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Products Liability Law In Georgia Including Recent Developments, Robert M. Travis, Edward C. Brewer Iii

Mercer Law Review

This Article contains both a summary of products liability law in Georgia and a general overview of recent significant decisions in the products liability area. The authors' objective is to acquaint the reader with products liability law in Georgia and to review important new decisions which affect this rapidly evolving area.

• Theories of Recovery
• Parties in Product Liability Actions
• Defenses
• Damages

Torts, Cynthia Trimboli Adams, Charles R. Adams Iii

Mercer Law Review

It was a survey period marked by the lack of reconciliation. As always, the victims of civil wrongs other than breaches of contract, unreconciled to the perpetrators of those wrongs, sought redress instead 'in the courts, especially, for present purposes, the appellate courts. Plaintiffs remained unreconciled to the limitations on their rights in malpractice cases and prosecuted more appeals than ever in this burgeoning legal field. Defendants of many stripes, and some plaintiffs, too, unreconciled to the litigational tactics of their adversaries, continued to flood the courts with allegations of abusive litigation. The courts themselves, apparently unreconciled to some of …

Zinermon V. Burch: Putting Brackets Around The Parratt Doctrine, Edward Reidar Stabell Iii

Mercer Law Review

In Zinermon v. Burch, the Supreme Court addressed whether an adequate postdeprivation state tort law remedy provided all the process that was due to a federal claimant seeking redress for the alleged deprivation of his liberty by the wanton and reckless acts of officials charged by the State with providing predeprivation process. The majority, in an opinion written by Justice Blackmun, held that, when the erroneous deprivation was effected by the very officials responsible under state law for providing predeprivation process, the officials may not escape liability by claiming that it is impossible for the State to provide predeprivation …