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28 Jul 2010, 1:46 am
Robert Stevens (University College of London) has posted to SSRN Rights and Other Things. [read post]
27 Jul 2010, 4:02 am
As we approach a new year and a new semester of Torts, the (nerdy) mind turns to duty/no-duty cases. [read post]
26 Jul 2010, 5:07 am
According to the New York Law Journal (via law.com), a New York judge has dismissed a suit brought by a teenager against her former classmates for comments made on a Facebook page. [read post]
23 Jul 2010, 2:00 am
If you have not been to New York City recently, you may not be familiar with the Naked Cowboy, a street performer in Times Square who wears only cowboy boots, a cowboy hat, a guitar, and tidy whities. [read post]
22 Jul 2010, 1:31 am
Maurice Stucke (Tennessee) has posted to SSRN When a Monopolist Deceives. [read post]
21 Jul 2010, 2:11 am
I'm quoted in Ohio State's newspaper, The Lantern, on the Erin Andrews suit. [read post]
20 Jul 2010, 2:00 am
Over at Concurring Opinions, Nate Oman offers a "contract chestnut for tort theorists," where he offers a contracts perspective on the corrective justice/civil recourse debate. - SBS [read post]
19 Jul 2010, 2:00 am
The National Law Journal (via law.com) reports that a federal district court judge has thrown out the plaintiff's causation expert in the "popcorn lung" case. [read post]
18 Jul 2010, 10:02 pm
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16 Jul 2010, 1:26 am
John Jeffries (UVa) has posted to SSRN What's Wrong with Qualified Immunity?. [read post]
15 Jul 2010, 7:47 am
The California Medical Board has filed a lawsuit against the Octomom's physician, alleging "gross negligence" in his implantation of a dangerous number of embryos into the 48-year-old woman. [read post]
14 Jul 2010, 2:30 am
Mike Rustad (Suffolk) has posted to SSRN his provocative essay The Endless Campaign: How the Tort Reformers Successfully and Incessantly Market Their Groupthink to the Rest of Us. [read post]
13 Jul 2010, 2:00 am
Bloomberg Businessweek reports that consumers have filed a class action against Johnson & Johnson based on the recall on children's pain and allergy medicines back in April. [read post]
12 Jul 2010, 10:30 am
From David Rosen at the Penn Program on Regulation comes news of a new book, Import Safety: Regulatory Governance in the Global Economy. [read post]
9 Jul 2010, 2:00 am
On last night's "Stossel" on the Fox Business Network, John Stossel focused on tort lawyers. [read post]
8 Jul 2010, 1:28 am
At a recent Casualty Actuarial Society meeting, John Mize, consulting actuary at Towers Watson, told the assembled actuaries that the Affordable Care Act could have a positive effect on medical malpractice. [read post]
7 Jul 2010, 1:54 am
Gregory Keating (USC) has posted to SSRN Is Tort a Remedial Institution?. [read post]
6 Jul 2010, 2:00 am
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has affirmed the dismissal of an American Airlines passenger's false imprisonment suit after being stuck on an airplane for 9 1/2 hours. [read post]
5 Jul 2010, 5:27 am
Stan Abrams at China Hearsay reports that Baidu is the first defendant to have a judgment entered against it under China's new Tort Liability Law. [read post]
2 Jul 2010, 8:38 am
The Supreme Court of Washington ruled yesterday that a 90-day notice requirement in medical malpractice cases violates the separation of powers. [read post]
