Archived Pages

▼
Friday, October 7, 2016

'Intentional Investment in Abnormally Dangerous Activities'? Not today, Mass. App. says in climate-change suit

›
A Massachusetts appeals panel affirmed dismissal in a climate change-related suit by Harvard students against the university. Almost two y...
Thursday, October 6, 2016

Big Tobacco wins in Mass. trial for medical monitoring

›
Big Tobacco's Philip Morris prevailed in a product liability jury trial in Massachusetts in late September.  Hat tip: Torts Today . Th...
Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Mass. SJC refuses worker-union privilege in civil discovery

›
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court refused to find a worker-union evidentiary privilege in a civil lawsuit by an educator against...
Thursday, September 29, 2016

Guest post: Where is tort (anti)reform in politics now?

›
Alex Nee, a student in my Torts I class, posted to the class website links to Ralph Nader in Harper's (April 2016) and Michael Shammas&...
Monday, September 26, 2016

The NFL and the Dramatic Arts

›
Last week, in The Death of Civil Justice , I mentioned Hackbart v. Cincinnati Bengals, Inc ., 435 F. Supp. 352 (D. Colo. 1977), rev’d &am...
Tuesday, September 20, 2016

The Death of Civil Justice: It Was a Good Run, 900 years

›
Opening panel at Anglia Ruskin University Sports Law 2016: Leonardo Valladares Pacheco de Oliveira, Ian Blackshaw, Tom Serby, Andrew...
Sunday, September 18, 2016

“A Fair Shake for the Sheikh,” or “Cut Qatar Some Slack”: On World Cup 2022

›
My photo at a Qatar Stars League double header in March 2016: Empty stands tell the tale of native public interest in football.  How...