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Something Stinks: The Need For Stronger Agricultural Waste Regulations, Audrey Curelop
Something Stinks: The Need For Stronger Agricultural Waste Regulations, Audrey Curelop
Washington and Lee Law Review
In the twentieth century, the American agricultural industry underwent significant changes—while most food animals were once raised on small family farms, now, over fifty percent are produced entirely inside concentrated animal feeding operations. These large‑scale farming operations house hundreds to thousands of cows, swine, or chickens, which collectively produce hundreds of millions of tons of waste per year. The primary method of waste disposal is land application, a process in which waste is sprayed or spread onto land with no required pretreatment. After land application, waste byproducts make their way into the surrounding air and waterways, posing significant threats to …
Making Privacy Injuries Concrete, Peter Ormerod
Making Privacy Injuries Concrete, Peter Ormerod
Washington and Lee Law Review
In recent years, the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly said that the doctrine of Article III standing deprives the federal courts of jurisdiction over some lawsuits involving intangible injuries. The lower federal courts are carrying out the Supreme Court’s instructions, and privacy injuries have borne the brunt of the Court’s directive. This Article identifies two incoherencies in the Court’s recent intangible injury decisions and builds on the work of privacy scholars to fashion a solution.
The first incoherency is a line-drawing problem: the Court has never explained why some intangible injuries create an Article III injury in fact while others …
Qualified Immunity: Round Two, Andrew Coan, Delorean Forbes
Qualified Immunity: Round Two, Andrew Coan, Delorean Forbes
Washington and Lee Law Review
For the first time in its fifty-year history, the future of qualified immunity is in serious doubt. The doctrine may yet survive for many years. But thanks largely to the recent mass movement for racial justice, major reform and abolition are now live possibilities. This development raises a host of questions that have been little explored in the voluminous literature on qualified immunity because its abolition has been so difficult to imagine before now. Perhaps the most pressing is how overworked federal courts will respond to a substantial influx of new cases fueled by qualified immunity’s curtailment or demise. Might …
(Almost) No Bad Drugs: Near-Total Products Liability Immunity For Pharmaceuticals Explained, Anita Bernstein
(Almost) No Bad Drugs: Near-Total Products Liability Immunity For Pharmaceuticals Explained, Anita Bernstein
Washington and Lee Law Review
This Article explores four beliefs about supposed pharma-benevolence that appear to be shared by more than the industry, reaching the level almost of conventional wisdom. These figurative pillars help support one-sided results in court. However, each of the pillars on examination turns out at least a bit shaky. This Article puts them forward for review to start a necessary discussion.
The locus of this Article is products liability, where a court concludes that a manufactured object is defective or could be called defective by a factfinder following a trial. Drug manufacturers enjoy near-immunity from this consequence. Modern products liability identifies …
Supervisors Without Supervision: Colon, Mckenna, And The Confusing State Of Supervisory Liability In The Second Circuit, Ryan E. Johnson
Supervisors Without Supervision: Colon, Mckenna, And The Confusing State Of Supervisory Liability In The Second Circuit, Ryan E. Johnson
Washington and Lee Law Review
This Note received the 2019 Washington and Lee Law Council Law Review Award.
This Note analyzes two intra-Second Circuit splits that make it nearly impossible for prisoners to recover against supervisors under § 1983. First, district courts in the Second Circuit are divided as to whether the five categories of personal involvement defined in Colon v. Coughlin survive the Supreme Court’s decision in Ashcroft v. Iqbal. Personal involvement by the supervisory defendant is a necessary element to impose supervisory liability. Some district courts hold that only the first and third Colon factors survive Iqbal, while others hold that all …
Reaching Through The “Ghost Doxer:” An Argument For Imposing Secondary Liability On Online Intermediaries, Natalia Homchick
Reaching Through The “Ghost Doxer:” An Argument For Imposing Secondary Liability On Online Intermediaries, Natalia Homchick
Washington and Lee Law Review
Imagine you have decided to run for office, to speak out publicly against an injustice, to enter the job market, or even to join a new online forum. Now, imagine after starting your chosen endeavor, you go online to discover that someone who disagrees with your position posted your personal information on the internet and called for others to harass you. To make matters worse, you realize that you cannot determine who posted your personal data. You have been doxed. Because you cannot identify the person who posted your information, where can you turn for recourse? The next logical party …
Adopting Civil Damages: Wrongful Family Separation In Adoption, Malinda L. Seymore
Adopting Civil Damages: Wrongful Family Separation In Adoption, Malinda L. Seymore
