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Articles 1 - 30 of 163
Full-Text Articles in Torts
Summary Of Sanchez V. Wal-Mart, 125 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 60, Shana S. Brouwers
Summary Of Sanchez V. Wal-Mart, 125 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 60, Shana S. Brouwers
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
Plaintiffs/Appellants appeal from a district court dismissal of their complaint against several pharmacies for wrongful death and personal injury in a common-law negligence and negligence per se action.
Whose Duty Is It Anyway?: The Kennedy Krieger Opinion And Its Implications For Public Health Research, Diane E. Hoffmann, Karen H. Rothenberg
Whose Duty Is It Anyway?: The Kennedy Krieger Opinion And Its Implications For Public Health Research, Diane E. Hoffmann, Karen H. Rothenberg
Karen H. Rothenberg
In this article, the authors discuss the Maryland Court of Appeals decision in the case of Grimes v. Kennedy Krieger Institute, Inc. and its implications for the tort duty owed by researchers, in particular public health researchers, to their subjects. The Opinion resulted from two lawsuits alleging lead poisoning of children enrolled in a study conducted by the Kennedy Krieger Institute, a world renown pediatric research and treatment facility. The opinion shocked the research establishment with its scathing characterization of researchers and its apparent holding that in Maryland a parent cannot consent to the participation of a child in "nontherapeutic …
Medical Malpractice Reform?, Robert B. Leflar
Medical Malpractice Reform?, Robert B. Leflar
Robert B Leflar
Column 3 (of 5) on health reform: Medical malpractice reform proposals
Bonding Limited Liability, Robert J. Rhee
Bonding Limited Liability, Robert J. Rhee
Robert Rhee
Limited liability is considered a “birthright” of corporations. The concept is entrenched in legal theory, and it is a fixed reality of the political economy. But it remains controversial. Scholarly debate has been engaged in absolute terms of defending the rule or advocating its abrogation. Though compelling, these polar positions, often expressed in abstract arguments, are associated with disquieting effects. Without limited liability, efficiency may be severely compromised. With it, involuntary tort creditors bear some of the cost of an enterprise. Most other proposals for reforming limited liability have been incremental, such as modifying veil piercing. However, neither absolutism nor …
Torts, Deron R. Hicks, Travis C. Hargrove
Torts, Deron R. Hicks, Travis C. Hargrove
Mercer Law Review
This Article surveys recent developments in Georgia tort law between June 1, 2008 and May 31, 2009.
Comfortably Numb: Medicalizing (And Mitigating) Pain-And-Suffering Damages, Lars Noah
Comfortably Numb: Medicalizing (And Mitigating) Pain-And-Suffering Damages, Lars Noah
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Among the compensatory damages that a plaintiff may recover in tort litigation, awards for pain and suffering have attracted the most attention. Attorneys, judges, legislators, and scholars from various disciplines long have struggled to measure and make sense of this aspect of compensation for tortiously caused injuries. With the steady expansion of what falls within the rubric of nonpecuniary damages and in the types of claims eligible for such awards, to say nothing of the growth in the absolute and relative size of this portion of compensatory awards, pain-and-suffering damages have become increasingly controversial.
Although it canvasses the competing arguments …
Product Liability, Franklin P. Brannen Jr., Jacob E. Daly
Product Liability, Franklin P. Brannen Jr., Jacob E. Daly
Mercer Law Review
This Article surveys developments in Georgia product liability law during the period of June 1, 2008 through May 31, 2009. It covers noteworthy cases decided during the survey period by the Georgia appellate courts, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and United States district courts located in Georgia. In addition, this Article discusses bills considered by the Georgia General Assembly during its 2009 session that are particularly relevant to product liability cases.
