ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A civil law breakthrough came in 2021, with the ruling of a Dutch court against Shell. In Smith v Fonterra , decided by New Zealand’s Supreme Court this week, we have perhaps the biggest common law breakthrough. All three of Smith’s claims will now proceed to what may the be first full climate tort claim in a common law jurisdiction.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 24, 2025

While both decisions canvassed other private international law issues, the primary focus of this comment is the Courts approach to construing the scope of dispute resolution clauses. Subsequently, Asiana also pursued actions against GGS and the directors of the Gate Gourmet Group. The chairman was later convicted in Korean proceedings.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Starting in 2017, cities, counties, and states across the United States have filed claims (see here and here ) in state courts against fossil fuel companies seeking redress for the climate harms their products have caused. Many of these cases asserted nuisance and other tort law claims. Chevron Corp. Chevron Corp.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

That is the complaint by two law students (identified only as John Doe and Jane Doe) who allege that they were blackballed for supporting Professor Amy Chua, who was previously discussed as embroiled in a controversy at the school after she defended Justice Brett Kavanaugh. became the subject of pernicious law school gossip.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

1983 and allowing private damages actions to enforce the Federal Nursing Home Reform Act of 1987. FNHRA, a law enacted under Congress’s spending clause powers, requires nursing facilities participating in Medicare and Medicaid to “protect and promote the rights of each resident” as a condition of receiving funds.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 16, 2024

Abiru to the Nigerian Supreme Court and highlighted its significance for the development of Nigerian conflict of laws. Yekini and I in our blog post , clearly stated: “Nevertheless, this is not to suggest that Justice Abiru’s expertise is limited to conflict of laws, nor that other Nigerian judges do not possess expertise in conflict of laws.

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At the Lectern

AUGUST 22, 2024

The economic loss rule generally prohibits plaintiffs from recovering tort damages in cases involving breaches of contract that cause only economic losses. The Ninth Circuit asked the Supreme Court to decide the following question: “Under California law, are claims for fraudulent concealment exempted from the economic loss rule?”

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Day on Torts

MAY 11, 2022

The Court explained: Claimant’s complaint filed in the Claims Commission is a separate and independent action from the complaint against the other parties filed in circuit court. Note: Chapter 46, Section 2 of Day on Torts: Leading Cases in Tennessee Tort Law has been updated to include this decision.

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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 jurisdiction and applicable law in the specific case of Bonga spill litigation have been closely followed inter alia by Geert van Calster here.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 9, 2021

S. _ (2021), the Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Tort Claims Act barred college student James King’s claims of police brutality. He also sued the officers individually under the implied cause of action recognized by Bivens. In Brownback v. King ,592 U. 2676 and precluded him from raising separate claims under Bivens v. .

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Constitutional Law Reporter

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The FCRA also creates a cause of action for consumers to sue and recover damages for certain violations. And Congress may create causes of action for plaintiffs to sue defendants who violate those legal prohibitions or obligations. But under Article III, an injury in law is not an injury in fact.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 10, 2022

Julia H örnle, Professor of Internet Law, CCLS, Queen Mary University of London [1]. By contrast, courts in California and Canada have found a contractual jurisdiction and applicable law clause invalid as a matter of public policy in order to allow a class action privacy claim to proceed against Facebook. [6]

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Day on Torts

MARCH 22, 2022

Justifiable reliance is an essential component of a cause of action for negligent misrepresentation, and until the justifiable reliance element is established, there is no negligent misrepresentation.” Note: Chapter 81, Section 4 of Day on Torts: Leading Cases in Tennessee Tort Law has been updated to include this decision.

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Day on Torts

DECEMBER 8, 2022

It amounted to more than mere denials of the plaintiff’s cause of action and sought affirmative relief under the TPPA including attorney fees and sanctions. Note: Chapter 28, Section 14 of Day on Torts: Leading Cases in Tennessee Tort Law has been updated to include this decision.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

For torts scholars, it has been a bonanza of interesting issues touching on every element of defamation law. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. Restatement (Second) of Torts § 577A(3) (Am.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Written by Orji Agwu Uka, Senior Associate at Africa Law Practice (ALP)*. This is the fifth and final online symposium on Private International Law in Nigeria initially announced on this blog. Those pieces of advice and legal representations would have benefitted greatly from a comprehensive private international law treatise.

