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US Supreme Court blocks child slavery lawsuit against Nestlé, Cargill

JURIST

The US Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a ruling that allowed several individuals to sue food corporations Nestlé USA and Cargill over child slavery claims, limiting corporate liability under the Alien Tort Statute. The unnamed plaintiffs brought their cases forward under the Alien Tort Statute. In Jesner v.

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Supreme Court Clarifies Scope of Alien Tort Statute

Constitutional Law Reporter

By a vote of 8-1, the Court held that to plead facts sufficient to support a domestic application of the Alien Tort Statute, 28 U.S.C. Where the statute does not apply extraterritorially, plaintiffs must establish that “the conduct relevant to the statute’s focus occurred in the United States. Facts of the Case.

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No cause of action against employers for take-home COVID

At the Lectern

The court also holds that California’s worker’s compensation statutes don’t bar the action. ” “[E]xclusivity provisions bar a third party claim only when proof of an employee’s injury is required as an element of the cause of action,” the court says.

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Court endorses private Section 1983 enforcement of spending clause enactments

SCOTUSBlog

Section 1983 provides a cause of action against any person acting under color of state law who deprives a person of “rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws” of the United States. The sine qua non is incompatibility between Section 1983 enforcement and any enforcement scheme in the statute.

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TPPA Petition to Dismiss Could Not Be Filed After Plaintiff Took Voluntary Dismissal.

Day on Torts

Under Tennessee Rule of Civil Procedure 41.01, “the right of the plaintiff to dismiss the action without prejudice is free and unrestricted except in limited and well-defined circumstances.” 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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Wrong defendants in certificate of good faith caption should have resulted in dismissal.

Day on Torts

Notably, subsection (a)(2) specifically states that the certificate of good faith “must certify that ‘there is a good faith basis for maintaining the action as to each defendant consistent with the requirements of § 29-26-115.” This opinion was released three months after oral arguments in this case.

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Finding of conversion and fraudulent concealment affirmed where brother signed sister’s name on check

Day on Torts

Further, the trial court found that plaintiff had satisfied the elements of fraudulent concealment such that the three-year statute of limitations was tolled and the case was not time-barred. The Court next analyzed defendant’s claim that the conversion case was barred by the statute of limitations. In Pomeroy v. McGinnis , No.

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