Law 360

MARCH 5, 2024

A Philadelphia jury on Tuesday cleared Monsanto of liability in a Pennsylvania cancer patient's suit alleging he developed his illness after using the weed killer Roundup, handing the company its first win in the venue where plaintiffs have won more than $2.5 billion in damages on tort claims over the Bayer AG unit's signature product.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In this case, for example, a European insurance company insured a yacht owned by a Pennsylvania company. The contract, like most American marine insurance contracts, called for the application of New York law.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Arnaud Nuyts , from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, held a Special Course on ‘The Forum for Cyber-Torts’, which is an excellent topic in today’s day and age. He highlighted the diversity of civil cyber-torts, as well as the challenges of locating the torts that are committed on-line.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 14, 2022

United States District Court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Judge John Gallagher (E.D. I have previously written about the continuing questions over the inclusion of the public figures with public officials in tort actions. There is an interesting ruling in Amor v. ruled that Dr. James Amor and Ms.

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JURIST

AUGUST 5, 2021

The government of Mexico filed a complaint on Wednesday against eight gun manufacturers, holding companies and distributors, alleging tort claims based on a “deadly flood of military-style and other particularly lethal guns” across the border from the US into Mexico. Notably, that challenge was not based on the Second Amendment.

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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. It is often said the every dog gets one free bite in American torts. Pennsylvania has a quirky set of laws. Rosenberry v.

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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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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2021

Bill Cosby is a free man after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned the conviction that sent him to jail roughly three years ago to serve 3-10 years for sexual assault. Pennsylvania is not one of them (which is quite surprising). A Pennsylvania man is currently suing in federal court for wrongful conviction.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The appellate court also agreed with the court below that it was not appropriate to recognize a new tort of “intentional investment in abnormally dangerous activities” advocated by the plaintiffs on behalf of future generations. Connaughton , No. 14-35251 (9th Cir.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The recent rape of a woman on a train in Pennsylvania has shocked and disgusted the nation, particularly after passengers did nothing to help the woman as she was allegedly attacked by Fiston Ngoy, 35. I am unaware of such a law in Pennsylvania, but these laws are rarely enforced. In torts, there is no duty to rescue rule.

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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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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

When the squirrel refused to return to the wild, they adopted him as a pet in their home in rural Pine City , near the Pennsylvania border. Peanut even appeared in my torts class this term, posthumously, of course. Peanut then became an internet sensation.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 24, 2020

’Tis the season for the Christmas tort. Thus, each year we gather for the posting of the annual list of Christmas torts and crimes. This year’s Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center had its own inter-species tort when an owl was found in a tree driven from upstate New York. Last year, for example, Curtis L.

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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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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

In celebration of Thanksgiving, I give you our annual Turkey Torts of civil and criminal cases that add liability to libations on this special day (with past cases at the bottom). Indeed, the torts and crimes recorded this year seem painfully reminiscent of this loathsome year. She also threatened another woman with a carving knife.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2021

Philadelphia-based attorney Jerome Marcus told the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania that he was withdrawing because President Trump used him, and his election challenge, to “perpetuate a crime.” In-court statements are generally treated as privileged from defamation actions under tort law).

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; a similar question was presented in 303 Creative LLC v. Monsanto had argued that FIFRA labeling provisions preempted state tort causes of action for failure to warn. Smith , which holds that laws of general applicability that burden religious exercise are not subject to strict scrutiny.

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