Day on Torts

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

10, 2022), plaintiffs and defendants had been involved in extensive litigation related to a boundary line dispute running between their residential properties. On appeal, dismissal of the trespass claim was vacated due to the trial court applying the wrong intent standard to the tort of trespass. In Barrios v. Simpkins , No.

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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). Often, when the parties are from different jurisdictions, they select a neutral forum and its law.

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Although Tennessee had no case law on this issue, the Court noted that other states have interpreted their own similar laws to mean that “neighborhoods are often considered to constitute communities and implicate matters of ‘public interest’ or ‘public concern’ in the context of anti-SLAPP litigation.” The TPPA, Tenn. Code Ann. §

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Legal Research is Easy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Of course, this is probably why states around the country have enacted things like Tort Claims Acts which are written in favor of government entities and whose sole purpose is to limit liability and protect government employees and the departments they work for.

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Day on Torts

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Whether a plaintiff is considered a trespasser will greatly affect the potential duty owed by defendant, and anyone litigating this issue should read this opinion. . Day on Torts: Leading Cases in Tennessee Tort Law ? Day on Torts: Leading Cases in Tennessee Tort Law? This case was released 3.5 and two others,?

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 10, 2022

Given the power of Big Tech Companies, their enormous financial resources, cross-jurisdictional reach and their global impact on users’ privacy, there are two main litigation challenges for successfully bringing a privacy claim against Big Tech. 3] Secondly, the challenge is how to finance mass claims, involving millions of affected users.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 25, 2023

An Ontology of the In-Between [18th Ernst Rabel Lecture, 2022] [OPEN ACCESS], 433–464, DOI: 10.1628/rabelsz-2023-0063 The conflict of laws can serve heuristically to underscore two established but radically opposing models of modernist legal ordering: multilateralism and statutism. Such a prism is helpful if we want to rethink (as we must!)

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 23, 2018

Climate change nuisance litigation is entering a new and dynamic phase. The decisions on these motions could influence pending and future litigation in the same vein – lawsuits seeking damages, compensation or abatement funds to alleviate the costs borne by local governments to adapt to climate change impacts. By Michael Burger.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 12, 2021

The New York law focuses on an exception under the law if a company “knowingly violated a state or federal statute applicable to the sale or marketing” of firearms. Beretta , the Second Circuit left open what a “predicate statute” might look like for the exception, but it rejected the prior nuisance statute.

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InHouseOps

JULY 16, 2021

As a result, litigation under privacy laws protecting individuals’ biometric information has exploded. Such litigation will likewise continue to grow, as evidenced by the activity of the past few months. In February and early March, four major developments occurred regarding BIPA litigation. In re TikTok Inc.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 8, 2024

And that has implications for tort law, contract law, and property law, because it is less clear in many ways how basic legal principles such as negligence, foreseeability, force majeure, and reasonableness will apply to particular problems. John Kerry, then U.S. You are all climate lawyers now,” he said, “whether you want to be or not.”

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Patently O

MARCH 12, 2021

2008): Because claims delineate the patentee’s right to exclude, the patent statute requires that the scope of the claims be sufficiently definite to inform the public of the bounds of the protected invention, i.e., what subject matter is covered by the exclusive rights of the patent. M-I LLC , 514 F.3d 3d 1244, 1249 (Fed.

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The IP Law Blog

MAY 18, 2023

The issue of whether training an AI tool on existing copyright-protected works constitutes infringement or is fair use is currently being litigated in a number of cases. California also has a common law right of publicity that’s a bit broader than the statute. UMG considers this a violation of copyright law. The first was Midler v.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 12, 2021

It argues that a tort lawsuit brought by foreign victims of climate change against local greenhouse gas emitters could overcome jurisdictional obstacles, notably the local action rule, and proceed in Canada. It is thought to be a significant jurisdictional obstacle in transboundary environmental disputes involving foreign land.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Besides, Spanish courts had jurisdiction because Spain was the place of the domicile of the defendant and the claim was one of unjust enrichment – i.e. a claim in tort –, not one whose subject matter was the existence or scope of a right in rem over a real estate asset. Arguably, it was not necessary to do so.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 12, 2020

After an unsuccessful negotiation, the Committee of Yunchun Village and the Committee Dongpu Village sued Van Overeem to demand the statue’s return both in Fujian Province of China and in Amsterdam of the Netherlands at the end of 2015, [2] fearing that a statute of limitation might bar their case.

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Day on Torts

JANUARY 11, 2021

16, 2020), plaintiff filed suit under the Governmental Tort Liability Act (GTLA) after he was injured in a car accident. Anyone litigating a case where the Public Duty Doctrine might be an issue would be wise to read this opinion and be aware of the multiple other cases it cites. In Kimble v. Dyer County Tennessee , No.

