Day on Torts

JANUARY 15, 2022

In the year ending June 30, 2020 (the last period for which information is publicly available) the High Court was asked to accept review in 569 cases. These are the cases where the Court has the discretion whether to hear the case or allow the lower court ruling to stand. Seven of the civil cases are tort cases.

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Day on Torts

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The Court noted that this exact issue had been addressed in a 2020 Court of Appeals case, where the Court stated: “The law in Tennessee is well-established on this issue, and it is not the role of this Court to depart from it.” Accordingly, the Court ruled that, pursuant to Tenn. internal citation omitted).

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Day on Torts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Plaintiff attempted to rely on additional documents referred to in the SCES manual to support a finding of duty, but the Court noted that the Manual specifically referred to these additional documents in an attempt to provide proper pruning methods, not to add to defendant’s contractual duty. internal citations omitted).

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Day on Torts

MAY 31, 2022

When that friend could not find a Tennessee lawyer to take her case before the statute of limitations ran out, he sent her a sample pre-suit notice form. Note: Chapter 45, Sections 3, 9 and 12 of Day on Torts: Leading Cases in Tennessee Tort Law has been updated to include this decision. This opinion was released 3.5

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Day on Torts

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Because of this, the Court held that the HCLA applied “regardless of the theories of liability.”. Plaintiff argued that the misrepresentations negated her consent, making the surgical procedure a medical battery, but the Court ruled that the HCLA still applied. Click on the link to see the book’s Table of Contents.

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Plaintiff argued that Erlanger’s payments to UT were essentially funneled to defendant, but the Court rejected this argument. The Court noted that defendant was not a party to the contract between UT and Erlanger, and that both UT and Erlanger benefited from the affiliation agreement.

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Day on Torts

MARCH 28, 2022

The Court ruled that this response was insufficient and that the statement was thus admitted, explaining: Rule 56.03 Accordingly, the Court ruled that the fact was admitted and defendant could not “be charged with actual notice.”. internal citations and quotations omitted). Summary judgment was therefore affirmed.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 2, 2022

While this case will likely be studied for years, the one verdict in favor of Heard is itself notable because it was based on defamation by counsel — a lesson for lawyers in defending their clients in public. Attorneys are protected by absolute privilege in court in making harmful and even false statements.

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Day on Torts

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Because the TPPA “does not specifically limit a party’s right to obtain a voluntary nonsuit or otherwise relate specifically to the effect of a voluntary nonsuit,” the Court ruled that it was “not the type of ‘statute’ contemplated by the exception stated in Rule 41.01.” (internal citation omitted). internal citation omitted).

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Day on Torts

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The Court noted that it could not locate previous case law interpreting this portion of the Rule, but that the advisory comments stated that this sentence was “thought necessary in light of Tennessee’s adoption of comparative fault.” 2), the trial court did not err in considering the testimony of [plaintiff’s wife].”.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Morrison’s lawyer, Joe Rice, has correctly objected “that the words used by [Morrison] related to a matter of public interest and constituted fair comment.”. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Despite this history, a new decision out of the High Court is still shocking in its implications for further attacks on free speech. The court ruled that newspapers and television stations that post articles on social media sites like Facebook are liable for other third party comments on those posts. Craigslist, Inc. ,

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 12, 2020

According to the information released by the Sanming Intermediate People’s Court (the Court), it formally filed the case on 11 December 2015, which then served the Dutch defendants by international judicial cooperation. 6] Lawyers of both sides were present both at the hearings and the pronouncement of the judgement.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 8, 2022

In 2021, the German Federal Constitutional Court ruled in favor of the petitioners and struck down parts of Germany’s climate law as incompatible with fundamental rights for failing to set sufficient provisions for emissions cuts beyond 2030. In Neubauer, et al.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

ten years ago—at least in part due to longstanding common law rules on champerty, maintenance, [3] and patent law’s relative high risk—today third-party litigation funding (TPLF) [4] undergirds about 30% of all patent litigation, by conservative estimates. [5] Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2] ” Amer.

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The trial court ruled that “Dr. Steege did not meet the locality rule outlined in Shipley v. Merely being licensed in Tennessee or a bordering state is not enough if the expert cannot also meet the locality rule. Steege from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Code Ann. § 26-26-115(b). Williams , 350 S.W.3d 3d 527 (Tenn.

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 31, 2022

When appealing a trial court’s order dismissing or refusing to dismiss a case under the Tennessee Public Protection Act (TPPA), the appeal “must be filed within thirty days of the entry of that order.”. 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

OCTOBER 19, 2021

We also discussed a torts case involving a delay in calling police, but that case involved people who were deemed partially responsible for a death. In 2009, the New York courts ruled that Metro workers were not legally required to assist a woman being raped at a station. In torts, there is no duty to rescue rule.

