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Fletcher v. Rylands: Early leading case on strict liability doctrine. (Exchequer Chamber, 1866) L.R. 1. Ex. 265. Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California, 551 P.2d 334 (Cal. 1976): A case in which a patient told his psychiatrist that he had thoughts of killing a girl. Later he did kill the girl.
United States constitutional torts case law (2 C, 7 P) D. United States defamation case law (51 P) N. United States negligence case law (18 P) Q.
This case featured the first example of judicial review by the Supreme Court. Ware v. Hylton, 3 U.S. 199 (1796) A section of the Treaty of Paris supersedes an otherwise valid Virginia statute under the Supremacy Clause. This case featured the first example of judicial nullification of a state law. Fletcher v.
Vosburg v. Putney, 80 Wis. 523, 50 N.W. 403 (Wisc. 1891), was an American torts case that helped establish the scope of liability in a battery.The case involved an incident that occurred on February 20, 1889 in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co., 248 N.Y. 339, 162 N.E. 99 (1928), is a leading case in American tort law on the question of liability to an unforeseeable plaintiff.The case was heard by the New York Court of Appeals, the highest state court in New York; its opinion was written by Chief Judge Benjamin Cardozo, a leading figure in the development of American common law and later a United ...
bad-faith exception to the right to convert Chapter 7 bankruptcy case to a Chapter 13 case Sinochem International Co., Ltd. v. Malaysia International Shipping Corporation: 549 U.S. 422 (2007) District Court may respond immediately to defendant's forum non conveniens motion before resolving jurisdictional or other threshold concerns Massachusetts v.
(The Center Square) – Cook County is at No. 6 on the Americans for Tort Reform Judicial Hellholes list. ATR has been publishing the annual Judicial Hellholes list for more than 20 years.
On this page, environmental lawsuit means "a lawsuit where the well-being of an environmental asset or the well-being of a set of environmental assets is in dispute". Also on this page, lawsuit with environmental relevance means "a lawsuit where a non-environmental entity or a set of non-environmental entities is in dispute, but whose outcome has relevance for an environmental asset or for a ...