Sunday, August 31, 2025

Parents sue ChatGPT Company alleging the AI program helped their son commit suicide

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 The parents of a 16-year-old who died by suicide sued OpenAI last week, claiming that ChatGPT encouraged their son to take his life and eve...
Friday, July 11, 2025

Not surprisingly, Court dismisses Patrick Reed's defamation suit - UPDATE: Court of Appeals also dismisses appeal

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October 5, 2023 Back in August of last year I reported that professional golfer Patrick Reed filed a defamation claim against a number of de...
Friday, May 23, 2025

Illinois Supreme Court declines to recognize a claim for interference with the parent-child relationship

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Last Thursday, the Illinois Supreme Court published an opinion in a case called Hulsh v. Hulsh in which it declined to recognize a cause of ...
Sunday, May 18, 2025

Update on the status of the blog

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  If you are a long time reader of this blog you will have noticed that I have not posted anything in months and that I posted less frequent...
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 ...