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The Heavy Hand Of Amazon: A Seller Not A Neutral Platform, Aaron D. Twerski, Edward J. Janger
The Heavy Hand Of Amazon: A Seller Not A Neutral Platform, Aaron D. Twerski, Edward J. Janger
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Public Official, Figures, And Controversies In Minnesota Defamation Law, Michael K. Steenson
Public Official, Figures, And Controversies In Minnesota Defamation Law, Michael K. Steenson
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In Minnesota, the plaintiff in a common law defamation claim is entitled to recover presumed damages in libel and slander per se cases. Those rules change when the First Amendment is injected into defamation cases when the plaintiff is a public official or figure or is a private person involved in a public controversy. A plaintiff who is a public official or figure must prove not only the elements of the common law defamation claim, but also that the defamatory communication was a false statement of fact and prove by clear and convincing evidence that it was made with actual …
Guns In The Private Square, Cody Jacobs
Guns In The Private Square, Cody Jacobs
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The regulation of guns has been one of the most hotly debated public policy issues in the United States throughout the country’s history. But, up until recently, it has always been just that — a debate about public policy. Two recent developments have changed the landscape and moved the debate about publicly carrying firearms from the realm of public policy, to the realm of private decision-making and private law. First, laws related to publicly carrying firearms have been dramatically loosened throughout the United States to the point that, in the vast majority of states, anyone who is legally allowed to …
Protecting Local News Outlets From Fatal Legal Expenses, Nicole J. Ligon
Protecting Local News Outlets From Fatal Legal Expenses, Nicole J. Ligon
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As lawsuits targeting the press continue to rise in response to today’s political climate, local news outlets are more likely to find themselves facing unexpected legal expenses. Although the national news media can generally weather the costs of libel lawsuits and subpoena requests, smaller news outlets have gone bankrupt or barely escaped such a fate while paying off legal fees, even when these outlets have ultimately been successful in their legal battles. Because local news outlets serve a critical role in underserved communities and are powerful agents of positive social change, they ought to be protected against fatal legal expenses. …
Is Tort Law The Tool For Fixing Reproductive Wrongs?, Christopher Robertson
Is Tort Law The Tool For Fixing Reproductive Wrongs?, Christopher Robertson
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In his 2019 book, Birth Rights and Wrongs: How Medicine and Technology are Remaking Reproduction and the Law, Dov Fox offers a compelling argument for new torts allowing recovery for wrongful reproduction. These torts would include three sorts of cases, those where wrongdoing (whether negligent, reckless, or intentional) caused undesired reproduction; stymied desired reproduction; or confounded reproduction, causing birth of a child different than that intended by the parents. The likely defendants in these torts are gynecologists, urologists, sperm banks, and IVF clinics.
Ordinary Tort Litigation In China: Law Versus Practical Justice?, Benjamin L. Liebman
Ordinary Tort Litigation In China: Law Versus Practical Justice?, Benjamin L. Liebman
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This essay examines the roles courts play in tort litigation in China, in particular in litigation resulting from death and injury on China’s roads. At first glance traffic accident litigation in China appears to be an area in which courts play minor roles. The police, not courts, are the primary fact-finders. China’s mandatory automobile insurance system has clear guidelines for compensation levels and imposes nearly strict liability in most traffic accident cases. Courts’ roles are, at least in law, largely relegated to calculating damages. Chinese law provides schedules for assessing damages based on average local income levels, and thus outcomes …
Rule By Data: The End Of Markets?, Katharina Pistor
Rule By Data: The End Of Markets?, Katharina Pistor
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This Article explores data as a source and, in their processed variant, as a means of governance that will likely replace both markets and the law. Discussing data not as an object of transactions or an object of governance, but as a tool for governing others on a scale that rivals that of nation states with their law, seems a fitting topic for a special issue that is devoted to the legal construction of markets. Here, I argue that while it may well be the case that law constitutes markets, markets are not the only way in which economic relations …