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West Virginia Could Have A New Law School. I Wonder Where It Will Rank?

Above The Law

The contracts and torts examples will consist entirely of Casey Hendershot stunts gone awry. The post West Virginia Could Have A New Law School. I Wonder Where It Will Rank? appeared first on Above the Law.

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Fourth Circuit panel divides over whether Shady Grove excuses a Federal Tort Claims Act claimant from having to comply with West Virginia’s certificate of merit requirement for a medical negligence claim

HowAppealing

Fourth Circuit panel divides over whether Shady Grove excuses a Federal Tort Claims Act claimant from having to comply with West Virginia’s certificate of merit requirement for a medical negligence claim: You can access yesterday’s ruling of a partially divided three-judge panel of the U.S.

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Decedent’s personal injury settlement did not become wrongful death proceeds after his death.

Day on Torts

Before his death, decedent filed suit for personal injury and loss of consortium in West Virginia. The Court explained: Here, Decedent brought suit in West Virginia for personal injury and loss of consortium. Decedent was, obviously, still living at the time of his reaching a settlement in the West Virginia litigation. …

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Justices take up Native health care funding cases and a dispute over sentencing guide

SCOTUSBlog

The Abbott case arose from a long-running multidistrict litigation against the chemical company DuPont by people who allege that they were injured by the company’s release of a chemical known as C-8, used in the production of Teflon, into the air, landfills, and river near its plant in Parkersburg, West Virginia.

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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. The next scary moment is likely to be in the form of a torts complaint.

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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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Ye Ole Defamation: Renaissance Faire’s King and Queen Found to be Limited Public Figures

JonathanTurley

I have previously written about the continuing questions over the inclusion of the public figures with public officials in tort actions. The Court also viewed these figures as thrusting themselves into the public eye, voluntarily assuming the risk of heightened criticism. ” Dr. Amor and Ms.

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