Examples of Tort Law A Liability Case . In February 2016, a self-driving car made by Google crashed into a bus in Mountain View, Calif. The car sensed a group of sandbags positioned around a storm ...

A tort is any civil wrong for which the law provides a remedy. Torts provide compensation for injuries to persons and property caused by the fault of another. There have always been concerns about ...

Professor Cristina Tilley (Iowa Law) has posted to SSRN her article, The Power of All: Tort in the Age of Constitution, Marq. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2024). Here is the abstract: Life in a ...

Tort law is animated by a simple and powerful idea: If you harm other people by failing to take reasonable care, then fairness requires you to compensate them.

The laws of New York and California, like most states, recognize the tort. While there is no precedent applying this tort to road-blocking protesters, it fits the offense.

Thomas R. Newman and Steven J. Ahmuty Jr. In Flanders v. Goodfellow, ___ N.Y.3d ___, 2025 WL 1127772 (April 17, 2025), the New York Court of Appeals overruled a prior decision barring common-law ...

Earlier last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in SodexoMAGIC v. Drexel University made this law—that the gist of the action doctrine does not bar a viable tort claim between ...

I'd love to hear what people think about this, and the broader pressure that negligence law (and, relatedly, product design defect law) imposes on companies to forbid anonymous uses.

Here are my prior posts on climate-related tort litigation (as distinct from the Juliana climate litigation):. Why State Common Law Nuisance Claims Against Fossil Fuel Companies Are Not Preempted ...

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed two bills, SB 68 and 69, into law enacting tort reform. Here is what we know. News Sports Entertainment Lifestyle Opinion Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals.