Several industrial companies have recently implemented transactions to permanently divest legacy contingent liabilities. In ...
Economists tend to view tort law differently than lawyers—or state attorney generals—and this difference explains both the advent of bankruptcy trusts in adjudicating class action liability claims and ...
In Thacker v. Tennessee Valley Authority, the government contends (and the lower courts agreed) that the TVA should be immune from tort liability to shield executive policy-making, even when the TVA ...
Mazzocchio arises from two sisters’ allegations that they developed cancer from exposure to radioactive contamination linked to a former nuclear waste storage site in Missouri. The sisters sued ...
When sued for a common-law tort, the United States government enjoys the benefit of a statutory exception to liability that prevents judicial second-guessing of executive policy decisions. The ...
Matt Kalil’s $75k California lawsuit against Haley Baylee tests livestream disclosures, third-party harm, and the new era of privacy tort liability.
From Judge Tiffany Cartwright (W.D. Wash.) in Friday's Jan v. People Media Project: Plaintiff Almog Meir Jan is an Israeli citizen who was kidnapped on October 7 and held hostage by Hamas operative ...
(Reuters) - Some of the most closely watched U.S. product liability cases, including mass torts over opioid painkillers and the heartburn medicine Zantac, began to wind down in 2022. Others, however, ...
The Minneapolis ICE shooting of U.S. citizen Renee Nicole Macklin Good raises Fourth Amendment scrutiny and FTCA liability, accelerating federal institutional risk.
Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...
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