Monday, August 31, 2009

Former Toyota attorney claims Toyota destroyed evidence in rollover cases

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A former high-ranking attorney for Toyota has alleged that the auto maker conspired to illegally conceal and withhold evidence in Toyota rol...
Saturday, August 29, 2009

Defense verdict in product liability case re Yamaha ATV

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AboutLawsuits.com is reporting today that a Texas jury has found that Yamaha Motor Corp. is not liable for the death of a 13-year-old boy in...

Department of Veterans Affairs faces lawsuits

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AboutLawsuits.com is reporting that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has mistakenly notified hundreds of veterans that they have Lou ...

Article on the Alien Tort Act

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The Wall Street Journal published a short article on the Alien Tort Act today (available here ).
Friday, August 28, 2009

New developments in Chrysler bankruptcy news

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The PopTort Blog and the Tort Deform Blog are both reporting today that Chrysler has reversed course and agreed to accept product liability ...

New verdict against tobacco company.

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A California jury has awarded nearly $14 million in punitive damages to the daughter of a woman who died after a lifetime of smoking in a la...

More on the Prosser Notebook

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Yesterday I wrote about the "Prosser notebook"* ( here ) that is now available online . I mentioned that Prof. Chris Robinette stu...

Most interesting stories this week

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It's Friday, which means it is time for the TortsProf Blog's list of the most interesting stories for this week (availalble here .)
Thursday, August 27, 2009

Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to have had Prosser as your Torts professor?

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Well, now you can get a little bit of a sense of what it would have been like... Professor Chris Robinette from Widener Univ. School of Law...

Interesting recent case regarding the so-called "rescue doctrine"

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About a month ago, the Illinois Court of Appeals (third district) decided a case called Strickland v. Kotecki (available here ) in which th...
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