ABA Journal

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Courts in Georgia and Pennsylvania are named as top "judicial hellholes" for their friendliness to tort plaintiffs in a report by the American Tort Reform…

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Tort Litigation Litigating Court 124

SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

To offer a bit of background, commercial contracts often include provisions that call for litigation in a particular forum (a forum-selection clause) and for the application of the law of a particular jurisdiction (a choice-of-law clause). In this case, for example, a European insurance company insured a yacht owned by a Pennsylvania company.

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Contract Laws Statute Litigation 109

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. Connaughton , No.

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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. See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102.

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Tort Litigation Litigating Construction 47

JonathanTurley

AUGUST 6, 2021

We have previously discussed animal liability in torts. There is a tragedy in Pennsylvania which could present difficult questions for such cases after Rhoda Wagner, 60, was killed by three pit bulls. If litigated, the state’s nuanced dog liability laws would come into effect. Pennsylvania has a quirky set of laws.

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Tort Litigation Litigating Laws 57

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.

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Tort Litigation Litigating Construction 45

LegalReader

JANUARY 14, 2021

Ikea US Retail LLC is facing a proposed class action in Pennsylvania federal court alleging it carried out a "weak" recall of dressers that are prone to tipping over and have resulted in injuries to and deaths of children.

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Laws Court Tort Litigation 66