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Wrongful Death And Survival Actions For Torts In Violation Of International Law, Alastair J. Agcaoili 2013 University of San Diego

Wrongful Death And Survival Actions For Torts In Violation Of International Law, Alastair J. Agcaoili

San Diego Law Review

This Article aims to make sense of this neglected area of ATS law. I contend that the salient issue in these deceased-victim cases is not whether the nonvictim plaintiffs have standing to sue but rather whether they have a viable cause of action in the first place. Standing and cause of action concepts have an uneasy relationship in law. Although the distinction between constitutional standing and cause of action inquiries is well established, the division is less clear where, as here, standing doctrine is used to define a plaintiff’s eligibility to bring suit. Indeed, reliance on standing terminology in this …


Summary Of Cucinotta V. Deloitte & Touche, Llp, 129 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 35, Sean Africk 2013 Nevada Law Journal

Summary Of Cucinotta V. Deloitte & Touche, Llp, 129 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 35, Sean Africk

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

In an appeal from a district court order granting summary judgment in a defamation case, the Court considered whether information divulged by a registered accounting firm in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 is subject to an absolute privilege.


Letting The Apes Run The Zoo: Using Tort Law To Provide Animals With A Legal Voice, Tania Rice 2013 Pepperdine University

Letting The Apes Run The Zoo: Using Tort Law To Provide Animals With A Legal Voice, Tania Rice

Pepperdine Law Review

Science is increasingly showing us that animals have many cognitive similarities with humans. In addition to calls for changes in our animal protection statutes, members of the legal community have begun debating over whether animals, or a certain category of animals, should be granted legal rights. This approach has the potential for drastic societal ramifications. David S. Favre has proposed a tort action for animals as a compromise to the animal rights debate. This Comment explores the different approaches to seeking improved conditions for animals, and proposes an adjusted tort cause of action in response to criticisms of Favre's tort.


Steed V. Imperial Airlines, Clay Plotkin 2013 Pepperdine University

Steed V. Imperial Airlines, Clay Plotkin

Pepperdine Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Battered Child Syndrome, Jerry A. Ramsey, Byron J. Lawler 2013 Pepperdine University

The Battered Child Syndrome, Jerry A. Ramsey, Byron J. Lawler

Pepperdine Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Constitutional Infirmity Of The California Government Claim Statute, James C. Downing, Nikolai Tehin Jr. 2013 Pepperdine University

The Constitutional Infirmity Of The California Government Claim Statute, James C. Downing, Nikolai Tehin Jr.

Pepperdine Law Review

No abstract provided.


Infant Pain And Suffering: The Valuation Dilemma, Peter N. Kalionzes 2013 Pepperdine University

Infant Pain And Suffering: The Valuation Dilemma, Peter N. Kalionzes

Pepperdine Law Review

No abstract provided.


Remedy For The Intentional Torts Of A Workmen's Compensation Carrier, Everett E. Demler 2013 Pepperdine University

Remedy For The Intentional Torts Of A Workmen's Compensation Carrier, Everett E. Demler

Pepperdine Law Review

No abstract provided.


Losing The Struggle To Define The Proper Balance Between The Law Of Defamation And The First Amendment - Gertz V. Robert Welch, Inc.: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, Douglas B. Large, Kristopher Kallman 2013 Pepperdine University

Losing The Struggle To Define The Proper Balance Between The Law Of Defamation And The First Amendment - Gertz V. Robert Welch, Inc.: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, Douglas B. Large, Kristopher Kallman

Pepperdine Law Review

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A Prescription Warning, Carlton Lee Harpst 2013 Pepperdine University

A Prescription Warning, Carlton Lee Harpst

Pepperdine Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Landlord's Tort Liability For Injuries Caused By Defects Upon The Demised Premises , Michael K. McKibbin 2013 Pepperdine University

The Landlord's Tort Liability For Injuries Caused By Defects Upon The Demised Premises , Michael K. Mckibbin

Pepperdine Law Review

No abstract provided.


