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Articles 1 - 22 of 22
Full-Text Articles in Law
Allocating Liability Among Multiple Responsible Causes: A Principled Defense Of Joint And Several Liability For Actual Harm And Risk Exposure, Richard W. Wright
Allocating Liability Among Multiple Responsible Causes: A Principled Defense Of Joint And Several Liability For Actual Harm And Risk Exposure, Richard W. Wright
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Causation, Responsibility, Risk, Probability, Naked Statistics, And Proof: Pruning The Bramble Bush By Clarifying The Concepts, Richard W. Wright
Causation, Responsibility, Risk, Probability, Naked Statistics, And Proof: Pruning The Bramble Bush By Clarifying The Concepts, Richard W. Wright
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Absolute Immunity For State-Law Torts Under Westfall V. Erwin: How Much Discretion Is Enough?, Karl R. Rábago
Absolute Immunity For State-Law Torts Under Westfall V. Erwin: How Much Discretion Is Enough?, Karl R. Rábago
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
The plaintiff who seeks to maintain an action in tort against a federal employee has basically two choices. First, after complying with various procedural requirements, the plaintiff may initiate suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) against the United States. The act is a waiver of sovereign immunity and, in spite of the existence of exceptions to its coverage, has generally been interpreted broadly.
The other alternative available to the plaintiff is a suit against the employee in his individual capacity based upon either state-law or constitutional tort. One of the employee's first lines of defense against such actions …
Negligent Accounting And The Limits Of Instrumental Tort Reform, John A. Siliciano
Negligent Accounting And The Limits Of Instrumental Tort Reform, John A. Siliciano
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Legal Implications Of Epilepsy, H. Richard Beresford
Legal Implications Of Epilepsy, H. Richard Beresford
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Physicians who care for patients with epilepsy may function as agents or targets of social control. As agents, they may assist in the identification and control of epileptic drivers, may provide information that enables fair and appropriate job placements for epileptic persons, and give testimony that helps the legal system resolve issues relating to the liability of epileptic persons for harm attributed to seizures or interictal behavioral disturbances. As targets, they may be charged with negligent failure to diagnose, treat, or inform about epilepsy or its associated problems, with failure to exercise due care in protecting persons harmed by their …
Explaining Constitutional Tort Litigation: The Influence Of The Attorney Fees Statute And The Government As Defendant, Stewart J. Schwab, Theodore Eisenberg
Explaining Constitutional Tort Litigation: The Influence Of The Attorney Fees Statute And The Government As Defendant, Stewart J. Schwab, Theodore Eisenberg
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Drug Product Liability And Health Care Delivery Systems, William M. Sage
Drug Product Liability And Health Care Delivery Systems, William M. Sage
Faculty Scholarship
This note will use the principles of law and economics to examine the interaction of market structures and product liability rules in a world of imperfect information. The goals of the analysis are to create incentives for optimal care by producers and consumers, induce the socially appropriate amount of consumption of each product (often referred to as the "activity level"), and minimize the costs of bearing the risk of injury. The note will conclude that the existence of health maintenance organizations ("HMOs") and similar prepaid providers with superior information capacity and total patient care responsibility may create a context in …
Will We Lose The War Against Asbestos In Buildings?, Assembly Office Of Research
Will We Lose The War Against Asbestos In Buildings?, Assembly Office Of Research
California Assembly
No abstract provided.
Informed Decision-Making And The Law Of Torts: The Myth Of Justiciable Causation, Aaron Twerski, N. B. Cohen
Informed Decision-Making And The Law Of Torts: The Myth Of Justiciable Causation, Aaron Twerski, N. B. Cohen
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Accidents Do Happen: Hazardous Technology And International Tort Litigation, Stephen C. Mccaffrey
Accidents Do Happen: Hazardous Technology And International Tort Litigation, Stephen C. Mccaffrey
McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles
No abstract provided.
Brown V. Abbott Laboratories And Strict Products Liability, J. Clark Kelso
Brown V. Abbott Laboratories And Strict Products Liability, J. Clark Kelso
McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles
No abstract provided.
Products Liability Law In Minnesota: Design Defect And Failure To Warn Claims, Michael K. Steenson
Products Liability Law In Minnesota: Design Defect And Failure To Warn Claims, Michael K. Steenson
Faculty Scholarship
The Minnesota law of products liability underwent significant changes in the 1980s. The courts filled in gaps left open since the Minnesota Supreme Court initially adopted strict liability in McCormack v. Hankscraft Co.' in 1967, but they also raised new issues and left other issues open. This Article analyzes these developments in Minnesota products liability law. The broad focus is on standards in design and warning cases. In the course of the analysis, the Article focuses on the issues that had been left unsettled in Minnesota law in those areas. The Article first addresses the elements of a strict liability …
Forum Shopping In Products Liability Actions: A Comparison Between The United States, France And Germany, Lothar W. Baum
Forum Shopping In Products Liability Actions: A Comparison Between The United States, France And Germany, Lothar W. Baum
LLM Theses and Essays
The goal of this research is to state the current situation concerning products liability in the United States, the Federal Republic of Germany and more briefly, France and to compare the different systems. Emphasis will be given to the substantive laws, in particular to the new EC Directive and its adoption in the Federal Republic of Germany. Also, it will discuss the current German law, since this will be valid for all claims initiated before the enactment of the new ProdHaftG. Further, based on the previous analysis, it will be shown where a consumer is in the most favorable position …
Tort Litigation And Social Change: Accidents And Trial Court Litigation In West Virginia, 1870-1940, Frank W. Munger
Tort Litigation And Social Change: Accidents And Trial Court Litigation In West Virginia, 1870-1940, Frank W. Munger
Articles & Chapters
No abstract provided.
Privacy, Charles E. Cantú
Aids And The Law: Setting And Evaluating Threshold Standards For Coercive Public Health Intervention, Eric S. Janus
Aids And The Law: Setting And Evaluating Threshold Standards For Coercive Public Health Intervention, Eric S. Janus
Faculty Scholarship
This article examines in detail an example of legislation that redefines the scope of permissible public health intervention and provides procedural protections compatible with modern precedent—the Minnesota Health Threat Procedures Act. This Act is an appropriate subject for close study because it is intended to be responsive to the general concerns raised by the commentators: the narrowing redefinition of the scope of coercive public health intervention and the addition of suitable procedural protections. Coercive public health legislation merits close attention because it inevitably invokes a clash of three important values. The purpose of the legislation is the protection of the …
Employer Abuse, Worker Resistance, And The Tort Of Intentional Infliction Of Emotional Distress, Regina Austin
Employer Abuse, Worker Resistance, And The Tort Of Intentional Infliction Of Emotional Distress, Regina Austin
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Recasting Behavior: An Essay For Beginning Law Students, Robert H. Heidt
Recasting Behavior: An Essay For Beginning Law Students, Robert H. Heidt
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Cigarette Company Liability: Preemption, Public Policy And Alternative Compensation Systems, Richard C. Ausness
Cigarette Company Liability: Preemption, Public Policy And Alternative Compensation Systems, Richard C. Ausness
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
This Article speculates that some courts may have used the preemption doctrine to mask their misgivings about the ability of tort litigation to provide fair compensation to injured consumers without bankrupting the tobacco industry. Consequently, the author suggests that it may be necessary to streamline the litigation process for mass torts or perhaps even to replace it with an alternative compensation system for the purpose of adjudicating smoking-related claims.
With this in mind, Part I briefly examines the health risks of smoking and the nature of the common law duty to warn. It also reviews a number of recent cigarette …
Rediscovering Traditional Tort Typologies To Determine Media Liability For Physical Injuries: From The Mickey Mouse Club To Hustler Magazine, John L. Diamond
Rediscovering Traditional Tort Typologies To Determine Media Liability For Physical Injuries: From The Mickey Mouse Club To Hustler Magazine, John L. Diamond
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Accountable Accountants: Is Third-Party Liability Necessary?, Victor P. Goldberg
Accountable Accountants: Is Third-Party Liability Necessary?, Victor P. Goldberg
Faculty Scholarship
Should accountants be liable to third parties if they conduct an audit in negligent manner? A half century ago, in Ultramares Corporation v. Touche, Niven & Co., Cardozo argued that they should not, unless their performance could be characterized as fraud. In recent years, courts in a minority of jurisdictions have concluded that Cardozo's argument is no longer compelling and they have found that "foreseeable" third parties could bring a tort action for ordinary negligence against the accountants. In addition to being subject to tort actions, accountants may also be liable under federal and state securities laws.
Suits against …
A Seed Germinates: Unjust Discharge Reform Heads Toward Full Flower, Theodore J. St. Antoine
A Seed Germinates: Unjust Discharge Reform Heads Toward Full Flower, Theodore J. St. Antoine
Articles
In this paper, I shall briefly review the nature and limitations of the theories most frequently invoked by the courts in dealing with wrongful dismissal. I shall then examine the major arguments for and against a general overhaul of the doctrine of employment at will. Lastly, I shall discuss some of the particular questions that will have to be addressed in fashioning a statutory solution.