Saturday, October 25, 2025

Puerto Rico Senate adopts bill to eliminate joint and several liability

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 About two weeks ago, the Puerto Rico Senate approved a bill to undo over 120 years worth of precedents and eliminate joint and several liab...
Friday, October 24, 2025

Nevada Supreme Court abandons "suicide rule" and adopts proximate cause analysis for all suicide cases

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 Long time readers of this blog may remember I have often posted about cases involving claims for wrongful death arising out of someone’s su...
Friday, October 10, 2025

US Supreme Court opens term considering case under the Federal Torts Claims Act

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 This week, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case involving the Federal Torts Claims Act. In this case the plaintiff sued the ...
Friday, October 3, 2025

US Supreme Court to decide whether state limits on malpractice actions apply in federal court

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The SCOTUS blog reports on an upcoming case: Berk v. Choy , to be argued on Oct. 6, surely will be the Supreme Court case of the year for me...
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Parents sue ChatGPT Company alleging the AI program helped their son commit suicide

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 The parents of a 16-year-old who died by suicide sued OpenAI last week, claiming that ChatGPT encouraged their son to take his life and eve...
Friday, July 11, 2025

Not surprisingly, Court dismisses Patrick Reed's defamation suit - UPDATE: Court of Appeals also dismisses appeal

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October 5, 2023 Back in August of last year I reported that professional golfer Patrick Reed filed a defamation claim against a number of de...
Friday, May 23, 2025

Illinois Supreme Court declines to recognize a claim for interference with the parent-child relationship

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Last Thursday, the Illinois Supreme Court published an opinion in a case called Hulsh v. Hulsh in which it declined to recognize a cause of ...
Sunday, May 18, 2025

Update on the status of the blog

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  If you are a long time reader of this blog you will have noticed that I have not posted anything in months and that I posted less frequent...
Thursday, October 17, 2024

Tort Law & Social Equality Project lecture series

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 I just recently learned of an online lecture series on advanced torts topics.  The series is hosted by a Canadian organization called the T...
Sunday, October 13, 2024

Panera Halts Sales of “Charged” Lemonade Drinks Following Lawsuits Claiming Caffeine Overdose Deaths -- UPDATED

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May 13, 2024   [Update at the end below] Last December  I reported on several lawsuits filed against Panera Bread Co. alleging it should be ...