Washington and Lee Law Review
The Trump Administration’s new immigration policy of family separation at the U.S./Mexico border rocked the summer of 2018. Yet family separation is the prerequisite to every legal adoption. The circumstances are different, of course. In legal adoption, the biological parents are provided with all the constitutional protections required in involuntary termination of parental rights, or they have voluntarily consented to family separation. But what happens when that family separation is wrongful, when the birth mother’s consent is not voluntary, or when the birth father’s wishes to parent are ignored? In theory, the child can be returned to the birth parents …
In Search Of A Unified Theory Of The Duties Flowing From Property Ownership In Virginia: A Response To Mcelhaney’S If A Tree Falls, E. Kyle Mcnew
In Search Of A Unified Theory Of The Duties Flowing From Property Ownership In Virginia: A Response To Mcelhaney’S If A Tree Falls, E. Kyle Mcnew
Washington and Lee Law Review
In his Note, Ian McElhaney concludes that the Court got it right in Cline v. Dunlora South, LLC—that the landowner owes no duty to protect travelers on adjoining roadways from natural conditions on the landowner’s property—because the Court also got it right in Cline v. Commonwealth when it held that the Commonwealth of Virginia may have that duty instead. In the narrowest view, that is certainly a defensible position. If the case is just about natural conditions and roads, then there is intuitive appeal in saying that they are the Commonwealth’s roads; so, it is the Commonwealth’s job to make …
If A Tree Falls In A Roadway, Is Anyone Liable?: Proposing The Duty Of Reasonable Care For Virginia’S Road-Maintaining Entities, Ian J. Mcelhaney
If A Tree Falls In A Roadway, Is Anyone Liable?: Proposing The Duty Of Reasonable Care For Virginia’S Road-Maintaining Entities, Ian J. Mcelhaney
Washington and Lee Law Review
This Note considers whether a duty for road-maintaining entities is tenable under Virginia law. It also explores the rationale for imposing differing liabilities between landowners and road-maintaining entities. Part III reviews the various duties other states use with respect to dangerous roadside trees and concludes that the duty of reasonable care is most appropriate for Virginia. Sovereign immunity is a companion issue and is addressed in Part IV. The Part provides a brief overview of the policy arguments for sovereign immunity, before reviewing immunity’s impact at the state, county, and municipal levels. The Part also addresses a government employee’s entitlement …
A Few Thoughts On “If A Tree Falls In A Roadway . . . .”, David Eggert
A Few Thoughts On “If A Tree Falls In A Roadway . . . .”, David Eggert
Washington and Lee Law Review
This Response to Ian McElhaney’s note examines (1) the background legal context that got us to where we are on falling-tree liability; (2) how this peculiar issue fits into Virginia’s general approach to the law; and (3) presents some thoughts on Mr. McElhaney’s reasoning and ultimate conclusions in urging liability for road maintainers.
Rehabilitating The Nuisance Injunction To Protect The Environment, Doug Rendleman
Rehabilitating The Nuisance Injunction To Protect The Environment, Doug Rendleman
Washington and Lee Law Review
The Trump Administration has reversed the federal government’s role of protecting the environment. The reversal focuses attention on states’ environmental capacity. This Article advocates more vigorous state environmental tort remedies for nuisance and trespass. An injunction is the superior remedy in most successful environmental litigation because it orders correction and improvement. Two anachronistic barriers to an environmental injunction are the New York Court of Appeals’ decision, Boomer v. Atlantic Cement, and Calabresi and Melamed’s early and iconic law-and-economics article, One View of the Cathedral. This Article examines and criticizes both because, by subordinating the injunction to money damages, they undervalue …
Positive Externalities And The Economics Of Proximate Cause, Israel Gilead, Michael D. Green
Positive Externalities And The Economics Of Proximate Cause, Israel Gilead, Michael D. Green
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
A Group’S A Group, No Matter How Small: An Economic Analysis Of Defamation, Alan D. Miller, Ronen Perry
A Group’S A Group, No Matter How Small: An Economic Analysis Of Defamation, Alan D. Miller, Ronen Perry
Washington and Lee Law Review
Consider the following: A Jews-for-Jesus bulletin reports, falsely, that a Jewish woman became “a believer in the tenets, the actions, and the philosophy of Jews for Jesus.” Does this publication constitute defamation? Should defamatoriness be determined in accordance with the views of the general non- Jewish community, with those of the Jewish minority, or with a normative ethical commitment? Our Article aims to provide the answers. Part I demonstrates that the de finition of defamatoriness in common law jurisdictions is essentially empirical and distinguishes between the two leading tests—the English test and the American test. Part II.A describes the English, …
When Certainty Dissolves Into Probability: A Legal Vision Of Toxic Causation For The Post-Genomic Era, Steve C. Gold
When Certainty Dissolves Into Probability: A Legal Vision Of Toxic Causation For The Post-Genomic Era, Steve C. Gold
