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 ...
Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Complaint essentially alleges that employer worked decedent to death

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 Courthouse News Service is reporting that a widow has filed a complaint arguing that the production team behind the NFL’s “Hard Knocks” spo...
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Another lawsuit for Wrongful Life based on the destruction of embryos

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About Lawsuits is reporting on a recently filed complaint  in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina by a couple...
Tuesday, August 20, 2024

California expands the notion of "present at the scene" and "a contemporaneous sensory observance" of an accident for purposes of a claim for emotional distress of a bystander

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 You probably remember from law school the development of the law related to claims by bystanders for emotional distress at witnessing someo...
Monday, August 19, 2024

Lawsuit filed against OceanGate, the company involved in the submersible implosion on the way to the Titanic

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You may recall that last year a controversial company named OceanGate was involved in an accident that resulted in the death of a number of ...
Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Alabama case in which state Supreme Court held frozen embryos are "children" for purposes of wrongful death settles and is dismissed

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 The lawsuit that led to a highly-publicized Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos in a lab count as “minor children,” was dismis...
Monday, July 8, 2024

If you are considering a new casebook for your course...

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 Carolina Academic Press recently published the second edition of Torts: A Modern Approach by Alex B. Long and Teri Dobbins Baxter. Its desc...
Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Study on the dangers of "energy drinks"

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 A few minutes after I posted the news that Panera would stop selling its "charged lemonade," I saw this story on the dangers of o...
Sunday, February 25, 2024

More commentary on the Alabama decision on wrongful death of frozen embryos

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 A few days ago I posted my comments on the Alabama case deciding a plaintiff could support a claim under the state's wrongful death act...