Court Litigating Massachusetts Tort 
Conflict of Laws
APRIL 7, 2023
Asser Institute for International & European Law, The Hague Mexico’s ongoing transnational litigation against the firearms industry in U.S. courts is raising important questions of private international law, in particular as regards the application of Mexican tort law in U.S. On appeal in the U.S.
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. The Hawai‘i Circuit Court’s decision.
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JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 30, 2022
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.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
NOVEMBER 1, 2016
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. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. and non-U.S. Here are the additions to the U.S. Pritzker , Nos.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 31, 2021
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. A tort action for intentional infliction of emotional distress is likely to fail. Again, the court agreed.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 22, 2021
The contest apparently occurred in the town of Somerville, Massachusetts on private property with the Lacrosse team called the Jumbos. ” Notably, in considering public policy arguments, the court noted that. ” In any Tufts litigation, the first question is whether any waivers were signed. . However, some do not.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
MARCH 14, 2024
In the first months of 2024, legislators in four states— Maryland , Massachusetts , New York , and Vermont —have pushed for legislation that would collectively require large fossil fuel producers and refiners to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of state-level climate adaptation infrastructure.
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