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Showing posts with label damages. Show all posts
Showing posts with label damages. Show all posts
Friday, September 20, 2024

Possibility that 'Titan' victims died instantly works curious disadvantage in tort claims over disaster

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Still image of Titan wreckage from USCG video (below). Hearings over the Titan submersible disaster point to the problem of compensation fo...
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Free torts textbook ready for academic year 2024-25

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TORTZ: A Study of American Tort Law is complete and revised for the coming academic year 2024-25. The two-volume textbook is posted for fr...
Friday, March 8, 2024

Pomeranian isn't a child, but must be shared by separating human parents, court rules in equity

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Pexels , licensed , by Tiểu Bảo Trương (not Teddy Bear) Who's a good boy? A Pomeranian named Teddy Bear will split his time between his ...
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

TORTZ volume 2 unpacks duty, causation, damages, introduces nuisance, defamation, privacy

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Tortz volume 2 is now available for affordable purchase from Lulu.com and for free PDF download from SSRN . Tortz volume 2 follows up vol...
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Mass., EU courts wrestle with requisite harm in defamation, data protection cases

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The vexing problem of proof of damages in defamation and privacy has turned up recently in the Massachusetts Court of Appeals and the Court ...
Friday, September 3, 2021

With Keaton as Ken Feinberg for 9/11 20th, 'Worth' challenges tort norms with study of victim comp

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Worth , a dramatization of Kenneth Feinberg's special mastership of the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund, dropped on Netflix today...
Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Appeals court reviews fundamentals of multiple liabilities in remanding business tort case

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A Massachusetts Appeals Court decision Friday reaffirmed the rule against double recovery, the finality of settlement, and other fundamenta...
Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Recent commentaries ponder privacy in license plates, history of animal identity

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Two blog entries tangentially related to areas of interest of mine crossed my desk this week. CC TV ( Adrian Pingstone CC0 ) Privacy...
Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Oberlin case leaves no doubt, 'racist' accusation is capable of defamatory meaning; Koppel reports

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An Ohio jury in June awarded $44m to a family-owned bakery that proved defamation by Oberlin College in a case of false accusations of rac...
Monday, September 16, 2019

Best friend of teen struck, killed by train may claim negligence without physical injury, appeals court rules

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On a "zone of danger" theory, the Massachusetts Appeals Court last week reinstated the claim of negligent infliction of emotional...
Friday, February 1, 2019

Teachable moment in Torts:
'Complaint alleges mom with dementia dumped outside Long Beach healthcare facility'

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National media this week picked up this story from CBS Los Angeles about a woman suffering from dementia who wound up on the street after w...
Sunday, January 27, 2019

Money can't redeem life, but don't think it doesn't help tort survivors

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When my 1L Torts class studies wrongful death, I take the occasion to challenge the notion that money, based on quantified loss, is necessa...
Tuesday, September 18, 2018

'Have You Seen This Man?': Student newspaper editor on libel hook for campus crime coverage

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A suit for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress (IIED) may proceed against the former editor of the college newspaper...