Court Rules Litigating Massachusetts Tort 
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
Starting in 2017, cities, counties, and states across the United States have filed claims (see here and here ) in state courts against fossil fuel companies seeking redress for the climate harms their products have caused. Many of these cases asserted nuisance and other tort law claims. Citing Massachusetts v.
SCOTUSBlog
MAY 29, 2025
The court also denied review in 10-time relist L.M. Middleborough , involving a Massachusetts middle-school student who was barred from wearing to school a shirt stating There Are Only Two Genders. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit upheld the schools decision, finding no First Amendment violation. under contract with U.S.
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JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 30, 2023
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. In another June 2023 decision in Munoz v.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
OCTOBER 7, 2019
Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. The court also found that Mann’s lawsuit did not constitute state action and therefore dismissed the writer’s constitutional tort claim.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
JUNE 8, 2021
Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Federal Court Upheld Environmental Review for Forest Thinning Project. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati. and non-U.S.
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