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Showing posts with label common law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label common law. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Consultant panning contractor was not 'improper' interference with lucrative reno deal, court holds

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Rawpixel CC0 1.0 An architect whom homeowners hired to review their bills in multimillion-dollar renovation did not tortiously interfere wi...
Friday, April 14, 2023

South African court upholds common law abuse of process as defense in prototypical anti-enviro SLAPP

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Petitioners demand EU anti-SLAPP legislation in 2022. Ekō via Flickr CC BY 2.0 The Constitutional Court of South Africa upheld the use of...
Thursday, February 23, 2023

Grand juror in Ga. Trump probe says little

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Pres. Trump leaves Marietta, Georgia, in January 2021. Trump White House Archives via Flickr (public domain) The news is ablaze with the &q...
Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Rule of law depends at least in part on how we teach

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Differences in legal education between civil law countries and the United States—and analogous divergence in priorities in the American law ...
Sunday, July 3, 2022

Descendants of slaves imaged in daguerreotypes may sue Harvard for emotional distress, high court rules

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Harvard Yard (Daderot. CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons ) The Lanier family, whose enslaved ancestors were stripped and forcibly photogra...
Thursday, February 25, 2021

Despite lack of statute, anti-SLAPP blocks mining company suit as abuse of process in South Africa

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Coffee Bay is a tourist destination on the Eastern Cape. ( photo by Jon Rawlinson CC BY 2.0 ) Two weeks ago, a South African court recogni...
Sunday, February 7, 2021

Atlas Obscura fills in fuzzy history of title, 'esquire'

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Squire ( NYPL ) Atlas Obscura has an excellent piece on the title "Esquire" and its connection to the American legal profession....

Birth announcement: Ontario court is reluctant parent of new tort of 'internet harassment'

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UNESCO image CC BY-SA 4.0 The tort world is abuzz with a court decision in Ontario that has birthed a new common law cause of action for ...
Sunday, October 18, 2020

Grand jury secrecy is important, but not sacred

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pixy.org ( CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 ) [UPDATE: As I was writing this piece on Friday, the Kentucky court released audio of the grand jury proceeding...
Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Court greats both cautioned us on NYT v. Sullivan

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I'm indebted to Trump Litigation Seminar student Kevin Burchill, who timely unearthed this interview with the late Justices Ruth Bader ...
Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Talk traces 'nuisance' from King Henry I to COVID-19

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Yesterday I had the privilege to present in a lecture series (virtually) at Jagiellonian University (UJ) on the tort of nuisance in Amer...
Tuesday, May 19, 2020

First Amendment right of access to court records is alive and kicking in electronic era

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Developments in the First Amendment right of access to court records were on the menu this afternoon for a continuing legal education pro...
Tuesday, April 7, 2020

First Circuit dismisses Mount Ida student class action, incidentally limits emerging data protection theory

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Holbrook Hall , Mount Ida College, Newton, Mass. John Phelan CC BY 3.0 An angle in a recent First Circuit decision deserves a mention ...
Saturday, March 21, 2020

Customary law undergirds justice systems in Africa: A-courting in Harare

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Outside the "Harare Civil Court" buildings, a discarded sign reads, "Harare Magistrate's Court / Civil and Customary La...