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Day on Torts

APRIL 29, 2021

She pointed to a paragraph in the first complaint that stated: “Since this present Complaint is based upon the tort of battery, not negligence, it was not necessary that Defendants be served with a notice of potential claim 60 days before the suit is filed.” This conclusion is most aligned with Tennessee law and public policy.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This is the third online symposium on Private International Law in Nigeria initially announced on this blog. The Nigerian private international law (hereinafter PIL) regime is significantly influenced by the common law. Written by Richard Mike Mlambe, Attorney and Lecturer at University of Malawi- The Polytechnic.

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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. Making all reasonable inferences in plaintiff’s favor here, the Court of Appeals found that the deputy’s actions could be considered operational and that immunity was thus removed under the GTLA, unless a defense applied.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 29, 2023

For litigants embroiled in cross-border litigation, the anti-suit injunction has become a staple in the conflict of laws arsenal of common law courts. In fact, Kea had originally advanced a cause of action for abuse of process, claiming that the alleged fraud was an abuse of process of the Kentucky Court.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 23, 2018

a consolidated case in which Oakland and San Francisco claim that five fossil fuel companies’ production and promotion of fossil fuels constitutes a public nuisance under federal and California common law. BP P.L.C. , Three weeks later, on June 13, Judge John F. BP P.L.C. , At the moment, it’s pretty messy out there.

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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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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. For Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. Congress recognized the threat that tort-based lawsuits pose to freedom of speech in the new and burgeoning Internet medium. Craigslist, Inc. ,

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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. The government also says there are several record-specific reasons to believe Konan should lose.

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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. Six Unknown Named Agents. Canada border.

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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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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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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2022

He sued both Spain and the museum, alleging California common law claims including conversion and unlawful possession of personal property, and sought both damages and the return of the painting. That question turned on whether California law or Spanish law governed. Tompkins , requires the application of state law.

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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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Day on Torts

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Here, the issue was whether the pre-suit notice letter was sent by plaintiff “more than one year after the cause of action accrued and the one-year statute of limitations period began to run.”. Note: Chapter 50, Section 3 of Day on Torts: Leading Cases in Tennessee Tort Law has been updated to include this decision.

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LettersBlogatory

AUGUST 23, 2021

They argued that they had a right of action under 28 U.S.C. 1605(a)(3), which creates an exception to foreign sovereign immunity when the case concerns “rights in property taken in violation of international law.” Their claim did not arise under the ATS or under state law, but under the FSIA itself.

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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

This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether a Washington state law that bars licensed therapists from practicing conversion therapy on children violates the First Amendment. Nineteen other states and the District of Columbia have similar laws. But the 9th Circuit disagreed.

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At the Lectern

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

At its conference yesterday — a double one — the Supreme Court agreed to answer an employment law question for the Ninth Circuit and left in place a preliminary injunction against Uber and Lyft. Other notable actions included: The court granted the petition for review in Hoffmann v. The court granted review in People v.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 19, 2021

This is because it is settled law that the proceedings and judgment of a court which lacks jurisdiction result in a nullity [1]. As the learned authors of “Private International Law in Nigeria” brilliantly summarised, [16] there are at least three reasons for this conclusion. Territorial Jurisdiction of Courts in Nigeria.

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Day on Torts

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The trial court dismissed the action, finding that the settlement of the personal injury case “very clearly intended to foreclose upon any future wrongful death funds related to the mesothelioma litigation,” and the Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal. internal citation omitted).

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

Missouri resident Lance Shockley crashed a pick-up truck belonging to his sister-in-laws fianc into a ditch. Federal law allows the courts of appeals to set their own procedures for certificates of appealability, Missouri explains. He left the truck to seek help for the fianc, slumped over in the passenger seat.

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