Negligence And Insufficient Activity: The Missing Paradigm In Torts, David Gilo, Ehud Guttel
Negligence And Insufficient Activity: The Missing Paradigm In Torts, David Gilo, Ehud Guttel
Michigan Law Review
Conventional wisdom in tort law maintains that the prevention of undesirable risks mandates restriction of harmful conduct. Against this widely held conviction, this Article shows that undesirable risks often stem from insufficient, rather than excessive, activity. Because negligence requires investments in only cost-justified care, parties might deliberately limit their activity so that the size of the ensuing risk would be lower than the cost of welfare-enhancing precautions. Parties' incentives to strategically restrict their activity levels have striking implications for the inducement of efficient harm prevention. The overlooked paradigm of insufficient activity calls for the imposition of a new form of …
Election Of Remedies In The Twenty-First Century: Centra Health, Inc. V. Mullins, L. Steven Emmert
Election Of Remedies In The Twenty-First Century: Centra Health, Inc. V. Mullins, L. Steven Emmert
University of Richmond Law Review
No abstract provided.
Civil Practice And Procedure, Hon. Jane Marum Roush
Civil Practice And Procedure, Hon. Jane Marum Roush
University of Richmond Law Review
No abstract provided.
Private Production Of Public Goods: Liability For Unrequested Benefits, Ariel Porat
Private Production Of Public Goods: Liability For Unrequested Benefits, Ariel Porat
Michigan Law Review
This Article explores why the law treats negative externalities (harms) and positive externalities (benefits) differently. Ideally, from an economic perspective, both negative and positive externalities should be internalized by those who produce them, for with full internalization, injurers and benefactors alike would behave efficiently. In actuality, however, whereas the law requires that injurers bear the harms they create (or wrongfully create), benefactors are seldom entitled to recover for benefits they voluntarily confer on recipients without the latter's consent ( "unrequested benefits"). One aim of this Article is to explore the puzzle of the law's differing treatment of negative and positive …
A Sea Of Confusion: The Shipowner's Limitation Of Liability Act As An Independent Basis For Admiralty Jurisdiction, Amie L. Medley
A Sea Of Confusion: The Shipowner's Limitation Of Liability Act As An Independent Basis For Admiralty Jurisdiction, Amie L. Medley
Michigan Law Review
The Shipowner's Limitation of Liability Act of 1851 allowed the owner of a vessel to limit his liability in the case of an accident to the value of the vessel and its cargo if he could show he had no knowledge of or participation in the negligent act that resulted in the loss. In 1911, the Supreme Court decided Richardson v. Harmon, a case which was interpreted for several decades to hold that the Limitation Act formed an independent basis for admiralty jurisdiction. In a 1990 case, the Supreme Court stated in a footnote that it would not reach …
Summary Of Webb V. Clark County School District, 125 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 47, Joseph Mott
Summary Of Webb V. Clark County School District, 125 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 47, Joseph Mott
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
Appeal from Eighth Judicial District Court ruling that (1) the Paul D. Coverdell Teacher Protection Act of 2001 (Coverdell Act) is an affirmative defense and (2) expenses for psychological services rendered by an unlicensed person are recoverable.v
The Definition Of "Accident" In Canadian Coverage Cases And The Unspoken "Useful Purpose" Test, Eric J. Adams
The Definition Of "Accident" In Canadian Coverage Cases And The Unspoken "Useful Purpose" Test, Eric J. Adams
Dalhousie Law Journal
Thispaper argues that courts tacitly weigh risks againstrewards when constructing the meaning of the term "accident." It suggests the phrase "courting the risk" takes on two distinct meanings. Firstly, at some point, the risks associated with an activity are said to be so substantial as to suggest an insured expected and, thus, courted any resulting losses.. Secondly, a party is deemed to court the risk of. loss if acting solely for the experience of risk, in and of itself,and not for any other redeeming benefit. The author outlines the evolution of the term "accident" in the case law and contrasts …
Pecuniary Reparations Following National Crisis: A Convergence Of Tort Theory, Microfinance, And Gender Equality, Anita Bernstein
Pecuniary Reparations Following National Crisis: A Convergence Of Tort Theory, Microfinance, And Gender Equality, Anita Bernstein
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Summary Of Rodriguez V. Primadonna Co. Llc, 125 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 45, Keith Pickard
