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Consortium And Workers’ Compensation: The Demolition Of Consortium, Michael Green, David M. Layman 2020 Louisiana State University Law Center

Consortium And Workers’ Compensation: The Demolition Of Consortium, Michael Green, David M. Layman

Louisiana Law Review

The article discusses issues on spousal consortium claims and workers' compensation in the U.S., including the aspects of compensation for accidental injuries and tort claims.


Doj Blows The Whistle On Professional Whistleblowers: But The Circuits Are Split On Whether Dismissals Will Be Swift, Jennifer Harchut 2020 Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law

Doj Blows The Whistle On Professional Whistleblowers: But The Circuits Are Split On Whether Dismissals Will Be Swift, Jennifer Harchut

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


Respondeat Superior Vicarious Liability For Clergy Sexual Abuse: Four Approaches, Patrick Hornbeck 2020 Fordham University

Respondeat Superior Vicarious Liability For Clergy Sexual Abuse: Four Approaches, Patrick Hornbeck

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review 2020 Seattle University School of Law

Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review

Seattle University Law Review

Table of Contents


"Alexa, Call My Lawyer!" Determining Liability For Unauthorized Purchases Made On Voice-Based Virtual Assistants, Mark Giancaspro 2020 University of Adelaide

"Alexa, Call My Lawyer!" Determining Liability For Unauthorized Purchases Made On Voice-Based Virtual Assistants, Mark Giancaspro

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


The (Surprisingly) Prevalent Role Of States In An Era Of Federalized Class Actions, Linda S. Mullenix 2020 Brigham Young University Law School

The (Surprisingly) Prevalent Role Of States In An Era Of Federalized Class Actions, Linda S. Mullenix

BYU Law Review

In enacting the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA), Congress intended to expand access to the federal courts for interstate class actions by creating minimal diversity and removal jurisdiction. In Section 2 of the Act, “Findings and Purposes,” Congress stated that class action abuses undermined “the concept of diversity jurisdiction as intended by the Framers of the United States Constitution” in that state courts kept cases of national importance out of federal court and sometimes demonstrated bias against out-of-state defendants. Congress stated that a purpose of CAFA was to “restore the intent of the framers of the United States …


Class Actions, Jurisdiction, And Principle In Doctrinal Design, David Marcus, Will Ostrander 2020 Brigham Young University Law School

Class Actions, Jurisdiction, And Principle In Doctrinal Design, David Marcus, Will Ostrander

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Forward: State Enforcement In An Interstate World, Margaret H. Lemos 2020 Brigham Young University Law School

Forward: State Enforcement In An Interstate World, Margaret H. Lemos

BYU Law Review

“State Enforcement in an Interstate World” is an important topic—fully deserving of all the attention it has received. Past commentators on this topic have generally treated the federal government as a unitary entity. Building on prior work on the subject, this Article explores the polycentric nature of federal regulatory authority and shows how cooperation and rivalry have long been dominant realities of the modern administrative state. The Article discusses how these dynamics complicate analysis of state enforcement in an interstate world and identifies strategies for reducing the frequency and magnitude of the seemingly inevitable conflicts.


The Preemptive Effect Of The Cisg On Tort Claims Under Us Law, Phutchaya Numngern 2020 Maurer School of Law - Indiana University

The Preemptive Effect Of The Cisg On Tort Claims Under Us Law, Phutchaya Numngern

Maurer Theses and Dissertations

This thesis emphasizes a core concept of the preemptive effect that uniform law may have on other domestic norms. It exemplifies the situation in which the laws and principles of contracts, particularly the uniform laws and principles formulated for transnational sales, can exclude or limit tort liability. This study does not object to the recognition of concurrency of claims under contract and tort law. On the contrary, it accepts that the contracting party’s right to both contract and tort actions is commonly recognized in many legal systems, especially the common law system. Tort liability could be actionable insofar as the …


Designing Analog Learning Games: Genre Affordances, Limitations And Multi-Game Approaches, Owen Gottlieb, Ian Schreiber 2020 Rochester Institute of Technology

Designing Analog Learning Games: Genre Affordances, Limitations And Multi-Game Approaches, Owen Gottlieb, Ian Schreiber

Articles

This chapter explores what the authors discovered about analog games and game design during the many iterative processes that have led to the Lost & Found series, and how they found certain constraints and affordances (that which an artifact assists, promotes or allows) provided by the boardgame genre. Some findings were counter-intuitive. What choices would allow for the modeling of complex systems, such as legal and economic systems? What choices would allow for gameplay within the time of a class-period? What mechanics could promote discussions of tradeoff decisions? If players are expending too much cognition on arithmetic strategizing, could that …


Study On The Mechanism Of Compensation Fund System For Shipping Oil Pollution Damage In China And International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds, Haiyue Shu 2020 World Maritime University

Study On The Mechanism Of Compensation Fund System For Shipping Oil Pollution Damage In China And International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds, Haiyue Shu

Maritime Safety & Environment Management Dissertations (Dalian)

No abstract provided.


