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Sue My Car Not Me: Products Liability And Accidents Involving Autonomous Vehicles, Jeffrey K. Gurney

Jeffrey K Gurney

Autonomous vehicles will revolutionize society within the decade. They will cause accidents. Tort liability, however, is not ready for the introduction of autonomous vehicles, and, thus, liability will not be assessed to the party that is responsible for the accident. This Note addresses the liability of autonomous vehicle by examining products liability through the use of four scenarios: the Distracted Driver; the Diminished Capabilities Driver; the Disabled Driver; and the Attentive Driver.

Based on those scenarios, this Note argues that the autonomous technology manufacturer should be liable for accidents while the vehicle is in autonomous mode. This Note suggests that …

Tortifying Employment Discrimination, Charles A. Sullivan

Charles A. Sullivan

Although Title VII is often described as a “statutory tort,” that label has, until recently, been mostly metaphorical. In Staub v. Proctor Hospital Corp., however, the Supreme Court took an important first step in incorporating concepts from tort law into the antidiscrimination statutes. Although Staub received some attention as a “cat’s paw” (or subordinate bias) liability decision, it will have broader significance for two reasons.

First, the Court explicitly adopted tort law’s definition of “intent” for statutory discrimination cases, thus raising a threshold question of the what it means to “intend to discriminate.” This Article suggests that, rather than widening …

How The Global Crime Syndicates Fuel Planet Destruction, Global Alliance

Global Alliance

since 1945 more environmental planet destruction has been fuelled and financed with ever more leveraged debt than in the previous 60 million years - it's applied terrorism against the global life support system under the protection racket of a corrupt law profession

What Do You Do With A Drunken Sailor? Reprehensibility, The Exxon Valdez And Punitive Damages, Charles S. Doskow

Charles S Doskow

Under the Supreme Court's due process analysis of the constitutionality of punitive damage awards, in the BMW and State Farm cases, reprehensibility is the first factor considered. The Ninth Circuit's opinion in the Exxon Valdez oil spill case contains a detailed analysis of the elements of reprehensibility. The Supreme Court, on appeal of the Ninth Circuit's decision upholding punitive damages of $2.5 billion, avoided constitutional analysis and applied maritime law. The Court limited punitive damages to the amount of compensatory damages, a 1:1 ratio. Whether this standard will be applied outside the maritime area, to future awards evaluated under due …

Torts - Wrongful Death - Dependent Distributee Need Not Be Totally Dependant Upon Deceased, Mark A. Summers

West Virginia Law Review

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