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Day on Torts

AUGUST 2, 2022

Under the modern discovery rule…, Plaintiffs were on constructive notice of their claim by October 5, 2009. Because plaintiffs had constructive notice of their claim in 2009, the Court ruled that the conversion claim should have been barred by the three-year statute of limitations.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 19, 2021

A claimant seeking to serve a defendant within jurisdiction by substituted means must seek and obtain an order of court to serve the defendant by a specific means as stated in the relevant court rules. Olayiwola (2005) LPELR-806 (SC). [14]

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 10, 2022

A tragedy in North Carolina could present rather difficult torts questions in a wrongful death case for a grieving family. While I am not a North Carolina lawyer, the state does not appear ideal for plaintiffs in this type of action and the facts of the case could present other difficulties.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

The court ruled that Georgia’s prior citizen’s arrest law is only applicable if a person sees a felony committed and acts without delay. The ruling could be “outcome determinative” in the case by stripping away the core defense that these men were chasing a person suspected of a series of crimes over the last year.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

However, he was then found guilty in a torts lawsuit brought by the Goldman family and ordered to pay $33.5 The risk of such torts actions is that they proceed under a lower standard of proof. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 10, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday put a bankruptcy plan for Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of the highly addictive opioid painkiller OxyContin, on hold while it reviews a challenge to the legality of the plan, which would shield the Sackler family, the owners of the drug company, from lawsuits. There were no recorded dissents.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It is no accident that the Irish not only brought Halloween to the United States (as part of the festival of Samhain) but flooded our state bars with Irish lawyers eager to bring lawsuits over Halloween mishaps. So without further ado, here are this year’s spookiest of torts. follow the rules.”She

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 27, 2021

The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. The Court sought to create “breathing space” for the media by articulating that standard that now applies to both public officials and public figures.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 31, 2021

As someone who has taught defamation torts for thirty years, the Trump Administration has been a bonanza of such cases and controversies. The group participated a disgraceful campaign of intimidation against lawyers and law firms that began soon after the election, including alleged efforts to dox or troll people with opposing views.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The lawsuit strikes me as meritless under governing tort doctrines. Torts cases of defamation often turn common understanding of such expression as jokes or opinion. The lawsuit not only contradicts governing case law but threatens constitutional protections for free speech and the free press in seeking such tort relief.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

In addition, the court found that the company had failed to show that the alleged RICO violations proximately caused injury to its business or property. The court also dismissed defamation and related state tort claims. On October 4 , the federal district court for the Northern District of California vacated the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit rejected Monsanto’s argument that it could not have violated California’s duty to warn because the Environmental Protection Agency had concluded under the labeling provisions of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act that the herbicide did not pose “any unreasonable risk to man or the environment.”

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 5, 2023

The Court was seeking to protect the media from efforts to deter coverage and commentary through the threat of civil lawsuits. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. Bower, 232 Cal.App.3d 3d 1599, 1608 (1991). In Wilkow v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 4, 2022

2001) where a journalist with Forbes was sued for harsh characterizations of a lawyer and his practice. The Court ruled in favor of Butts, and The Saturday Evening Post was ordered to pay $3.06 In addition, many are likely to be treated as opinion. Aspects of the filing are reminiscent of Wilkow v. Forbes, Inc., 3d 552 (7th Cir.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 3, 2021

Indeed, as a torts professor, this could prove the golden age of defamation. Those cases join various cases against figures like Donald Trump, who recently lost a major ruling. That lawyer is former Justice Department official David McGee, who will presumably be filing a libel action against the congressman.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The proposed intervenors had argued that “[t]he public deserves to see documentation of the effort by a tort lawyer to help his tort campaign against by enlisting the New York Office of Attorney General, successfully, if in pursuit of terribly unsuccessful prosecution at a cost, clearly, of millions of taxpayer dollars.”

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JonathanTurley

MAY 23, 2021

” What is most interesting about this lawsuit is how it is arguably meritless under both tort and constitutional law. However, there has been little pushback from a host of lawyers who have spent months calling for sanctions against Republican lawyers for filing lawsuits viewed legally or factually meritless.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2021

attorney Patrick Malone, who previously filed ethics complaints against lawyers representing the Trump campaign or the Republican party. Trump lawyers many view this lawsuit as a greater opportunity than a liability for their client. The 40-page lawsuit was written by D.C. COUNT TWO (Aiding and Abetting Assault and Battery).

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