California's Response For Wrongful Death Of A Stillborn Fetus: Justus V. Atchison, Phyllis A. Dow 2013 Pepperdine University

California's Response For Wrongful Death Of A Stillborn Fetus: Justus V. Atchison, Phyllis A. Dow

Pepperdine Law Review

No abstract provided.


Comparative Fault And Strict Products Liability: Are They Compatible?, C. R. Hickey 2013 Pepperdine University

Comparative Fault And Strict Products Liability: Are They Compatible?, C. R. Hickey

Pepperdine Law Review

No abstract provided.


Management's Right To Resort To Injunctive Relief And Self-Help In Order To Prevent Trespassory Union Activity: An Examination Of May Department Stores Co. V. Teamsters Union Local No. 743, Frank J. D'Oro Jr 2013 Pepperdine University

Management's Right To Resort To Injunctive Relief And Self-Help In Order To Prevent Trespassory Union Activity: An Examination Of May Department Stores Co. V. Teamsters Union Local No. 743, Frank J. D'Oro Jr

Pepperdine Law Review

No abstract provided.


Emergence Of The "Tender Years" Doctrine: Too Young To Drink, But Capable Of Escaping The Civil Consequences?, William R. Slomanson 2013 Pepperdine University

Emergence Of The "Tender Years" Doctrine: Too Young To Drink, But Capable Of Escaping The Civil Consequences?, William R. Slomanson

Pepperdine Law Review

No abstract provided.


How Long Is Forever This Time? The Broken Promise Of Bankruptcy Trusts, S. Todd Brown 2013 University at Buffalo School of Law

How Long Is Forever This Time? The Broken Promise Of Bankruptcy Trusts, S. Todd Brown

Journal Articles

Bankruptcy trusts consistently fail to protect the interests of future claimants as contemplated by Section 524(g) of the Bankruptcy Code. Although this reality is generally understood, the extent of this failure has not been examined. And, as demonstrated in this study, the degree to which trusts are failing future victims is greater than commonly realized. More than two-thirds of the trusts that have completed their initial claims processing are paying new asbestos personal injury victims at or near historically low rates, and several others appear to be defunct or inactive. Nearly two-thirds of the trusts that remain active have reduced …


Intimate Liability: Emotional Harm, Family Law, And Stereotyped Narratives In Interspousal Torts, Fernanda G. Nicola 2013 William & Mary Law School

Intimate Liability: Emotional Harm, Family Law, And Stereotyped Narratives In Interspousal Torts, Fernanda G. Nicola

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

Tort liability expanded in the twentieth century, a shift scholars generally attribute to the reorganization of tort law around the fault principle. In privileging compensation and deterrence, this reconfiguration ended various restrictions on liability, long viewed as arbitrary, including limits to the recovery for emotional harm and interspousal immunities. Tort and family law scholars alike portray the end of such immunities as a milestone for gender equality. Their elimination enables spouses and partners to secure compensation for emotional and physical abuse arising in intimate relationships. Yet, tort law is not operating in this way. On the contrary, by endorsing a …


Mining, Uranium, Bert Chapman 2013 Purdue University

Mining, Uranium, Bert Chapman

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

Provides an overview of uranium mining's role and influence in the American West with comparative information on uranium mining in foreign countries.


Adequately Representing Groups, Elizabeth Chamblee Burch 2013 University of Georgia School of Law

Adequately Representing Groups, Elizabeth Chamblee Burch

Scholarly Works

Adequate representation and preclusion depend on whether the courts treat a litigant as part of a group experiencing an aggregate harm or as a distinct person suffering individual injuries. And though a vast literature about adequate representation exists in the class-action context, it thins dramatically when contemplating other forms of group litigation, such as parens patriae actions and multidistrict litigation. As class actions have gradually fallen into disfavor and attorneys and commentators seek alternative means for resolving group harms, the relative clarity of Rule 23 wanes. How should courts evaluate adequate representation in parens patriae actions and in multidistrict litigation? …


Workers' Compensation: Alternatives Are Limited, Irvin Stander 2013 Pepperdine University

Workers' Compensation: Alternatives Are Limited, Irvin Stander

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

No abstract provided.


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