Summary Of Rodriguez V. Primadonna Co. Llc, 125 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 45, Keith Pickard
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
Appeal and cross-appeal from an Eighth Judicial District Court’s grant of summary judgment in a tort action.x-ms
Equal Accountability Through Tort Law, Jason M. Solomon
Equal Accountability Through Tort Law, Jason M. Solomon
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Normativity, Fairness, And The Problem Of Factual Uncertainty, Andrew Botterell, Christopher Essert
Normativity, Fairness, And The Problem Of Factual Uncertainty, Andrew Botterell, Christopher Essert
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
This article concerns the problem of factual uncertainty in negligence law. We argue that negligence law's insistence that fair terms of interaction be maintained between individuals--a requirement that typically manifests itself in the need for the plaintiff to prove factual or "but-for" causation--sometimes allows for the imposition of liability in the absence of such proof. In particular, we argue that the but-for requirement can be abandoned in certain situations where multiple defendants have imposed the same unreasonable risk on a plaintiff, where the plaintiff suffers the very sort of harm that rendered the risk unreasonable, and where the plaintiff cannot …
Unilateral Refusal Of Treatment And Patient Abandonment: Betancourt V. Trinitas Hospital, Brief Of Amicus Curiae, Law Professor Thaddeus Mason Pope, Thaddeus M. Pope
Unilateral Refusal Of Treatment And Patient Abandonment: Betancourt V. Trinitas Hospital, Brief Of Amicus Curiae, Law Professor Thaddeus Mason Pope, Thaddeus M. Pope
Thaddeus Mason Pope
Betancourt v. Tinitas Hospital is now pending before the Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court. Trinitas Hospital is appealing a March 2009 trial court injunction, ordering its physicians to continue providing life-sustaining medical treatment (particularly dialysis) that these providers judged to be medically inappropriate and outside the standard of care.
In early 2009, patient Ruben Betancourt was in a permanent vegetative state with multi-organ failure and slim prospects for recovery. Still, the patient’s daughter, Jacqueline, would not accede to recommendations to stop dialysis and switch to palliative care. When it became apparent that providers might unilaterally withdraw Mr. …
Not Your Mother's Remedy: A Civil Action Response To The Westboro Baptist Church's Military Funeral Demonstrations, Chelsea Brown
Not Your Mother's Remedy: A Civil Action Response To The Westboro Baptist Church's Military Funeral Demonstrations, Chelsea Brown
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Teaching Laws With Flaws: Adopting A Pluralistic Approach To Torts, Taunya Lovell Banks
Teaching Laws With Flaws: Adopting A Pluralistic Approach To Torts, Taunya Lovell Banks
Taunya Lovell Banks
No abstract provided.
Bonding Limited Liability, Robert J. Rhee
Bonding Limited Liability, Robert J. Rhee
Robert Rhee
Limited liability is considered a “birthright” of corporations. The concept is entrenched in legal theory, and it is a fixed reality of the political economy. But it remains controversial. Scholarly debate has been engaged in absolute terms of defending the rule or advocating its abrogation. Though compelling, these polar positions, often expressed in abstract arguments, are associated with disquieting effects. Without limited liability, efficiency may be severely compromised. With it, involuntary tort creditors bear some of the cost of an enterprise. Most other proposals for reforming limited liability have been incremental, such as modifying veil piercing. However, neither absolutism nor …
Coordinating Sanctions In Torts, Kyle D. Logue
Coordinating Sanctions In Torts, Kyle D. Logue
Law & Economics Working Papers Archive: 2003-2009
This Article begins with the canonical law-and-economics account of tort law as a regulatory tool, that is, as a means of giving regulated parties the optimal ex ante incentives to minimize the costs of accidents. Building on this regulatory picture of tort law, the Article asks the question how tort law should coordinate with already existing non-tort systems of regulation. Thus, for example, if a particular activity is already subject to extensive agency-based regulation, regulation that already addresses the negative externalities or other market failures associated with the activity, what regulatory role remains for tort law? Should tort law in …
Concausa, Corresponsabilidad Y Participación: ¿Responden Los Autores, Cómplices E Instigadores Solidariamente? Una Aproximación Hacia Un Análisis De Lege Ferenda, Alan A. Pasco Arauco
Concausa, Corresponsabilidad Y Participación: ¿Responden Los Autores, Cómplices E Instigadores Solidariamente? Una Aproximación Hacia Un Análisis De Lege Ferenda, Alan A. Pasco Arauco
Alan A. Pasco Arauco
No abstract provided.