Intended Injury: Transferred Intent And Reliance In Climate Change Fraud, Wes Henricksen 2020 Barry University School of Law

Intended Injury: Transferred Intent And Reliance In Climate Change Fraud, Wes Henricksen

Arkansas Law Review

"For an intended injury the law is astute to discover even very remote causation." - Justice Thurgood Marshall

ExxonMobil, the world's largest oil company, misled the public about climate change for at least two decades. Several states' attorneys general have opened investigations into the potential criminality of the company's conduct. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has opened its own investigation. Criminal or not, however, ExxonMobil's conduct closely resembles schemes carried out by the tobacco, asbestos, opioid, sugar, and leaded gasoline industries, among others. The scheme is always the same: there is a product that is both profitable and destructive, …


Practical Alternatives To The Rule Of Joint And Several Liability: Regulatory Negligence As A Case Study, Boaz Segal 2020 Faculty of Law, Sapir Academic College and Zefat Academic College

Practical Alternatives To The Rule Of Joint And Several Liability: Regulatory Negligence As A Case Study, Boaz Segal

Buffalo Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Money For Justice: Plaintiffs' Lawyers And Social Justice Tort Litigation, Gilat J. Bachar 2020 Stanford Law School

Money For Justice: Plaintiffs' Lawyers And Social Justice Tort Litigation, Gilat J. Bachar

Cardozo Law Review

Tort lawsuits brought in response to social injustice occasionally generate incentives for entrepreneurial plaintiffs' lawyers to get involved in the litigation. What ethical responsibilities do such lawyers navigate in this space? And to what extent are they interested in, and well-positioned to produce, social change? The Article addresses these questions using a previously uncharted case study on civil actions for damages filed by Palestinians against the Israeli government. Through fifty-five in-depth, semi structured interviews with the various types of lawyers involved in the litigation, alongside quantitative analysis of an original dataset of 300 judicial opinions, the Article reveals how fee-for-service …


Claim Preclusion And The Problem Of Fictional Consent, Lindsey D. Simon 2020 University of Georgia School of Law

Claim Preclusion And The Problem Of Fictional Consent, Lindsey D. Simon

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Airline Deregulation In The Fourth Circuit, Timothy M. Ravich 2020 University of Central Florida

Airline Deregulation In The Fourth Circuit, Timothy M. Ravich

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.


Tort Law, Amirthalingam KUMARALINGAM, Gary Kok Yew CHAN 2020 National University of Singapore

Tort Law, Amirthalingam Kumaralingam, Gary Kok Yew Chan

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

This review examines the ten most significant decisions in tort law for 2020. It was an interesting year for the range of significant decisions in tort law handed down by the courts on matters including limitation period, medical negligence, the scope of duty in negligence, breach of confidence, conspiracy, and defamation.


Reconsidering Wrongful Birth, Luke Isaac Haqq 2020 History of Medicine Program, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Reconsidering Wrongful Birth, Luke Isaac Haqq

Notre Dame Law Review Reflection

The tort action for “wrongful birth” has a history dating back at least to the

1960s, when it emerged along with the claims for “wrongful life” and “wrongful

conception.” Since their incipience, this trio of lawsuits has generated an expansive

commentary, reaching into thousands of articles in the legal literature alone. With a

divide among federal circuits on wrongful birth only beginning to gain visibility with

Doherty v. Merck & Co. in 2018 and Zelt v. Xytex Corp. in 2019, the wrongful

birth claim could potentially provide a site for the Supreme Court to revisit national

abortion policy.

The …


The Heavy Hand Of Amazon: A Seller Not A Neutral Platform, Edward J. Janger, Aaron D. Twerski 2020 Brooklyn Law School

The Heavy Hand Of Amazon: A Seller Not A Neutral Platform, Edward J. Janger, Aaron D. Twerski

Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law

Since the adoption of Section 402A of the Second Restatement of Torts, every party in a product’s distribution chain has been potentially liable for injuries caused by product defects. Consumers who buy from reputable sellers are almost always guaranteed to have a solvent defendant if injured by a product defect. Amazon, though responsible for a vast number of retail sales, has sought to avoid liability by claiming that it is not a seller but a neutral platform that merely facilitates third-party sales to consumers. With two significant exceptions, most courts have sided with Amazon and concluded that Amazon is not …


Mass Torts: Dispute Resolution In France And The United States--The Vioxx And Mediator Cases Compared, Fred Einbinder Mr. 2020 American University of Paris

Mass Torts: Dispute Resolution In France And The United States--The Vioxx And Mediator Cases Compared, Fred Einbinder Mr.

Washington International Law Journal

Dispute resolution in legal systems has largely been designed for handling issues between small groups of individuals or organizations. Obtaining legal redress for those injured by mass torts and using the law as a means to prevent future occurrences has presented challenges for the development of effective dispute resolution mechanisms to obtain relief for plaintiffs and deter future tortfeasors. A comparison of French and American mass tort law and practice offers a fertile field for useful comparative study given the significant differences in approach taken by each country’s legal system. These differences derive as much from history, politics, the attitudes …


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