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Thursday, October 27, 2016

Let's put democracy out of its misery

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Democracy ain’t all that.   That must be what Reince Priebus has been thinking this year.   The possibility has been on the mind also...
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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Friday, October 7, 2016

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

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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

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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

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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...
Thursday, September 29, 2016

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

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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

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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

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