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17 Nov 2009, 2:00 am
As we struggle to come up with final exam ideas, TMZ brings us an interesting proximate cause issue. [read post]
28 Jun 2012, 11:17 pm
On Wednesday, the legislature in New Hampshire voted to override Governor Lynch’s veto of the early offers bill. [read post]
12 Apr 2007, 2:55 pm
Today's NYT has a longish piece about the bankruptcy litigation about a Catholic diocese in California, the fifth in the country to file a bankruptcy petition due at least in part to sexual abuse litigation.... [read post]
9 Oct 2007, 10:56 am
There's been a lot of talk about the New York Times story about the liability changes in Texas, and whether the increase in disciplinary actions coinciding with an increase in doctor licensures should be seen as an indication of a... [read post]
16 Oct 2007, 5:38 am
OnPoint reports that Judge Nancy F. [read post]
28 Oct 2007, 3:41 am
In a piece that explores the alternatives to class certification in mass products cases (where such certifications are almost never appropriate), Byron Steir (Southwestern) suggests in a recent SSRN posting of a 2005 Utah Law Review article the rise of... [read post]
9 Jan 2008, 4:50 am
The New York Times (via Reuters) reports that a new consumer fraud suit has been filed against Sears in Illinois state court. [read post]
24 May 2008, 5:29 am
On Thursday, the New York Times published this laudatory editorial about the effects of apologies for medical errors. [read post]
27 Oct 2006, 5:53 am
You've probably already heard about the Attleboro, Massachusetts, elementary school banning tag and other kinda-sorta-contact sports at recess. [read post]
1 Nov 2006, 3:44 am
Sherry Colb's Writ column has a fairly detailed look at the case to be heard by the Supreme Court on November 6.... [read post]
8 Dec 2006, 4:08 pm
Back in June, I posted an entry about the retraction of an article apparently drafted by an outfit called ChemRisk with funding from Pacific Gas Electric, who was at the same time defending products suits relating to the product at... [read post]
12 Jun 2007, 3:11 am
In an interview on New Hampshire Public Radio, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards commented on tort reform, and proposed that lawyers should be required to seek pre-filing approval of medical cases from a board of experts who have to certify... [read post]
20 Aug 2007, 8:03 am
That's the main message in a story today relating to wrongful death suits arising out of the crash of a Comair airplane in Kentucky a year ago. [read post]
20 Feb 2008, 5:00 am
The Denver Post reports on a study of Colorado's switch from a no-fault auto insurance system to a fault-based system: Two years after the insurance change in 2003, the average annual premium for a car dropped 10 percent to $827... [read post]
13 Apr 2008, 4:58 pm
In a torts exam come to life, a woman is suing PetSmart after her husband received a liver from a woman who had been infected by a hamster adopted from PetSmart. [read post]
19 Nov 2008, 4:42 pm
You can see a chat with Diana Levine, the plaintiff whose case frames the preemption issue in Wyeth v. [read post]
23 Jan 2009, 6:22 am
Symeon Symeonides (Willamette) has posted Choice of Law in Cross-Border Torts on SSRN. [read post]
30 Jan 2010, 12:54 am
Gerard Magliocca (Indiana-Indy), newly installed chair of the AALS section on maritime law, is creating a panel for next year's AALS annual meeting. [read post]
12 Apr 2012, 2:41 am
The Center for Agricultural Law and Taxation at Iowa State is offering a webinar on Monday April 16: On Monday April 16 from noon to 1 p.m. [read post]
30 Jul 2015, 4:20 am
Bob Rabin has posted to SSRN Judge Jack Weinstein and the World of Tort: Institutional and Historical Perspectives. [read post]
