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Articles 1 - 23 of 23
Full-Text Articles in Law
The European Directive On Products Liability: The Promise Of Progress?, Lawrence C. Mann, Peter R. Rodrigues
The European Directive On Products Liability: The Promise Of Progress?, Lawrence C. Mann, Peter R. Rodrigues
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
Contract Law And The Hand Formula, Daniel P. O'Gorman
Contract Law And The Hand Formula, Daniel P. O'Gorman
Louisiana Law Review
No abstract provided.
Recovery For Mental Injuries That Are Accompanied By Physical Injuries Under Article 17 Of The Warsaw Convention: The Progeny Of Eastern Airlines, Inc. V. Floyd, Jean-Paul Boulee
Recovery For Mental Injuries That Are Accompanied By Physical Injuries Under Article 17 Of The Warsaw Convention: The Progeny Of Eastern Airlines, Inc. V. Floyd, Jean-Paul Boulee
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
Chernobyl And Sandoz One Decade Later: The Evolution Of State Responsibility For International Disasters, 1986-1996, Devereaux F. Mcclatchey
Chernobyl And Sandoz One Decade Later: The Evolution Of State Responsibility For International Disasters, 1986-1996, Devereaux F. Mcclatchey
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
Des And A Proposed Theory Of Enterprise Liability, Naomi Sheiner
Des And A Proposed Theory Of Enterprise Liability, Naomi Sheiner
Fordham Law Review
To commemorate our founding in 1914, the Board of Editors has selected six influential pieces published by the Law Review over the past 100 years and will republish one piece in each issue.
The first piece selected by the Board is DES and a Proposed Theory of Enterprise Liability. This Comment, written in 1978 by Fordham Law Review staff member Naomi Sheiner, helped to pioneer the concept of enterprise liability. It has been cited by nearly 250 scholarly articles and in more than 100 cases, including Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories, 607 P.2d 924 (Cal. 1980), the leading case …
Reputational Injury Without A Reputational Attack: Addressing Negligence Claims For Pure Reputational Harm, Bryson Kern
Reputational Injury Without A Reputational Attack: Addressing Negligence Claims For Pure Reputational Harm, Bryson Kern
Fordham Law Review
This Note examines the unsettled relationship between defamation and negligence. The law of defamation, through the torts of libel and slander, constitutes a well-developed and complex body of state common law and constitutional considerations. However, some claims for reputational harm may fall outside of this framework, as the law of defamation does not account for all of the ways that an individual’s reputation may be injured. Thus, plaintiffs sometimes bring negligence claims to seek redress for damage to reputation.
When a plaintiff brings a negligence claim for pure reputational harm, the court is faced with a variety of options for …
Impaired Physicians And The Scope Of Informed Consent: Balancing Patient Safety With Physician Privacy, Sarah Haston
Impaired Physicians And The Scope Of Informed Consent: Balancing Patient Safety With Physician Privacy, Sarah Haston
Florida State University Law Review
No abstract provided.
The State-Created Danger Doctrine, Erwin Chemerinsky
The State-Created Danger Doctrine, Erwin Chemerinsky
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Constitutional Law -- Eimann V. Soldier Of Fortune And "Negligent Advertising" Actions: Commercial Speech In An Era Of Reduced First Amendment Protection, Donald B. Allegro, John D. Ladue
Constitutional Law -- Eimann V. Soldier Of Fortune And "Negligent Advertising" Actions: Commercial Speech In An Era Of Reduced First Amendment Protection, Donald B. Allegro, John D. Ladue
Notre Dame Law Review
No abstract provided.
European Legal Development: The Case Of Tort: Comparative Studies In The Development Of The Law Of Tort In Europe, Vol 9, Anthony Sebok
European Legal Development: The Case Of Tort: Comparative Studies In The Development Of The Law Of Tort In Europe, Vol 9, Anthony Sebok
Articles
This review addresses volumes 7-9 of the series Comparative Studies in the Development of the Law of Torts in Europe, edited by John Bell and David Ibbetson and published by Cambridge University Press.
