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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
(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, ...
Trucks queuing at a container terminal gate. (photo courtesy of the Port of Los Angeles) SAINT PAUL, Minn. (CN) — Minnesota joined the slight majority of states that recognize tort claims for ...
The Minneapolis ICE shooting of U.S. citizen Renee Nicole Macklin Good raises Fourth Amendment scrutiny and FTCA liability, accelerating federal institutional risk.
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