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Showing posts with label duty. Show all posts
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Thursday, October 31, 2024

Hospital's radiology contractor must answer negligence claim over patient death, per third-party doctrine

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Saint Vincent Hospital, Worcester, Mass. Terageorge~commonswiki via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 A hospital's radiology contractor ma...
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...
Saturday, February 17, 2024

Foul-ball injuries persist at baseball games

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Pixabay CC0 1.0 via Get Archive The American Museum of Tort Law (AMTL) hosted a Zoom panel Thursday on the problem of foul balls injuring...
Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Criminal verdict in Mich. school shooting suggests parent vulnerability to civil negligence claims

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2018 National School Walkout Public domain via Rawpixel The criminal conviction of gun-owning parent Jennifer Crumbley yesterday in the 2021...
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Friday, January 26, 2024

Law immunizes school social worker in teen's suicide

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PickPik A public school social worker is immune from liability in the suicide of a 16-year-old boy, the Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled in...
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...
Friday, September 8, 2023

Unforeseeability precludes lessor liability for saloon shooting, but court fails to mention 'scope of liability'

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Jernej Furman CC BY 2.0 via Flickr A property owner could not be held liable for the fatal shooting of a musician at a lessee nightclub, th...
Friday, September 2, 2022

Motel not liable for guest's suicide, court rules, despite family warning of risk, asking for room number

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CC0 1.0 via Wikimedia Commons The Massachusetts Appeals Court yesterday rejected Motel 6 liability for the suicide of a guest. The Septembe...
Monday, July 18, 2022

Police negligence suit against BLM organizer goes ahead after La. Supreme Court greenlights duty

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BLM protest in Baton Rouge in 2015 (Alisdare Hickson CC BY-NC 2.0 via Flickr ) A lawsuit against Black Lives Matter organizer DeRay Mckesso...
Monday, June 28, 2021

No duty: Court clears homeowner of liability in fatal shooting that sparked town ban on Airbnb

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Not where the party was: historic Henfield House in Lynnfield, Mass. ( photo by John Phelan CC BY 3.0 ) A homeowner is not liable in the s...
Sunday, February 28, 2021

State supreme court upends causation in tort law, promising plenty post-pandemic work for lawyers

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" Cause and Effect " by Marina Noordegraaf CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 The high court of Massachusetts, in a 3-2 decision , has effected a se...