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Showing posts with label causation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label causation. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Free torts textbook ready for academic year 2024-25

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TORTZ: A Study of American Tort Law is complete and revised for the coming academic year 2024-25. The two-volume textbook is posted for fr...
Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Criminal verdict in Mich. school shooting suggests parent vulnerability to civil negligence claims

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2018 National School Walkout Public domain via Rawpixel The criminal conviction of gun-owning parent Jennifer Crumbley yesterday in the 2021...
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Friday, January 26, 2024

Law immunizes school social worker in teen's suicide

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PickPik A public school social worker is immune from liability in the suicide of a 16-year-old boy, the Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled in...
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

TORTZ volume 2 unpacks duty, causation, damages, introduces nuisance, defamation, privacy

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Tortz volume 2 is now available for affordable purchase from Lulu.com and for free PDF download from SSRN . Tortz volume 2 follows up vol...
Friday, September 8, 2023

Unforeseeability precludes lessor liability for saloon shooting, but court fails to mention 'scope of liability'

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Jernej Furman CC BY 2.0 via Flickr A property owner could not be held liable for the fatal shooting of a musician at a lessee nightclub, th...
Thursday, May 18, 2023

Mass. court affirms big verdict against Big Tobacco

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Autodesigner via Wikimedia Commons CC0 1.0 Last week, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirmed a lung cancer victim's verdic...
Sunday, May 14, 2023

Public records make $363m toxic-tort verdict possible

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Condensed ethylene oxide, a carcinogen. 102% Yield via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 Public records made possible a $363m verdict in a tox...
Monday, April 17, 2023

Malaysian court upholds civil liability for security firm after employee-bodyguard shot, killed own client

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With attenuated liability theories arising from contemporary gun violence proliferating—in lawsuits against parents , schools , sellers , a...
Friday, September 2, 2022

Motel not liable for guest's suicide, court rules, despite family warning of risk, asking for room number

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CC0 1.0 via Wikimedia Commons The Massachusetts Appeals Court yesterday rejected Motel 6 liability for the suicide of a guest. The Septembe...
Friday, July 22, 2022

Court denies police immunity under state tort claims act in death of intoxicated man in protective custody

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Michael Coghlan CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons In a lawsuit over the death of an intoxicated man in police protective custody, the defe...
Thursday, July 21, 2022

Attorneys spell out False Claims Act elements

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Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Pix4free.org via The Blue Diamond Gallery Two attorneys in April endeavored to articulate the elements of clai...
Monday, July 18, 2022

Police negligence suit against BLM organizer goes ahead after La. Supreme Court greenlights duty

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BLM protest in Baton Rouge in 2015 (Alisdare Hickson CC BY-NC 2.0 via Flickr ) A lawsuit against Black Lives Matter organizer DeRay Mckesso...
Sunday, February 28, 2021

State supreme court upends causation in tort law, promising plenty post-pandemic work for lawyers

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" Cause and Effect " by Marina Noordegraaf CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 The high court of Massachusetts, in a 3-2 decision , has effected a se...