Alienation of affection tort doesn’t violate lover’s right to free expression, appeals court rules
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The conventional wisdom that state courts are awash in tort lawsuits is wrong. Tort lawsuits are “down sharply,” raising concerns among some judges that Americans no longer see the courts as a way to achieve justice in garden-variety civil cases, the Wall Street Journal (sub. req.) reports. ABA Journal Daily News
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The Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act of 2017, which suggests many changes aimed at reducing class-action lawsuits, was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives Thursday. One of its major provisions would require federal courts to deny class-action certification unless every one of the proposed class members was affirmatively demonstrated to have “suffered the […]
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Women who claim that Uber drivers sexually assaulted them can go forward with their tort claim against the company, a San Francisco federal judge ruled… ABA Journal Daily News