Thursday, April 30, 2009

Court recognizes claim against Boeing subsidiary for damages caused by violation of the law of nations

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The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated a lawsuit that claims a Boeing subsidiary helped the CIA transport prisoners to oversea...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Sad story

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When discussing the issues related to whether there is (or should be) a duty to help, I often use a hypo that involves a person walking alon...
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Tort reform at the movies

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The PopTort Blog is reporting today that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is planning to show commercials before movies in Regal theaters (and m...

Duty while playing golf?

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Law.com has a story today about a case from New York that involved a number of interesting questions in the context of one of my hobbies. ...
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Monday, April 27, 2009

Strict Liability for animal attacks

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Last February I saw two stories related to animal attacks. Instead of posting them then, I saved them until now when we covered strict liabi...

Regulation of pitbulls?

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Here is a story from back in March that I saved for our class discussion of damages caused by animals... Oregon is considering a bill to ba...

Attempts to legislate pit bulls in Texas

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A proposed Texas law that would make it a crime for children under 16 to handle or care for pit bull dogs has raised hackles amongst a numbe...
Friday, April 24, 2009

Most interesting stories this week

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It's Friday, which means it's time for the lists of the most interesting stories for this week. For the TortProf Blog's list go ...
Thursday, April 23, 2009

Significant changes in products liability in Pennsylvania?

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The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals predicted Tuesday that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court will import negligence concepts into the strict ...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Arguments in Iraq v Beaty

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A couple of days ago I posted a note about Iraq v Beaty , a case in which the Supreme Court will decide whether Federal Courts have jurisdic...