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“‘Nuclear Verdicts’ Again Cited as Ga., Pa. Courts Tie for No. 1 Judicial Hellhole; Cook County, Illinois; California; New York City and South Carolina asbestos litigation ranked second through fifth”

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Courts Tie for No. 1 Judicial Hellhole; Cook County, Illinois; California; New York City and South Carolina asbestos litigation ranked second through fifth”: Everett Catts of The Daily Report of Fulton County, Georgia has this article. Courts Tie for No. “‘Nuclear Verdicts’ Again Cited as Ga.,

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Spooky Torts: The 2022 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

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.

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Spooky Torts: The 2021 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

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.

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An appellate court’s claimed “defiance” in a death-penalty case

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Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. This Friday, the Supreme Court will be considering 196 petitions and applications at its conference. This Friday, the Supreme Court will be considering 196 petitions and applications at its conference.

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Spooky Torts: The 2023 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

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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June 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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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’s decision concerned the interpretation of 28 U.S.C. In addition, the Court cited its decision in Yamaha Motor Corp.,

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“Please Tell Me What I’m Missing Here”: Swalwell Appears to Embrace Medical and Legal Malpractice in Opposition to Parental Rights

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The tweet came in response to South Carolina GOP Sen. Nebraska (1925), the Court struck down a state law prohibiting instruction in German. American torts have long required consent in torts. As the California Supreme Court stated in Cobbs v. As one court explained in Metrick v. Indeed, in Meyer v.

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