in Case of Defective Investor Information: The CJEU’s Judgment in VEB v BP. Unlike the Principles, however, Law No.

Contract 8

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Day on Torts

MAY 3, 2022

A special duty of care can arise in three ways, one of which is when “the plaintiff alleges a cause of action involving intent, malice, or reckless misconduct,” and plaintiff argued that the sheriff’s deputy here engaged in reckless misconduct such that the public duty doctrine did not apply. This opinion was released 8.5

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 19, 2021

This is because – in the language commonly employed in private international law -there would be no real and substantial connection between the cause of action and the jurisdiction of Nigeria and therefore no special reason to justify the exercise of the court’s long arm jurisdiction. Olayiwola (2005) LPELR-806 (SC). [14]

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 21, 2022

The decision was highly regarded as breaking legal grounds and representing a significant shift in climate litigation towards a duty for governments to care about climate harms (see here and here ). The Minister subsequently appealed the decision. The Full Federal Court heard the appeal in October 2021. 2022 Full Federal Court Decision.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 1, 2021

solicitor general on cases the federal government isn’t involved in, the government not infrequently delivers its invited amicus briefs just in time for the court’s last scheduled conference. So it is no surprise to see that three of the new relists involve invited government briefs on a range of subjects. In United States v.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Flindt: Lugano Convention VS national procedural law: How to classify a cause of action between a spouse and a third party The international jurisdiction of courts is being increasingly harmonised within the European Union and also among the EFTA states. However, the relevant provisions are scattered across various legal acts.

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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

Monsanto had argued that FIFRA labeling provisions preempted state tort causes of action for failure to warn. In its brief , the government said that “the United States has reexamined the arguments it made below” “[i]n light of the court of appeals’ decision below and the change in Administration.” Sturgis Public Schools.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

The complaint includes eight claims that range from violations to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Federal Tort Claims Act, a Bivens claim, and Privacy Act. It is very well written, but it will be challenging given the discretionary authority of justice officials in some of these actions.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The Ninth Circuit also found that modification of the injunction due to EPA’s rulemaking action did not threaten separation of powers. The court wrote that ultimately it saw “a greater threat to the separation of powers by allowing courts to pick and choose what law governs the executive branch’s ongoing duties.” California v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

The third-party complaint asserted that while the plaintiffs’ claims were meritless, Statoil, “as well as potentially the many other sovereign governments that use and promote fossil fuels,” must be joined as third-party defendants. Chevron filed similar notices of withdrawal in other cases brought by California localities. Living Rivers v.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Sullivan have long limited tort law where it would undermine the first amendment. If there is a bedrock principle underly- ing the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.” The Court in cases like New York Times v.

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