Catherine Sharkey, Segal Family Professor of Regulatory Law and Policy at NYU School of Law, has posted to SSRN her book chapter, Common Law Tort as a Transitional Regulatory Regime: A New Perspective ...

On May 11, attorneys general from 21 states wrote to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s chair and ranking member, requesting federal liability protection to help mitigate the threat of frivolous ...

The court also analogized the reasoning in Ouellette to the CAA. In distinguishing American Electric Power, where the Supreme Court held CAA preempted federal common law, 12 the Iowa court concluded ...

Ellie Bublick has posted to SSRN her contribution to the Journal of Tort Law's "The State of Tort Theory" symposium, Tort Common Law Future: Preventing Harm and Providing Redress to the Uncounted ...

What relevance does a tort doctrine from the late Middle Ages hold for modern electronic forms of property like digital assets? Quite a bit, it turns out. Recent court rulings show the venerable ...

A three-judge panel for the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today two plaintiffs can file a lawsuit over pollution from a power plant even if the plant is compliant with the Clean Air Act, stating ...

Mass tort law firms depend on lead generation to fuel growth and secure new cases. But turning advertising dollars into qualified clients isn’t ...

My view is that federal courts' common-lawmaking power in foreign affairs means that a broad delegation to define law-of-nations torts, as in the Alien Tort Statute, doesn't violate the non-delegation ...

Consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader recently opened a museum filled with items like defective toys and unsafe machines all tied together under a unifying theme: tort law.

Recent appellate rulings in the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Ninth and Third Circuits have curtailed session replay and web tracking class actions, holding that plaintiffs failed to establish ...

Trucks queuing at a container terminal gate. (photo courtesy of the Port of Los Angeles) SAINT PAUL, Minn. (CN) — Minnesota joined the slight majority of states that recognize tort claims for ...