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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. A leading case in defining the standard of the duty of care, and the duty to warn. Trimarco v. Klein, Ct. of App. of N.Y., 56 N.Y.2d 98, 436 N.E.2d 502 ...
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 ...
cigarette company advertising class action led by plaintiff's attorney Stephen Tillery resulted in $10.1 billion judgement [1] Madison County, Illinois: 2003/2006 Ritalin class action lawsuits: promoting disorder ADHD to increase drug profits: Robbins v. Lower Merion School District
In this article we are going to list the 15 biggest bribery cases in business history. Click to skip ahead and jump to the 5 biggest bribery cases in business history. Bribery is part of human ...
A mass-tort case usually starts small, with a few people hurt by a drug or a medical device. Law firms typically accuse companies of failing to warn people about a product's risks.
Cuneiform tablet case for record of a lawsuit ca. 20th–19th century B.C. Lists of lawsuits cover various types of lawsuits . They are organized by topics and fields, and by individual companies or people.
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 ...
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.