Conflict of Laws

MAY 9, 2025

23-1141 took place in March 2025 before the US Supreme Court. Among the claims for relief are: Negligence, public nuisance, defective condition unreasonably dangerous, negligence per se, gross negligence, unjust enrichment and restitution, violation of CUTPA [Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act], Violation of Mass.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 2, 2022

On 30 September 2022, a US District Court in Boston (Massachusetts, USA) dismissed the case filed by Mexico against the US weapons manufacturers regarding non-contractual obligations (among them, negligence and unjust enrichment). 93A [Massachusetts Consumer Protection Act], punitive damages. Written by Mayela Celis.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Federal Court Found Flaws in New Climate Change Analysis for Wyoming Oil and Gas Leases. The federal district court for the District of Columbia ruled that the U.S. Second, the court concluded that BLM should have calculated and considered total greenhouse emissions, instead of merely relying on comparisons of yearly emission rates.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Connecticut Judge Barbara Bellis Thursday ruled that conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay $473 million in punitive damages on top of a nearly $1 billion verdict handed down last month, for his defamatory statements about the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting. million in damages to other Sandy Hook parents.

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The Crime Report

JULY 28, 2021

on Tuesday offered to pay nearly $33 million to nine families to settle lawsuits that claimed that its marketing of firearms contributed to the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, where 26 people died, reports Reuters. Remington Arms Co. The proposed settlements would provide $3.66

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Federal Court in Rhode Island Allowed Failure-to-Adapt Claims to Proceed. The federal district court for the District of Rhode Island for the most part denied a motion to dismiss a citizen suit asserting that Shell Oil Products US and other defendants (Shell) failed to prepare a terminal in Providence for the impacts of climate change.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 17, 2024

This month the US Supreme Court granted certiorari in the case of Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc., 93A [Massachusetts Consumer Protection Act], punitive damages. At first, a US District Court dismissed the case, which we reported here. However, the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit reversed. Beretta U.S.A.

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