The Role Of Litigation In The Fight Against Prescription Drug Abuse, Richard C. Ausness
The Role Of Litigation In The Fight Against Prescription Drug Abuse, Richard C. Ausness
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
Prescription drug abuse problems have prompted a number of responses by both drug users (and abusers) and by various federal and state government agencies.
Part I of this Article examines the impressive array of liability theories that individual litigants have relied upon in their lawsuits against Purdue. These theories include: negligence; strict products liability, including design defect and inadequate warning claims; breach of the implied warranty of merchantability; violation of state consumer protection statutes; negligent marketing; fraudulent misrepresentation; civil conspiracy; and "malicious conduct." Purdue, the company that developed OxyContin, has pursued an aggressive "no settlement" policy and has chosen to …
Benevolent Maleficence:How A Well-Intentioned Legislature And A Deferential Court Combined To Stunt The Development Of Massachusetts Product Liability Law, Philip E. Cleary
Benevolent Maleficence:How A Well-Intentioned Legislature And A Deferential Court Combined To Stunt The Development Of Massachusetts Product Liability Law, Philip E. Cleary
University of Massachusetts Law Review
Massachusetts product liability law is unusual. Unlike most states, Massachusetts does not recognize strict tort liability in the product area. Rather, "strict product liability" is limited to breaches of warranty under Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code. the Massachusetts Legislature amended Article 2 in several ways to provide a "strict liability" remedy that is, in the words of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, "congruent in nearly all respects with the principles" of strict tort liability. The court has construed the amendments to the UCC as precluding the adoption of strict tort liability in Massachusetts. In most ways, Massachusetts product …
Strict Products Liability At 50: Four Histories, Kyle Graham
Strict Products Liability At 50: Four Histories, Kyle Graham
Faculty Publications
This article offers four different perspectives on the strict products-liability "revolution" that climaxed a half-century ago. One of these narratives relates the prevailing assessment of how this innovation coalesced and spread across the states. The three alternative histories introduced by this article both challenge and complement the standard account by viewing the shift toward strict products liability through "populist," "practical," and "contingent" lenses, respectively. The first of these narratives considers the contributions that plaintiffs and their counsel made toward this change in the law. The second focuses upon how certain types of once-common products cases forged a practical argument for …
On Business Torts And The First Amendment, Richard J. Peltz-Steele
On Business Torts And The First Amendment, Richard J. Peltz-Steele
Faculty Publications
A gaping question in free speech law surrounds the application of the First Amendment defense in business torts. The pervasiveness of communication technologies, the flourishing of privacy law, and the mere passage of time have precipitated an escalation in tort cases in which communication, and what the defendant may allege is free speech, lies at the heart of the matter.
Negligence And Accommodation: On Taking Others As They Really Are, Avihay Dorfman
Negligence And Accommodation: On Taking Others As They Really Are, Avihay Dorfman
Avihay Dorfman
Disagreements over the morality and the efficiency of the standard of reasonable care are at the root of the study of negligence law (and, perhaps, tort law as a whole). They typically proceed as though the most important question that needs to be addressed is that of the content of this standard, namely, the question of what reasonable care is. However, in these pages I shall argue that there exists another important question, which is to say the manner in which reasonable care is evaluated. This question, I show, is neither fixed by nor subservient to the content of the …
Are You Free To Contract Away Your Right To Bring A Negligence Claim?, Scott J. Burnham
Are You Free To Contract Away Your Right To Bring A Negligence Claim?, Scott J. Burnham
Chicago-Kent Law Review
This article explores the enforceability of the exculpatory clause—a contract term in which one party agrees to give up the right to bring a negligence claim against the other party. A spectrum of views on whether a contract containing such a clause is aberrant or not is presented and analyzed, followed by the author’s view of the rubric by which the enforceability of the clause should be measured. The article concludes by deconstructing one contract in which the clause was found.
Confused Culpability, Contrived Causation, And The Collapse Of Tort Theory, Larry Alexander, Kimberly Kessler Ferzan
Confused Culpability, Contrived Causation, And The Collapse Of Tort Theory, Larry Alexander, Kimberly Kessler Ferzan
All Faculty Scholarship
What justifies tort law? Once we identify a domain that is central to if not co-extensive with “torts,” we will find that it consists of a motley collection of doctrines that are impossible to justify under any recognizable and attractive normative principles.
