Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Although the argument in Mutual Pharmaceutical Co. v. Bartlett took the Court to common ground – essentially a replay of last ...

“He needs to own his impact,” said a University of Maryland undergraduate about a professor who offended students by using the n-word. Spoken during a lecture about racial slurs, presumably with the ...

Back in the dark ages of tort law a person injured by a defective product had no recourse absent privity of contract with the seller. That changed in the 1960s with the development of strict liability ...

On April 28, 2026, the Indiana Court of Appeals addressed a significant insurance coverage dispute arising from environmental ...

Surely you noticed the centrality of the notion of a product being “unreasonably dangerous,” right? And surely, Pennsylvania jury instructions must explain what that notion means, right? Wrong.

Mazzocchio arises from two sisters’ allegations that they developed cancer from exposure to radioactive contamination linked to a former nuclear waste storage site in Missouri. The sisters sued ...

As a small-business owner, you can protect yourself and your business from costly litigation by recognizing situations that expose you to tort liability. A tort is a civil wrong causing injury to ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

First year. First day. First hour. Torts. Second hour was contracts. Third was real property. Then constitutional law, legal writing and civil procedure. Maybe not in that particular order, though; it ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...