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Friday, October 7, 2022

Reversal in eldercare case highlights limits of qualified immunity, low injury threshold of intentional torts

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Boston police officer assists an elderly pedestrian in 2014. (Alex Klavens CC BY 2.0 via Flickr ) A dispute over elder care occasioned trea...
Monday, October 18, 2021

Accidental deaths on nonpublic stairways threaten public transit with tort liability in London, Boston

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Canning Town Station in 2020 ( photo by Ewan Munro CC BY-SA 2.0 ) An English court last week exonerated the London Underground of liabili...
Friday, August 20, 2021

Tenth Circuit affirms injunction of Kansas ag gag law

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My dog Rocky (2001-2019) at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve , Kansas, 2009 (RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 ) The Animal Legal Defen...
Wednesday, August 11, 2021

'What is truth?': 8th Circuit wrangles over ag gag

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The Eighth Circuit reached mixed outcomes yesterday in First Amendment review of the Iowa "ag gag" law, upholding a criminal proh...
Monday, September 16, 2019

Best friend of teen struck, killed by train may claim negligence without physical injury, appeals court rules

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On a "zone of danger" theory, the Massachusetts Appeals Court last week reinstated the claim of negligent infliction of emotional...
Friday, July 27, 2018

Nuisance rule for trees rooted in history, reaffirmed by Mass. high court

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In an opinion suitable for textbooks, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court reaffirmed the rule of nuisance that neighbor may not sue ne...