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Showing posts with label evidence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label evidence. 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...
Thursday, September 19, 2024

Spoliation risk shows ill wisdom of state awarding contract to defendant in lawsuit over same project

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The eastbound span of the Washington Bridge remains functional. Jef Nickerson via Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 The state of Rhode Island has found i...
Sunday, July 17, 2022

Chair collapse provides textbook 'res ipsa' facts

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plastic chair by Chris CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr A textbook res ipsa loquitur case is headed back to the trial court since the Massachuset...
Thursday, September 23, 2021

Legislative privilege shields Raimondo records against trucker subpoena in dormant Commerce Clause case

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Toll gantry on a bridge in Washington ( Flickr by Wash. State DOT CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 ) The First Circuit has quashed a subpoena against Rhod...
Friday, February 5, 2021

Court: UK hospital's mishandling of corpse after suspicious death violated human rights convention

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St. James's Hospital is among those managed by the Leeds group ( image by CommsLTHT 2020 CC BY-SA 4.0 ). From the eastern shore of the ...
Thursday, November 7, 2019

Gruesome bone-in-burger case: verdict remanded for reconsideration of 'reptile,' 'golden rule' arguments

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Willis Lam CC BY-SA 2.0 Reversing and remanding an order for new trial in a personal injury-product liability case over a $5 Wendy'...
Thursday, June 7, 2018

Mass. appellate courts render two wrongful death opinions in attenuated duty and causation

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Massachusetts appellate courts have rendered two wrongful death opinions in the last two days, both favoring plaintiffs. In Dubuque v. Cum...
Tuesday, June 5, 2018

'FERPA Close-Up: When Video Captures Violence and Injury'

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With Kitty Cone, Esq. , I've published FERPA Close-Up: When Video Captures Violence and Injury , 70:4 Okla. L. Rev. 839 (2018), availabl...
Thursday, November 2, 2017

Documentary film critically examines 'Deflategate,' exposes science-for-hire industry, Big Sport marketing machine

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At UMass Law School, from left to right: yours truly, sporting a Brady kit gifted by my Torts students, night class of 2018; author, c...
Friday, August 25, 2017

Mass. App. upholds $2.9m 'actual malice' verdict over 'bitter feud' in local politics

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The Range Feud (Columbia Pictures 1931) The Massachusetts Appeals Court today rejected appeal of a defamation verdict.  The case is Van ...
Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Mass. SJC refuses worker-union privilege in civil discovery

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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court refused to find a worker-union evidentiary privilege in a civil lawsuit by an educator against...