Court Rules Massachusetts Tort 
SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 20, 2025
The court also denied the motion by Alabama and 18 other states to bring a case against California and four other states directly in the Supreme Court to block a series of lawsuits against fossil fuel producers, saying that those suits impermissibly sought to dictate interstate energy policy through the aggressive use of state-law tort suits.
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.
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JonathanTurley
MAY 12, 2021
There is a novel comparison that could be drawn to the tort of “loss of chance” in the failure to diagnose diseases. Such torts are allowed even where there was less than a fifty percent chance of survival. courts have found the requirement of at least a 50 percent survivability line to be too severe. In 1983, in Herskovits v.
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
The court also temporarily enjoined two felony riot statutes because they went “far beyond” the State’s “appropriate interest” in criminalizing participation in a riot with acts of force or violence. The court also found that Mann’s lawsuit did not constitute state action and therefore dismissed the writer’s constitutional tort claim.
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 28, 2021
Grimm , leaves in place a lower-court ruling that found that a Virginia school district violated federal law when it barred students from using the restrooms that align with their gender identities. corporations can be sued for violations of the Alien Tort Statute, the law on which the Iraqi plaintiffs were relying, at all.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
JUNE 8, 2021
The court denied, however, Connecticut’s motion for costs and fees, noting that several issues raised by Exxon were novel in the Second Circuit and that many relevant portions of district court rulings in other circuits had not been subject to appellate review until the Supreme Court’s recent decision in the Baltimore case.
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