Court Rules Manufacturing Tort 
SCOTUSBlog
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Although the district court ruled that Sundance had waived its arbitration argument by not making it earlier, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit reversed because of “the absence of a showing of prejudice to Morgan.” United States. Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft v. Ohio, ex rel. Sundance, Inc.
Conflict of Laws
MARCH 17, 2025
One court ( LG Stuttgart, 11.9.2024 – 27 O 137/23 , 18.09.2024 27 O 176/23 ) even considered it sufficient if the consumer was in Germany when opening the bank account with the gaming provider from which the money was then transferred to the games. So far, German courts were hesitant to take this road.
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Conflict of Laws
MARCH 17, 2025
One court ( LG Stuttgart, 11.9.2024 – 27 O 137/23 , 18.09.2024 27 O 176/23 ) even considered it sufficient if the consumer was in Germany when opening the bank account with the gaming provider from which the money was then transferred to the games. So far, German courts were hesitant to take this road.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 10, 2022
A tragedy in North Carolina could present rather difficult torts questions in a wrongful death case for a grieving family. There is also the potential liability of the GPS system, though it is unclear whether he was using an App like Google Maps or a car manufacturer’s system. In all likelihood, it was a phone-based app.
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.
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.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 27, 2024
The First Circuit reversed a trial court that dismissed the case, alleging that the American firearms industry is legally responsible for violence in Mexico. However, as a torts professor, there is a question of whether the tort element of proximate cause could be materially changed in the case. I respectfully disagree.
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