The Savory Tort

Shangri-La-La poster at Arlington Drafthouse When a lawyer loses a case, the lawyer moves on. The experience might be quickly forgotten as r...

Google Gemini CC0 Trust seems in short supply in contemporary American culture, and secret surveillance of our children feels unhelpful. At ...

Harvard Yard (Daderot. CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons ) The Lanier family, whose enslaved ancestors were stripped and forcibly photogra...

Photo by Marco Verch ( CC BY 2.0 ) The federal district court in Montana in December refused to dismiss an informational privacy claim ag...

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today upheld a verdict against a lawyer for shocking maltreatment of an employee. mohamed_hassan ( pixabay....

A patient dissatisfied with deep-brain stimulation (DBS) to treat her depression could not prevail against her nonprofit hospital, the Massa...

From 1963 to 1988, patients involuntarily committed to the maximum-security Oak Ridge Mental Health Centre at Penetanguishene, Ontario, were...

Two blog entries tangentially related to areas of interest of mine crossed my desk this week. CC TV ( Adrian Pingstone CC0 ) Privacy...

Medical professionals may be liable for battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress for failing to heed a patient's withdra...

Rue Torte, Île de Gorée, Senegal ( CC BY-SA 4.0 RJ Peltz-Steele) Happy Valentine's Day! Time magazine on the seduction tort, for ...

As the sun sets in the U.S. East, I was prepared to let Halloween slide by on the blog, even though so many great tort-related items perenni...

As reported in my Sandy Hook update a couple of weeks ago, today was the day for Connecticut Supreme Court oral arguments over a discovery ...

Attendees dance during the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender mixer hosted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo Equal Opportunity Leader...

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

Antonio Brown in 2014 (by Brook Ward CC BY-NC 2.0 ) New England news is afire today over the civil lawsuit filed against NFL Patriots ...

In a new article , Kenneth S. Abraham and G. Edward White , University of Virginia Law, argue against the further extension of the First ...

Syria owes more than $300m in wrongful death damages to the family of American journalist Marie Colvin, who was killed while working for the...

National media this week picked up this story from CBS Los Angeles about a woman suffering from dementia who wound up on the street after w...