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Reschedule Watch: Birthright citizenship and torts to members of the armed forces

SCOTUSBlog

United States , the 1950 Supreme Court case holding that the United States is not liable under the Federal Tort Claims Act for injuries sustained by members of the armed forces while on active duty and resulting from the negligence of others in the armed forces. United States. The case involves the so-called Feres doctrine, after Feres v.

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US Supreme Court declines North Carolina appeal in undercover investigations case

JURIST

This argument again focused on “doctrinal uncertainty” in state legislatures on how to construct statutes that do not implicate the First Amendment. Third, the state contended that the case was incorrectly decided. ” None of the arguments persuaded the Supreme Court to weigh in.

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Tort Litigation against Transnational Companies in England

Conflict of Laws

This post is an abridged adaptation of my recent article, Private International Law and Substantive Liability Issues in Tort Litigation against Multinational Companies in the English Courts: Recent UK Supreme Court Decisions and Post-Brexit Implications in the Journal of Private International Law. Muir-Watt (ibid) 386).

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Premises liability summary judgment affirmed based on lack of constructive notice.

Day on Torts

Where premises liability plaintiffs could not show that defendant church, who was renting the property to another church, had constructive notice of a downed power line on the property that had most likely been down for approximately 26 hours, summary judgment was affirmed. In Kelly v. internal citation omitted). internal citation omitted).

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Conversion claim was time-barred due to plaintiffs’ constructive notice of claim.

Day on Torts

In its analysis, the Court of Appeals ruled that plaintiffs had constructive notice of their claim in October 2009. Under the modern discovery rule…, Plaintiffs were on constructive notice of their claim by October 5, 2009. On appeal, this ruling was reversed. Conversion is subject to a three-year statute of limitations. Code Ann. §

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Mentoring New Legal Assistants

Paralegal Bootcamp

In my own defense, the last 25 years of my career has been dedicated to one attorney as a contracted tort litigation paralegal. She worked in larger firms in the downtown Phoenix area for past Presidents of the American Trial Lawyer’s Association specializing in tort law.

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Guest Post: Climate Litigation in Japan: Citizens’ Attempts for the Coal Phase-Out

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

Japan , their case challenging the legality of a governmental approval that allows for the construction and operation of new coal-fired power plants. Through May 2022, all existing climate litigation cases in Japan concern the construction or operation of coal-fired power plants and refer to citizens’ attempts to stop the use of coal.