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Second Circuit rules that federal inmate’s failure to comply with Connecticut’s certificate of merit requirement in dental malpractice suit under Federal Tort Claims Act does not require dismissal

HowAppealing

Second Circuit rules that federal inmate’s failure to comply with Connecticut’s certificate of merit requirement in dental malpractice suit under Federal Tort Claims Act does not require dismissal: You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit at this link.

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Zantac Cases Must Remain In State Court, Conn. Judge Rules

Law 360

Two groups of patients can continue their lawsuits in Connecticut state court against GlaxoSmithKline LLC, Pfizer Inc. and Sanofi-Aventis US LLC, a judge has ruled, refusing to immediately truncate novel tort claims that seek to connect generic versions of Zantac with cancer.

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Mexico sues US gun manufacturers in federal court over claims of fueling violence

JURIST

The government of Mexico filed a complaint on Wednesday against eight gun manufacturers, holding companies and distributors, alleging tort claims based on a “deadly flood of military-style and other particularly lethal guns” across the border from the US into Mexico.

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Ex-JetBlue Flight Attendant's Subpoena Battle Heads To NY

Law 360

9 in Connecticut to force the airline to turn over subpoenaed documents in an underlying toxic tort case, but the federal court fight is set to continue next door. A former flight attendant for JetBlue Airways Corp. and her husband have dropped a legal battle that they launched Feb.

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Spooky Torts: The 2022 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

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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Spooky Torts: The 2021 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

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. That is the allegation of Waterbury, Connecticut police who say that Jason A. The next scary moment is likely to be in the form of a torts complaint.

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Update: Upcoming Hearings on Motions to Dismiss Climate Change Nuisance Cases in California and New York

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

There are eight other climate change tort cases pending: six alleging nuisance and a variety of other state common law violations in California courts, one claiming state public nuisance along with other state common law and statutory violations in Colorado, and one claiming state public nuisance and trespass in Washington.