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19 Mar 2019, 2:21 am
Last Thursday, the Connecticut Supreme Court, in a 4-3 ruling, allowed plaintiff families from the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary shootings to proceed to trial against Remington, the manufacturer of the Bushmaster AR-15 rifle used in the attack. [read post]
18 Mar 2019, 2:18 am
A newly reconfigured Florida Supreme Court and 6 tort reform bills mean the likelihood of tort reform in Florida has increased. [read post]
15 Mar 2019, 2:46 am
Elizabeth Weeks has posted to SSRN Healthism in Tort Law. [read post]
14 Mar 2019, 8:41 am
Marijuana laws are undergoing a rapid transformation. [read post]
13 Mar 2019, 2:07 am
Nathaniel Donahue & John Witt have posted to SSRN Tort as Private Administration. [read post]
12 Mar 2019, 1:13 am
The parents of a 7-year-old Colorado Springs elementary student are suing for injuries she sustained in an after-school science experiment. [read post]
11 Mar 2019, 4:40 am
I am sad to announce the passing of Bill Powers, former president of the University of Texas, dean of the Texas School of Law, and Reporter for the Restatement (Third) of Torts. [read post]
11 Mar 2019, 4:30 am
On Thursday, a jury in Los Angeles reached a $2M verdict against a school district for failing to properly supervise a teacher who had a sexual relationship with a student in 2013, when she was 15 years old. [read post]
7 Mar 2019, 2:08 am
Barbara Pfeffer Billauer has posted two pieces on wrongful life to SSRN. [read post]
6 Mar 2019, 4:35 am
Andy Popper has posted to SSRN Rethinking Feres. [read post]
5 Mar 2019, 4:44 am
Jill Wieber Lens has posted to SSRN Children, Wrongful Death, & Punitive Damages. [read post]
28 Feb 2019, 2:21 am
Earlier this month, I reported that tort reform bills had been filed again in Missouri to alter liberal joinder rules in that state. [read post]
27 Feb 2019, 1:32 am
In 2015, Robert Dear--armed with multiple semiautomatic rifles, a shotgun, and explosives--shot several people in the parking lot of an abortion clinic and then shot through the clinic's windows, wounding several more. [read post]
26 Feb 2019, 1:31 am
The Tenth Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations will take place at Harvard Law School from July 14-17, 2020. [read post]
25 Feb 2019, 2:06 am
Frank Vandall has posted to SSRN Tincher Unmasked. [read post]
21 Feb 2019, 9:28 am
At JOTWELL, Jenny Wriggins reviews Ronen Avraham & Kimberly Yuracko's Valuing Black Lives: A Constitutional Challenge to the Use of Race-Based Tables in Calculating Tort Damages. [read post]
20 Feb 2019, 6:47 am
Two weeks ago, I reported that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court was considering an alteration of venue rules for medical malpractice cases. [read post]
19 Feb 2019, 3:18 am
Ken Abraham has posted to SSRN Plain Meaning, Extrinsic Evidence, and Ambiguity: Myth and Reality in Insurance Policy Interpretation. [read post]
17 Feb 2019, 3:33 pm
Duquesne University School of Law is hosting a two-day conference on artificial intelligence on April 26 & 27, 2019. [read post]
15 Feb 2019, 8:56 am
After a multi-year saga in which ballot initiatives to amend the state constitution were struck down, new bills have been filed in Arkansas. [read post]
