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Showing posts with label public health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label public health. Show all posts
Monday, April 15, 2024

Town asserting 'full-on assault of stink' wins latest round in nuisance feud with hot-mix asphalt maker

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Quarry and asphalt manufacturing facility in England. Richard Law via Wikimedia Commons GNU 1.2 An asphalt plant that residential neighbors...
Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Educator, law student earns town board appointment

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Sullivan in Weymouth Monday. Used with permission. A student in my first-year Torts class was appointed this week to the Board of Health of ...
Saturday, October 7, 2023

Fitness guru calls on Nigerians to build strength, love

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I don't expect I have many readers in Ilorin, Nigeria. Still, I want to highlight the great work of my inspiring and entrepreneurial fri...
Friday, February 3, 2023

Go Red for Women

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Today, February 3, is National Wear Red Day , a project of the American Heart Association (AHA) to commemorate American Heart Month and ra...
Sunday, July 3, 2022

Good riddance, covid immigration testing

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I took this photo in Swansea, Mass., back in January 2022 ( CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 RJ Peltz-Steele). The sign well summed up how I was feeling abo...
Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Unregulated, 'Dark Waters' chemicals persist in cookware, clothing, sickening people, environment

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Comedian and social critic John Oliver's latest top story on HBO's Last Night concerned PFAS, the artificial chemical substances b...
Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Scholar in torts, comparative law publishes book on Chinese law, article on slow WHO pandemic response

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Professor Chenglin Liu has completed two new and exciting projects of interest to lawyers and legal educators. A torts professor on the fac...
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Court affirms widow's $21m verdict vs. Big Tobacco, upholds punitive damages despite '98 settlement

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Marlboro Red Open Box by Sarah Johnson ( CC BY 2.0 ) The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court today affirmed a $21m verdict against Phili...
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...
Friday, May 15, 2020

Legal attacks on lockdown mount; R.I. Governor's time will run out, report warns

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Persons entering Rhode Island remain subject to 14-day quarantine in the present phase 1 of reopening. Photo by Taber Andrew Bain CC...
Wednesday, May 6, 2020

In memoriam: Sam Lloyd, TV lawyer 'Ted Buckland'

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Sam Lloyd in 2009 ( BrokenSphere CC BY-SA 3.0 ) Sam Lloyd played Ted Buckland on Scrubs . Lloyd died one week ago, on April 30. Ted ...
Wednesday, April 8, 2020

'Ley contra la pandemia': CFP se extiende a las contribuciones en español

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¡Convocatoria de contribuciones! Los académicos, estudiantes, profesionales, todas las disciplinas, todas las naciones, están invitado...
Thursday, April 2, 2020

Doctor's blog briefs COVID-19, medmal, learned intermediary doctrine, and addiction in legal profession

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Like you, likely, I am at home.  And one thing I can tell you about home:  This ain't Rwanda.  Where I was supposed to be.  Apologies in...
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

CFP: Law Against Pandemic

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Calling contributors! Scholars, students, practitioners, all disciplines, all nations, are invited to contribute articles, commentary,...
Tuesday, March 31, 2020

COVID-19 stresses United States on domestic borders; war analog might foster state solidarity upon federal power

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Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo was recently threatened with a lawsuit by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.  U.S. Air National Guard P...