Litigation Realities Redux, Kevin M. Clermont
Litigation Realities Redux, Kevin M. Clermont
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Both summarizing recent empirical work and presenting new observations on each of the six phases of a civil lawsuit (forum, pretrial, settlement, trial, judgment, and appeal), the author stresses the needs for and benefits from understanding and using empirical methods in the study of the adjudicatory system's operation.
The Unintended Consequence Of Tort Reform In Michigan: An Argument For Reinstating Retailer Product Liability, Ashley L. Thompson
The Unintended Consequence Of Tort Reform In Michigan: An Argument For Reinstating Retailer Product Liability, Ashley L. Thompson
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Tort reform became an important issue during the 1994 Congressional Campaign as part of the Republican Party's "Contract with America. "Since then, many federal and state laws have attempted to reduce both liability and recovery in tort actions. In 1996, Michigan passed the Tort Reform Act, encompassing many drastic changes to state tort law. One provision of the Act, § 294 7, scaled back liability against non-manufacturing retailers in product liability actions. The Michigan Supreme Court interpreted the exceptions of the law narrowly and the prohibition broadly, essentially barring recovery from retailers. Since 1996, this provision has prevented victims injured …
Stepping Beyond The Smith Plaintiffs‘ Reliance On Corso: An Alternative Approach To Recovering Emotional-Distress Damages In Wrongful-Birth Cases In New Hampshire, Parker B. Potter Jr.
Stepping Beyond The Smith Plaintiffs‘ Reliance On Corso: An Alternative Approach To Recovering Emotional-Distress Damages In Wrongful-Birth Cases In New Hampshire, Parker B. Potter Jr.
The University of New Hampshire Law Review
[Excerpt] “More than twenty years ago, in Smith v. Cote, the New Hampshire Supreme Court held “that New Hampshire recognizes a cause of action for wrongful birth.” After so holding, the court then discussed the damages available to a prevailing wrongful-birth plaintiff. Among other things, the court held that when parental emotional distress associated with raising a disabled child, born after the mother had received negligent pre-natal assurance of the baby‘s normal health, “results in tangible pecuniary losses, such as medical expenses or counseling fees, such losses are recoverable.” The court further held that a wrongful-birth plaintiff may not recover …
Cuarto Congreso Nacional De Organismos Públicos Autónomos, Bruno L. Costantini García
Cuarto Congreso Nacional De Organismos Públicos Autónomos, Bruno L. Costantini García
Bruno L. Costantini García
Memorias del Cuarto Congreso Nacional de Organismos Públicos Autónomos
"El papel de los Organismos Públicos Autónomos en la Consolidación de la Democracia"
Restraining False Light: Constitutional And Common Law Limits On A "Troublesome Tort", James B. Lake
Restraining False Light: Constitutional And Common Law Limits On A "Troublesome Tort", James B. Lake
Federal Communications Law Journal
The defamation tort is the common law's established remedy for false speech that causes reputational and emotional injury. That tort is subject to intricate constitutional, legislative, and common law rules that have evolved over decades. The false light invasion of privacy tort also provides a potential cause of action in response to injurious falsehood. False light, however, has been subject to much less judicial and legislative scrutiny than defamation. As a result, courts often are uncertain about the proper limits on false light and, in some cases, have countenanced false light claims that would have failed if filed as defamation …
Res Ipsa Loquitur In The Restatement (Third) Of Torts: Liability Based Upon Naked Statistics Rather Than Real Evidence, Daniel J. Pylman
Res Ipsa Loquitur In The Restatement (Third) Of Torts: Liability Based Upon Naked Statistics Rather Than Real Evidence, Daniel J. Pylman
Chicago-Kent Law Review
Using the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur, courts have accounted for the fact that there may be instances where a plaintiff is unable to present any evidence of a specific negligent act or omission and yet where the injury to the plaintiff and the surrounding circumstances suggest that the defendant did in fact negligently cause the injury. Despite the fact that the doctrine of res ipsa has been well-accepted by American courts, the courts have struggled to appropriately formulate the doctrine so as to achieve its important purpose of allowing recovery in appropriate situations while not formulating it so …