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16 Dec 2010, 5:50 am
Yesterday's Washington Times contained an article about the effects of the November election regarding federal tort reform. [read post]
15 Dec 2010, 2:03 pm
I have much more to say about that at the New York Daily News online opinion section (& linked at Above the Law, John Hayward/Human Events, Jammie Wearing Fool, Andrew Stuttaford/NRO “Corner”, Chris Robinette/TortsProf, Ira Stoll/Future of Capitalism), and am also quoted in the Reuters coverage. [read post]
15 Dec 2010, 12:50 am
Rank Downloads Paper Title 1 292 Harry Potter and the Trouble with Tort Theory Scott Hershovitz, University of Michigan Law School, Date posted to database: October 7, 2010 Last Revised: November 14, 2010 2 203 Just a Joke: Defamatory Humor... [read post]
14 Dec 2010, 2:00 am
TortsProf's own Chris Robinette is the editor for Volume 6 of the venerable treatise, Appleman on Insurance (Law Library Edition) (Lexis Nexis 2011). [read post]
10 Dec 2010, 2:16 am
My exam's written and now I'm just counting down the days to get to start reading 70 answers. [read post]
9 Dec 2010, 2:00 am
From The Hill: The House this week will consider legislation to modernize the nation's food-safety protections, a top Democrat indicated Tuesday. [read post]
8 Dec 2010, 4:00 am
Aaron Twerski (Brooklyn) and Neil Cohen (Brooklyn) have posted "Resolving the Dilemma of Non-Justiciable Causation in Failure-to-Warn Litigation. [read post]
7 Dec 2010, 5:04 am
At the request of Ken Feinberg, the administrator of BP's compensation fund for the Deepwater Horizon Spill, John Goldberg (Harvard) prepared an analysis of BP's potential liability for economic loss claims under the Oil Pollution Act (OPA). [read post]
6 Dec 2010, 3:15 am
Florida Governor-elect Rick Scott suggested various tort reform measures as part of his campaign, including changes to the state's bad faith laws, immunity for doctors treating Medicaid patients, and changes to the expert witness standards. [read post]
3 Dec 2010, 12:43 am
New Suits Maryland bed bug liability suits (WaPo) Appeals MD: Court of Appeals reinstates a wrongful death suit under FELA, finding the trial judge erred in failing to give an instruction on the inapplicability of assumption of risk. [read post]
1 Dec 2010, 11:52 pm
Earlier this week, Governor Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania vetoed the "stand your ground" expansion of the common-law "castle doctrine. [read post]
1 Dec 2010, 4:30 am
Robinette at the TortsProf blog discussing a word we had never heard before: toxicogenomics. [read post]
30 Nov 2010, 11:25 pm
AALS Torts & Compensation Chair Cathy Sharkey has put together a fantastic panel for the 2011 Annual Meeting in San Francisco. [read post]
30 Nov 2010, 2:00 am
An opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal on Saturday, cleverly titled "1-800-Trial-Bar," described an announcement by Vice President Joe Biden of a government-funded toll-free number for employees to call with unresolved Fair Labor Standards Act or Family Medical Leave... [read post]
29 Nov 2010, 1:54 am
I have spent the better part of the last decade thinking and writing about federal preemption of state common law damages actions, particularly in the products liability context. [read post]
28 Nov 2010, 10:56 am
Josh Freedom duLac of The Washington Post published an article yesterday about liability for bed bugs. [read post]
25 Nov 2010, 10:09 pm
Mary J. [read post]
25 Nov 2010, 12:17 am
Enjoy the day. [read post]
24 Nov 2010, 5:54 am
The woman Charlie Sheen escorted to an event (for a fee of $3,500) on October 25 claims she will file criminal charges and a civil complaint against the actor. [read post]
23 Nov 2010, 2:22 am
John C.P. [read post]
