Earlier last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in SodexoMAGIC v. Drexel University made this law—that the gist of the action doctrine does not bar a viable tort claim between ...

A tort is a civil wrong. This may sound complicated, but basically a tort happens when a person or company, called a tortfeasor, violates someone's legal rights (other than by breaching a contract ...

A federal appellate court partially reinstated a law professor’s defamation and tort claims, following the Texas Supreme ...

Tort law is the branch of the law that deals with civil suits, with the exception of disputes involving contracts. Tort law is considered to be a form of restorative justice since it seeks to ...

USA Rare Earth, 2023 WL 6939263 (Del. Ch. Oct. 20, 2023), Vice Chancellor Sam Glasscock III considered jurisdictional challenges to contract and tort claims arising out of an alleged dilution of ...

Where two men appealed from the district court’s judgment for their roles in the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, ...

Several jurisdictions do not permit a plaintiff to recover both tort and contract damages for the same loss and therefore the plaintiff must elect to proceed under tort or contract (Acadia, Cal ...

In Trustees of Boston University v. Clough, Harbour & Associates LLP, SJC issues important opinion on application of statute of repose relating to indemnification cl ...

Tort law is animated by a simple and powerful idea: If you harm other people by failing to take reasonable care, then fairness requires you to compensate them.

In the context of a breach of contract action, one very important, often misunderstood, legal doctrine is the economic loss doctrine. In general, the purpose of this legal doctrine is to prevent a ...

Professor Mullenix is the author or co-author of twenty-five books including "Public Nuisance: The New Mass Tort Frontier" (Cambridge University Press 2024), "Mass Tort Litigation" (4th Ed. 2023 ...