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At the Lectern

JULY 6, 2023

The court also holds that California’s worker’s compensation statutes don’t bar the action. ” “[E]xclusivity provisions bar a third party claim only when proof of an employee’s injury is required as an element of the cause of action,” the court says.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 18, 2023

The jurisdiction and applicable law in the specific case of Bonga spill litigation have been closely followed inter alia by Geert van Calster here. Noteworthy is the detail in which the UK Supreme Court discusses the authorities on the tort of nuisance under the heading ‘4. The case at hand is an appeal on a part of an earlier rulings.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

On applicable law for environmental pollution (Article 7 Rome II), a pinnacle of business and human rights as well as climate change litigation. Predictability is the core ambition, not a particular outcome in litigation. The refusal to provide information per se is not a tort in the sense of Article 7 No. found differently.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Thus, the general rule of the place of tort applies equally to corporations and private individuals. [1] 1] In similar, the advancing principle of party autonomy [2] does not distinguish between corporations and other litigants on its operational level. These are the situations involving claims between the corporate actors (i.e.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 30, 2021

The focus is on the question how tort claims are connected if the contracting partners have agreed on confidentiality terms, in particular under a non-disclosure agreement. He based his claim on tort. Finally, the judgment dealt with the classification of various ancillary measures requested by the Belgian authorities.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 13, 2021

He is facing both criminal and potential tort liability for the tiger incident. The Lacey Act and other federal wildlife statutes could be charged for such conduct. On the tort side, Cuevas is liable for any injuries caused by a wild animal in his possession. However, possession for roaming animals has been litigated.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 14, 2024

No federal statutes explicitly preempt state Climate Superfund laws, and different U.S. No federal statutes explicitly preempt state Climate Superfund laws, and different U.S. It is of note that the precedent concerns common law claims and courts may approach state statutes differently.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 24, 2023

It is cross-posted at Transnational Litigation Blog. But statutes of limitations often begin to run when the original owner discovers the location of the stolen property. But statutes of limitations often begin to run when the original owner discovers the location of the stolen property.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 17, 2025

Konan sued the USPS under the Federal Tort Claims Act, asserting claims under Texas law for nuisance, tortious interference, conversion, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. It reasoned that loss and miscarriage cover intentional acts, as the statute only qualifies transmission with negligent. But the U.S.

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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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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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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 27, 2023

She’s a litigation paralegal at Heygood, Orr & Pearson (no relation to me). Litigation Paralegal Boot Camp Are you still waiting for on-the-job training that takes you through each phase of a litigation case and shows you what you can do to support your attorneys? In this blog, I’m interviewing Jessie Foss.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

This case presents whether a resident deprived of those rights can sue a publicly owned and operated nursing home under Section 1983, which provides a cause of action against government actors who deprive anyone of rights secured by the “laws” of the United States, meaning other federal statutes, including spending clause enactments.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2022

Her heirs have been litigating for more than 15 years over rights to the painting, an Impressionist masterpiece once thought to be lost. Second, the brief draws an analogy to the Federal Tort Claims Act, which subjects the federal government to certain tort claims “in the same manner and to the same extent as a private individual.”

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 31, 2021

Take, for example, the more than 100 cases filed nationally against brand hotelier franchisors beginning in late 2019, for alleged sex trafficking occurring on premise under the same statute. Not only does it ensure media coverage, but it affords litigation advantages over other intentional assault type claims.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 23, 2021

The fatal shooting at Bonanza Creek Ranch already has the makings of a blockbuster tort action. ” The question is not whether but when the first torts lawsuit will be filed. .” What is clear is that there is an abundance of evidence to support a tort action even at this early stage.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

King sued them under the Federal Tort Claims Act and under Bivens v. The district court then invoked nonmutual offensive collateral estoppel to preclude du Pont from disputing key issues involving duty, breach, and foreseeability in other cases in the multidistrict litigation. du Pont de Nemours & Co. 26 conference) King v.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Brownback , involving whether the Federal Tort Claims Act’s “judgment bar,” which bars any claim based on the same subject matter as a dismissed FTCA case, applies when both the actions were originally brought together. The Supreme Court did not grant review in any new cases since our last installment. In Cargill , the en banc U.S.

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 31, 2022

25, 2022), plaintiff filed multiple tort claims against multiple defendants, including libel claims against certain defendants based on their social media statements related to the death of a dog who died while in the care of plaintiff’s dog training business. In Laferney v. Livesay , No. E2021-00812-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 14199150 (Tenn.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 12, 2022

Where disputes crystallise into litigation, a court may be asked to consider what system of law should determine a particular issue. What one system characterises as an issue for the proper law of the contract could be treated as an issue for a forum statute in another. The law applicable to online dignity.

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