Can I Be Sued For That? Liability Risk And The Disclosure Of Clinically Significant Genetic Research Findings, Ellen Wright Clayton, Amy L. Mcguire, Et Al.
Can I Be Sued For That? Liability Risk And The Disclosure Of Clinically Significant Genetic Research Findings, Ellen Wright Clayton, Amy L. Mcguire, Et Al.
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Genomic researchers increasingly are faced with difficult decisions about whether, under what circumstances, and how to return research results and significant incidental findings to study participants. Many have argued that there is an ethical—maybe even a legal—obligation to disclose significant findings under some circumstances. At the international level, over the last decade there has begun to emerge a clear legal obligation to return significant findings discovered during the course of research. However, there is no explicit legal duty to disclose in the United States. This creates legal uncertainty that may lead to unmanaged variation in practice and poor quality care. …
Contract Law And The Hand Formula, Daniel P. O'Gorman
Contract Law And The Hand Formula, Daniel P. O'Gorman
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Texas Remedies In Equity For Breach Of Fiduciary Duty: Disgorgement, Forfeiture, And Fracturing., George P. Roach
Texas Remedies In Equity For Breach Of Fiduciary Duty: Disgorgement, Forfeiture, And Fracturing., George P. Roach
St. Mary's Law Journal
The remedy of fee forfeiture against lawyer fiduciaries has been marginalized. Following Burrow v. Arce, Texas trial courts have frequently applied a no-fracturing rule that effectively bars a claim for breach of fiduciary duty against an attorney. Although the court in Burrow held actual damages were not a prerequisite for fee forfeiture, many Texas trial courts have not followed that precedent. Most Texas trial courts require the plaintiff to prove actual damages to survive a summary judgment motion. Others have openly asserted that not all legitimate claims for breach of fiduciary duty should be allowed as an alternative claim to …
Information And Causation In Tort Law: Generalizing The Learned Hand Test For Causation Cases, Keith N. Hylton
Information And Causation In Tort Law: Generalizing The Learned Hand Test For Causation Cases, Keith N. Hylton
Faculty Scholarship
This paper discusses the economics of causation in tort law, describing precise implications for precautionary incentives when courts are and are not perfectly informed. With precautionary incentives identified, we can ask whether the causation inquiry enhances welfare, and if so under what conditions. Perhaps the most important innovation applies to the Hand Formula. When causation is an issue, the probability of causal intervention should be part of the Hand test, and the generalized Hand test offers a method of distinguishing significant classes of causation cases. I close with implications for the moral significance of causation and for economic analysis of …
“Payability” As The Logical Corollary To “Collectibility” In Legal Malpractice, Daniel D. Tostrud
“Payability” As The Logical Corollary To “Collectibility” In Legal Malpractice, Daniel D. Tostrud
St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics
The collectibility requirement as part of the legal malpractice plaintiff’s affirmative case is well-established and regarded by most courts as a critical part of the plaintiff’s proof of proximate causation. Conversely, where the legal malpractice plaintiff was the defendant in the underlying lawsuit, to be successful in the malpractice suit, the plaintiff must prove that it had a meritorious defense that would have made a difference to the outcome of the case had the lawyer properly asserted and pursued the defense. Prompted by the conflicting opinions of two federal courts on this issue, courts have begun to discuss whether the …
Is Negligence A First Cousin To Intentionality? Lay Conceptions Of Negligence And Its Relationship To Intentionality, Narina Nunez
Is Negligence A First Cousin To Intentionality? Lay Conceptions Of Negligence And Its Relationship To Intentionality, Narina Nunez
Narina Nunez
In three studies, we examined lay conceptions of negligence and how they are used when making judgments about actors’ intentions, negligence, and blame. Study 1 examined the extent to which participants agreed about what constitutes negligence and accidents. After finding a high level of agreement between participants, Study 2 explored the features that defined participants’ folk understanding of negligence. Additionally, we examined if definitions of negligence overlapped with key features of definitions of intentionality proposed in the literature. Study 2 suggested there were some key overlapping features and differences between negligence and intentionality. Finally, Study 3 examined how two key …