Sunday, September 19, 2021

"Worth" -- Netflix's movie on the 9/11 victim's compensation fund, and interviews with Ken Feinberg

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To coincide with the 20th anniversary of the attacks on September 11, 2001, Netflix released a new movie called "Worth".  It is a ...
Sunday, September 5, 2021

Wrongfully Convicted Man who was Imprisoned for 23 Years Sues Prosecutor

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 A recently exonerated man who spent 23 years in prison has filed a complaint against a longtime Mississippi district attorney alleging vari...
Sunday, August 15, 2021

Missouri Supreme Court upholds statutory cap on non-economic damages

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I am not happy to report that the Missouri Supreme Court appears to have dropped its hostility towards tort reform. This past July, it uphel...
Sunday, July 11, 2021

Louisiana Court of Appeals rejects wrongful life claims

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 About two weeks ago the Louisiana Court of Appeals issued an opinion in which it joins the majority of jurisdictions in rejecting the notio...
Sunday, July 4, 2021

Texas Supreme Court holds that Amazon can not be held liable for injuries caused by products sold by others through Amazon

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Back in May I reported that a California Appellate Court held that Amazon can be liable in products liability for products sold by other ve...
Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Important Reminder: if you currently get this blog's updates by e-mail, you need to change "carrier"; here's how to do it

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Hopefully, by now you don't need this last reminder, but just in case... In case you have missed the previous posts on this, you should ...
Monday, June 21, 2021

Finally, some changes to the Feres Doctrine!

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In Feres v US , the US Supreme Court expanded the interpretation of one of the exception to the Federal Torts Claims Act resulting in a ban ...

Supreme Court rules that Alien Tort Statute can't be used against defendants for conduct that happens overseas

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Long time readers of this blog know I have followed the cases on the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) for some time.  For my posts on this topic, go...

Snapchat Ends 'Speed Filter' That Critics Say Encouraged Reckless Driving

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 Last month I reported that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had issued an opinion holding that the parents of a teenager killed in a t...
Sunday, June 13, 2021

Trial related to destroyed frozen embryos raises interesting questions -- UPDATED again

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This story is updated below, at the end of the original post I just read a story on Courthouse News on a trial in which the plaintiffs are ...