Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 19, 2023

For claims in tort in relation to goods that have caused personal injury, the relevant choice of law rules favoured application of the law of the place of injury. The more difficult question would be whether a statute should be given a wider scope of application than it would receive under bilateral choice of law.

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InHouseOps

JULY 16, 2021

Illinois is not the only state that regulates biometrics, but it is the only state currently whose biometric statute includes a private right of action. A plaintiff need not show any injury from the violation – just the violation itself. General Liability Insurance. Directors and Officers Insurance.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 24, 2022

In teaching torts, we often discuss the vague line between self-defense and retaliation in cases of assault and battery. Simple assault is a disorderly persons offense unless committed in a fight or scuffle entered into by mutual consent, in which case it is a petty disorderly persons offense. 2C:3-5, N.J.S.2C:3-9,

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 10, 2022

A tragedy in North Carolina could present rather difficult torts questions in a wrongful death case for a grieving family. The family is obviously grieving and North Carolina generally allows three years for the filing of a personal injury action under the statute of limitations.

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Blackstone Career Institute

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Students will explore a wide range of topics, including the World Trade Organization, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the Equal Protection Clause, and the Statute of Frauds. Personal Injury and Torts Incarcerated individuals interested in the medical field may want to consider enrolling in our Personal Injury and Torts course.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Hardy 24-587 Issue : Whether the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment authorizes a federal court to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a foreign corporation in a personal injury action arising from an alleged incident and conduct that occurred wholly outside the United States. Nutramax Laboratories, Inc.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Yes, the statute really does have a full cite to the opinion in it. The case involves an insurance company’s attempt to block its insured’s Chapter 11 reorganization plan, which establishes a trust for certain current and future asbestos personal-injury liabilities. Nelson ,…517 U.S. ” (relisted after the Sept.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 25, 2021

The case is brought under statutes like 18 U.S.C. 2255, “Civil Remedy for Personal Injuries,” which provides that any person who is a victim of a violation of child pornography may recover the actual damages or liquidated damages in the amount of $150,000 per victim, and reasonable attorney’s fees. In New York Times v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Horn sued, alleging that the makers of Dixie X had engaged in mail and wire fraud that caused him to suffer injury to “business or property.” Horn’s economic losses, she argued, are the “damages he sustain[ed]” because of that injury. The same result, she argued, should apply here.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 2, 2025

Justice Amy Coney Barretts opinion for a sharply divided court on Wednesday upheld liability for damages to a business or property that flow from personal injury, a win for Horn at this stage. For Barrett, it is wholly irrelevant that an injury to business or property might have been preceded by, or flowed from, a personal injury.

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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

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The result is a wicked brew of negligence, product defects, intentional torts, and every other tort and crime known above the netherworld. So without further ado, here are this year’s spookiest of torts. Both Kelly and Rando sued for torts ranging from assault to intentional infliction of emotional distress.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

Supreme Court held that the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it concluded that its review of the remand order in Baltimore’s climate change case against fossil fuel companies was limited to determining whether the defendants properly removed the case under the federal officer removal statute. May 10, 2021).

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