Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Illinois statute eliminates ban on punitive damages in death cases

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 Back in May I reported that the Illinois General Assembly was considering a bill that would allow plaintiffs to seek punitive damages in ca...
Wednesday, August 9, 2023

Rudy, I told you that's not how things work!

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 Last Friday I posted a story about how Rudy Giuliani attempted to prevent having to comply discovery in a defamation case by conceding all ...
Friday, July 28, 2023

Why would Rudy Giuliani concede the elements of a defamation claim against him?

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Last Tuesday Rudy Giuliani filed a  two-page stipulation  in a long-running defamation lawsuit by two Georgia election workers stating that ...
Monday, July 24, 2023

With all this talk about "AI", where does Tort law fit in?

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Christopher Robertson (Boston University) has published a very good short piece in The Hill explaining how Tort Law is, and will continue to...
Friday, June 30, 2023

Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit finds that TSA screeners are subject to liability under the Federal Torts Claims Act

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 As reported in the TortsProf blog:  The Fourth Circuit has now joined the Third and Eighth Circuits in holding that TSA screeners are subje...
Saturday, June 10, 2023

OpenAI Sued For Defamation Over Statements Created by ChatGPT

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It has finally happened: someone has sued ChatGPT maker OpenAI over an AI “hallucination” (i.e., confidently spewing out something that is b...
Thursday, June 1, 2023

Federal Court denies motion to dismiss, allowing claim for emotional distress based on pre-impact terror to move forward

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As reported in Day on Torts : A federal judge in Chicago has agreed to allow a jury to consider whether airplane crash victims experience pr...
Saturday, May 27, 2023

More coverage of Tort reform in Florida

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I recently posted a note about Tort Reform in Florida.  See here . The TortsProf blog has more coverage and links here .
Sunday, May 21, 2023

Illinois considers eliminating ban on punitive damages in death cases

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I have never been able to figure out the public policy reasons behind the principle of Illinois law that holds that the right to seek puniti...
Thursday, March 30, 2023

Florida overhauls litigation rules to adopt "tort reform" to make it more difficult for plaintiffs to recover for injuries

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Last week, in a closed-door ceremony shut out to reporters, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law one of the most sweeping tort refo...