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Federal preemption

Monsanto Company v. John L. Durnell

The Court held that FIFRA expressly preempts Durnell’s failure-to-warn claim because it would require a cancer warning on Roundup’s EPA-approved label.

  • Fifra express preemption
  • Failure-to-warn
  • Pesticide labeling
  • Epa registration and label approval
  • Misbranding
  • Fifra-express-preemption
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Insurance law 353 Conn. 845

Orlando v. Liburd

The Connecticut Supreme Court held that an insured’s unjust enrichment claim based on premature subrogation was ripe before judgment against the tortfeasor.

  • Make whole doctrine
  • Subrogation
  • Unjust enrichment
  • Ripeness
  • Standing
  • Declaratory relief
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Torts Long v. Fowler

Long v. Fowler

North Carolina’s Supreme Court affirmed summary judgment for defendants in a wrongful death case, holding the fatal chiller accident was not reasonably foreseeable.

  • Foreseeability
  • Proximate cause
  • Summary judgment
  • Contributory negligence
  • Warnings and manuals
  • Sovereign immunity (procedural history)
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Statutory interpretation ANNE WEISS v. PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (And Eleven Consolidated Cases)

ANNE WEISS v. PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (And Eleven Consolidated Cases)

The Supreme Judicial Court held that the UAGA’s good-faith immunity can extend through disposition of donated remains and reinstated claims against Harvard and one manager, but not against another manager.

  • Uniform anatomical gift act (uaga)
  • Good faith defense
  • Peculiarly pervasive noncompliance
  • Respondeat superior
  • Motion to dismiss standard
  • Uniform-anatomical-gift-act
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Torts Gutierrez v. Tostado

Gutierrez v. Tostado

The California Supreme Court held that MICRA’s one-year limitations period did not apply to a driver’s negligence claim arising from an ambulance rear-ending his vehicle.

  • Micra (§340.5)
  • Professional negligence vs general negligence
  • Statutory interpretation
  • Scope of duties of health care providers
  • Discovery rule
  • Micra
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Aviation law

Arzu v. American Airlines, Inc.

The court denied Arzu’s summary-judgment motion and granted American Airlines’ motion, holding the inflight response was not a Montreal Convention accident and no contract breach occurred.

  • Montreal convention
  • Loss of consortium
  • Breach of contract
  • Summary judgment
  • Preemption
  • Medical emergency aboard aircraft
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Rico 604 U.S. 593

Medical Marijuana, Inc. v. Horn

The Supreme Court held that civil RICO does not categorically bar business or property losses that derive from a personal injury.

  • Antecedent-personal-injury bar
  • Business or property injury
  • Definition of "injured"
  • Proximate cause/direct-relationship
  • Treble damages
  • Rico
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Rico 604 U.S. 593; 145 S. Ct. 931

Medical Marijuana, Inc. v. Horn

The Supreme Court held that RICO does not categorically bar recovery for business or property losses merely because they resulted from a personal injury.

  • Personal-injury exclusion
  • Business-or-property injury
  • Antecedent-personal-injury bar
  • Proximate-causation/direct-relationship requirement
  • Pattern-of-racketeering
  • Rico
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Contracts 351 Conn. 186

McCarter & English, LLP v. Jarrow Formulas, Inc.

Connecticut held that a law firm may not recover common-law punitive damages for a client’s breach of contract unless the firm also proves an independent tort.

  • Availability of punitive damages for breach of contract
  • Independent tort requirement for punitive damages
  • Attorney fees as form of punitive damages
  • Certified question procedure
  • Punitive-damages
  • Breach-of-contract
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Torts 2024 Ohio 5744; 179 Ohio St. 3d 74

In re Natl. Prescription Opiate Litigation

The Ohio Supreme Court held that the Ohio Product Liability Act abrogates common-law public nuisance claims based on a product’s sale or distribution, including claims for equitable abatement.

  • Ohio product liability act (opla)
  • Abrogation of common-law claims
  • Equitable relief
  • Statutory construction
  • Legislative history
  • Ohio-product-liability-act
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