Washington and Lee Law Review
Proof of causation in toxic torts has presented persistent problems for the legal system, because the probabilities that science can know fit poorly with the demands for particularistic proof imposed by the law’s deterministic model of causation. Some scholars have hoped that genomic and molecular information will at last provide scientific certainty—definitive, individualized proof of toxic causation. This Article argues that the opposite is true. Scientific research will increasingly elucidate the ways in which environmental exposures and human genes interact to produce disease, but this deeper knowledge will extend rather than resolve the problem of causal indeterminacy in toxic torts. …
Fear-Based Standing: Cognizing An Injury-In-Fact, Brian Calabrese
Fear-Based Standing: Cognizing An Injury-In-Fact, Brian Calabrese
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Measurement Of Restitution: Coordinating Restitution With Compensatory Damages And Punitive Damages, Doug Rendleman
Measurement Of Restitution: Coordinating Restitution With Compensatory Damages And Punitive Damages, Doug Rendleman
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Story Of Us: Resolving The Face-Off Between Autobiographical Speech And Information Privacy, Sonja R. West
The Story Of Us: Resolving The Face-Off Between Autobiographical Speech And Information Privacy, Sonja R. West
Washington and Lee Law Review
Increasingly more "ordinary"A mericans are choosing to share their life experiences with a public audience. In doing so, however, they are revealing more than their own personal stories; they are exposing private information about others as well. The faceoff between autobiographical speech and information privacy is coming to a head, and our legal system is not prepared to handle it. In a prior article, I established that autobiographicals peech is a unique and important category of speech that is at risk of being undervalued under current Law. This Article builds on my earlier work by addressing the emerging conflict between …
Loss Of Potential Parenthood As A Statutory Solution To The Conflict Between Wrongful Death Remedies And Roe V. Wade, Erica Richards
Loss Of Potential Parenthood As A Statutory Solution To The Conflict Between Wrongful Death Remedies And Roe V. Wade, Erica Richards
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Challenge To The Individual Causation Requirement In Mass Products Torts, Donald G. Gifford
The Challenge To The Individual Causation Requirement In Mass Products Torts, Donald G. Gifford
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Respondeat Superior, Intentional Torts, And Clergy Sexual Misconduct: The Implications Of Fearing V. Bucher, Michael J. Sartor
Respondeat Superior, Intentional Torts, And Clergy Sexual Misconduct: The Implications Of Fearing V. Bucher, Michael J. Sartor
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Limiting The Vicarious Liability Of Franchisors For The Torts Of Their Franchisees, Joseph H. King, Jr.
Limiting The Vicarious Liability Of Franchisors For The Torts Of Their Franchisees, Joseph H. King, Jr.
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Private Harms In The Cyber-World: The Conundrum Of Choice Of Law For Defamation Posed By Gutnick V. Dow Jones & Co., Shawn A. Bone
Private Harms In The Cyber-World: The Conundrum Of Choice Of Law For Defamation Posed By Gutnick V. Dow Jones & Co., Shawn A. Bone
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Defamation In The Digital Age: Some Comparative Law Observations On The Difficulty Of Reconciling Free Speech And Reputation In The Emerging Global Village, Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr.
Defamation In The Digital Age: Some Comparative Law Observations On The Difficulty Of Reconciling Free Speech And Reputation In The Emerging Global Village, Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr.
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
A Comment On Private Harms In The Cyber-World, Christopher Wolf
A Comment On Private Harms In The Cyber-World, Christopher Wolf
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
The New Federalism Jurisprudence And National Tort Reform, Betsy J. Grey
The New Federalism Jurisprudence And National Tort Reform, Betsy J. Grey
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Deterrence: The Legitimate Function Of The Public Tort, Thomas C. Galligan, Jr.
Deterrence: The Legitimate Function Of The Public Tort, Thomas C. Galligan, Jr.
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
A Model For Enhanced Risk Recovery In Tort, Andrew R. Klein
A Model For Enhanced Risk Recovery In Tort, Andrew R. Klein
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Toyota Principle, Alex Kozinski
The Toyota Principle, Alex Kozinski
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Better Off Dead Than Disabled?: Should Courts Recognize A "Wrongful Living" Cause Of Action When Doctors Fail To Honor Patients' Advance Directives?, Adam A. Milani
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Calculating Damages For Loss Of Parental Nurture Through Multiple Regression Analysis, Talcott J. Franklin
Calculating Damages For Loss Of Parental Nurture Through Multiple Regression Analysis, Talcott J. Franklin
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.