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Womble Bond Dickinson offices in Wilmington, Delaware. REUTERS / Andrew Kelly Law firm adds two partners, one of them with an asbestos background Employees are expanding the possibilities of toxic tort with litigation that will “swell,” Womble says The company and office names listed above are automatically generated from the text of the article. We … Read more
To print this article, all you need to do is register or log in to Mondaq.com. Originally published February 23, 2021 In Caplan v. Atas, 2021 ONSC 670, the Superior Court of Justice recently recognized a new unauthorized internet harassment. The court’s decision comes shortly after the Ontario Court of Appeals refused to recognize unlawful … Read more
June 17, 2021 Click for PDF Adopted on June 17, 2021 Nestlé USA, Inc. v Doe, No. 19-416, consolidated with Cargill, Inc. v. Doe, No. 19-453 Today, the 8-1 Supreme Court ruled that plaintiffs suing domestic companies for aiding and abetting international violations of law abroad did not allege sufficient domestic context for the conduct … Read more
Months after the 2000 film “Erin Brockovich” dramatized a legal battle between the small California town of Hinkley and a corporation that poisoned its water, Thomas Girardi and the rest of the movie’s attorney-heroes geared up for a case that seemed fit for a sequel. Girardi Keese founder Thomas Girardi, pictured in 2014, made his … Read more
Federal Multi-District Litigations (MDLs) have become a mainstay since their inception in 1968. Numerous requests for centralization are made and granted. According to statistics from the Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation (JPML), 359 requests for centralization have been granted in the last decade alone. Engaging resolution advisers early on can not only help a company … Read more
The Environmental Litigation and Mass Tort practice group advises US-based and multinational corporations, trade associations, coalitions, municipalities and individual clients on environmental law issues in the US. The group offers a wide range of regulatory and compliance services with experience in all aspects of environmental, energy and resource law, including compliance advice, administrative proceedings, enforcement … Read more
On February 26, 2021, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) cleared the standard for de facto causality in several criminal charges brought by defendants. The opinion of the SJC in Doull v. Foster, 487 Mass. 1 (2021), changed the standard for factual causality from the confusing test of “essential contributing factor” to the simpler standard … Read more
On June 17, 2021, the US Supreme Court ruled Nestle USA, Inc. against Doe, reiterating that the Alien Tort Statute (“ATS”) does not allow for extraterritorial cause of action and provided further guidance as to when a cause of action will be classified as extraterritorial as well as two other important questions. In Nestle, six … Read more
“The value of freedom of expression and the need for some restrictions on that freedom have long been considered central to a vibrant and healthy democracy and, frankly, to any decent society (…) The Internet has upset that balance.” . “ And with that said, Ontario Superior Court Judge David Corbett set the stage to … Read more
The Supreme Court again restricts the scope of claims under the Alien Tort Statute Lexology