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Showing posts with label tort reform. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tort reform. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 29, 2021

'1,000 Places to Fall to Your Death,' Utah edition, means American tort law hasn't undermined pioneer spirit

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I can't help but check out the tortscape when I travel.  As mentioned last week, I have been traveling recently in Utah.  The sights ar...
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Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Media want anti-SLAPP security while ignoring real harm, and nobody wants to talk about tort dysfunction

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Christian Dorn from Pixabay On April 7, one of my favorite podcasts, WNYC's On The Media (OTM), ran a story , not its first , on anti-...
Wednesday, November 4, 2020

'Super tort' might represent failure of public policymaking, but is only tip of melting iceberg

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First Circuit remands R.I. suit against Big Oil for public nuisance Super Tort ( px her e.com CC0 ) A "super tort" sounds delicio...
Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Court rejects deep-brain-stimulation patient's contract, IIED claims against Boston nonprofit hospital

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A patient dissatisfied with deep-brain stimulation (DBS) to treat her depression could not prevail against her nonprofit hospital, the Massa...
Thursday, October 10, 2019

Planet Money tackles litigation financing, champerty

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One of my long-term favorite podcasts, Planet Money , last week tackled litigation financing.  We talk a lot in Torts in law school about Am...
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Book Review: The Experimental Society by Marshall S. Shapo

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Catching up on reading since the close of the spring semester, I just finished Professor Marshall Shapo’s The Experimental Society (Trans...
Friday, October 14, 2016

'Goliath' bursts onto Amazon scene

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Tonight marks the premiere of Goliath on Amazon TV/Video .  Billy Bob Thornton, a native of Bill-Clinton-"Boyhood Home" Hot Spri...
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