Sentences with phrase «tort suits against»

The recent passage of Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA) reform will incentivize the plaintiffs bar to bring more toxic tort suits against chemical manufacturers.

On the other hand, Goldsmith's logic might permit alien tort suits against U.S. corporations — which ironically includes five of the six signatories of his brief.

Second, it could bar traditional alien tort suits against individual torturers and genocidaires.

Although this plaintiff failed at the motion to dismiss stage, we should remember that tort suits against the government are always tricky, given the limits imposed by sovereign immunity.

If your injury was caused by the negligent or reckless conduct of the driver of the tractor trailer, whether in driving or in loading and securing the cargo, you can file a regular tort suit against that individual, and his or her employer.

Not exact matches

If you truly do not recognize the Const!tution as being the Supreme Law that governs your physical life here in this country, then you have some options, like giving up your Citizenship and moving to a different country, or staying here and refusing to follow the law — in which case we can bring a tort action or other civil suit against you, file criminal charges against you, or have you committed to a psychiatric hospital.

In that case, the Supreme Court will be considering the controversial decision of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled that the Alien Tort Statute (which allows lawsuits in U.S. courts for violations of international law) does not create a legal basis for such suits against corporations.

Lipanovich, A., 2005: Smoke before oil: Modeling a suit against the auto and oil industry on the tobacco tort litigation is feasible.

Our team has worked with US federal, state and local government agencies to defend against governmental enforcement actions and citizen suits, response cost litigation, indemnification claims, toxic tort class actions, imminent and substantial endangerment litigation, and criminal environmental claims.

L. 1 (2002)(examining the procedural advantages to Alien Tort Statute suits against corporations within domestic courts); see Student Author, Civil Procedure — Pleading Requirements — Eleventh Circuit Dismisses Alien Tort Statute Claims against Coca - Cola under Iqbal's Plausibility Pleading Standard, 123 Harv.

Through tort law, the injured pedestrian may be able to win compensation by launching a law suit against the person who hit him.

Hundreds of current and former residents of Montgomery and Bucks counties in Pennsylvania have filed personal injury suits which have been added to a mass tort against six firefighting foam manufacturers.

In a private security contractor's defamation suit against the U.S. involving an allegedly defamatory email, the Norfolk U.S. District Court dismisses the suit because the plaintiff contractor failed to exhaust administrative remedies as required by the Federal Tort Claims Act.

The FTCA does not bar suits for breach of contract, does not bar suits for injunctive or declaratory relief, and does not bar suits against government employees for money damages for intentionally violating someone's civil rights (even though some union contract indemnify and defend government employees for civil rights violations, in practice, converting tort liability of an individual into contractual liability of the United States government).

Not infrequently, an employee or agent who actually committed a tort (e.g. causing a car crash) can be sued in addition to a suit against the United States government under the FTCA.

The reason that they nonetheless face a collective action problem in the context of small, traditional tort suits featuring individual fact patterns (slip - and - fall cases are good examples) is that they are being sued by many different trial lawyers (each of whom may only have one case pending against a particular defendant at one time) who are themselves each suing many different corporate defendants.

Last month, in «We Won't See You in Court: The Era of Tort Lawsuits Is Waning,» the Wall Street Journal took a look at the decline in tort lawsuit filings and the reasons fueling the decline, citing «state restrictions on litigation, the increasing cost of bringing suits, improved auto safety, and a long campaign by businesses to turn public opinion against plaintiffs and their lawyers.&raTort Lawsuits Is Waning,» the Wall Street Journal took a look at the decline in tort lawsuit filings and the reasons fueling the decline, citing «state restrictions on litigation, the increasing cost of bringing suits, improved auto safety, and a long campaign by businesses to turn public opinion against plaintiffs and their lawyers.&ratort lawsuit filings and the reasons fueling the decline, citing «state restrictions on litigation, the increasing cost of bringing suits, improved auto safety, and a long campaign by businesses to turn public opinion against plaintiffs and their lawyers.»

For example, the United States Department of Justice is required by law to defend tort suits brought against certain covered entities; in such circumstances, however, the United States, and not the individual covered entity, is the client and is potentially liable.

A suit whose claim in tort is prest Upon a mangled tree's behest; A tree whose battered trunk was prest Against a Chevy's crumpled crest; A tree that faces each new day With bark and limb in disarray; A tree that may forever bear A lasting need for tender care.

Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon weighed in on Louisiana's comparatively high auto insurance rates on Monday (Feb. 17), noting a recent landmark suit filed by the East Bank levee board against oil and gas companies will help further a wider push to revisit tort reform during this year's legislative session.