SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Abbott case arose from a long-running multidistrict litigation against the chemical company DuPont by people who allege that they were injured by the company’s release of a chemical known as C-8, used in the production of Teflon, into the air, landfills, and river near its plant in Parkersburg, West Virginia.

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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]

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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.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The court dismissed the proceedings 11 days after the effective date of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule repealing the Clean Power Plan and finalizing the final Affordable Clean Energy rule in its place. West Virginia v. The court also declined to “create a new tort named abusive litigation.”

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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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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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