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TortsProf Blog
Klein on Libel Tourism
Andy Klein (Indiana-Indianapolis) has posted to SSRN Some Thoughts on Libel Tourism. The abstract provides:This paper addresses the topic of “libel tourism,” a phrase used to describe cases where plaintiffs…
California Employment Law Update
Employer Could Proceed With Defamation And Interference Claims Against Employees Who Protested Their Termination
By Tony Oncidi
Overhill Farms, Inc. v. Lopez, 190 Cal. App. 4th 1248 (2010) After the IRS notified Overhill Farms that 231 of its then-current employees had provided invalid social security numbers, Overhill…
TortsProf Blog
Two Law Profs Win $5 Million Punitive Damages From West
As Brian Leiter reports, two law professors (from Penn and Widener) have won $5 million in punitive damages in a defamation suit against West Publishing. Although their contract allowed West to…
Litigation & Trial
Jury Awards Law Professors $5 Million Against West Publishing For Defamatory Pocket Part
[UPDATE: Law Librarian Blog and 3 Geeks and a Law Blog both have detailed coverage of the case and what it means for the publishing industry, and Jonathan Turley has background…
New York Commercial Division Round-Up Blog
Court Refuses to Dismiss Tort and Defamation Claims Against Authors and Publisher of Book About Cryonics Organization
By Lisa Lewis On October 29, 2010, Justice James A. Yates refused to dismiss tort and defamation claims, among other claims, against the authors and the publisher of a book about…
The Faculty Lounge
Law Profs Win Huge Punitives Verdict Against West Publishing
Late last week, David Rudovsky, a Senior Fellow on the Penn Law faculty, and Len Sosnov, Professor of Law at Widener, won a $5 million dollar punitive damages verdict in…
3 Geeks and a Law Blog
West Publishing Ordered to Pay Rudovsky & Sosnov $5M in Punitive Damages
By Greg Lambert
Interesting news out of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania where a jury awarded David Rudovsky and Leonard Sosnov $90K each against West Publishing for defamation and for placing the Defendants…
TortsProf Blog
Top 10 Recent SSRN Torts & Products Liability Downloads
RankDownloads Paper Title 1 292 Harry Potter and the Trouble with Tort Theory Scott Hershovitz, University of Michigan Law School, Date posted to database: October 7, 2010 Last Revised: November 14, 2010…
Aaron Morris' Business Law Alert
A Primer on SLAPP Suits and Anti-SLAPP Motions
By Aaron Morris
I routinely receive calls from parties and attorneys who have run afoul of California’s anti-SLAPP statute. Since most of the calls arise from defamation actions, I previously did not think…
The Faculty Lounge
Hyperlinking and Defamation in Canada
(Cross-posted from Madisonian.net) With thanks to one of my Canadian students for forwarding this to me, it appears that the the Supreme Court of Canada will soon be deciding a…