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Showing posts with label product liability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label product liability. Show all posts
Monday, September 23, 2024

IP, business stories of Tupperware bankruptcy minimize female marketing pioneer, dangers of plastics

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Brownie Wise on Business Week in 1954 via America Comes Alive ; © fair use The Tupperware bankruptcy has been much in the news , though the ...
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...
Monday, January 22, 2024

Recklessness claim in fatal Ford rollover accident allows plaintiff to push past Ga. statute of repose

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"Crash Overview Diagram" by defense expert Donald F. Tandy, Jr. (no. 103 filed Mar. 15, 2022) in Cosper v. Ford Motor Co. (N.D. Ga...
Thursday, August 31, 2023

Wrongful death depends on viability of decedent's action at time of death, Mass. high court rules

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Via Picryl When a statute of limitations precluded smokers' suits against tobacco makers, the smokers' families also could not sue i...
Monday, June 12, 2023

TORTZ volume 1 now available to print on demand

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I'm pleased to announce the publication of TORTZ: A Study of American Tort Law , volume 1 of 2. Hard copies can be printed at Lulu.com ...
Thursday, May 18, 2023

Mass. court affirms big verdict against Big Tobacco

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Autodesigner via Wikimedia Commons CC0 1.0 Last week, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirmed a lung cancer victim's verdic...
Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Flawed instruction on 'reasonable alternative design' requires vacatur of tobacco defense judgment

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Plaintiff's decedent started smoking in the early 1960s, at age 13 or 14, with free samples of Kents. (David Shay CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wiki...
Sunday, July 10, 2022

State AGs back Mexico in suit against gun makers

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Houston gun show in 2007 (M&R Glasgow CC BY 2.0 via Flickr ) In a pattern that has become familiar, the mass shooting in Uvalde causes ...
Saturday, February 26, 2022

Judge Jackson Media Law, Torts Tour: From Big Meat 'COOL' to 'A Love of Food' and 'Everlasting Life'

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[A revised version of this post is available to download as a paper on SSRN .] The Hon. KBJ ( Wikicago CC BY-SA 4.0 ) Profiles of U.S. Circ...