tort
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“So why is the state tort suit different than the state law?”
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2026
Any such deal would depend on the company’s willingness to pay another party to take on the risk of covering current and future tort claims of an uncertain value.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Crucially, he said, the tort suit wouldn’t prohibit the companies from engaging in any conduct; it only requires the companies to pay for some of the damage that conduct causes.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2026
The heads of frontier labs have said their companies could be responsible for such a mass tort, or worse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
I was far more excited about the prospect of my brother taking his wedding vows, in other words, than I was about reviewing what constituted a tort.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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That’s why limited liability shouldn’t apply to torts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Mass torts spread like weeds and may be even harder to stop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
I’d been invited to speak because I’m a national expert on mass torts, but no one really wanted me there.
From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2026
They moved beyond their bread-and-butter fare of personal injury, adding departments for mass torts — cases that involves thousands of people suing over the same thing — and housing law.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2025
Taken up by text writers on torts in the last half of that century, it had much influence in Anglo-American law.
From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Roscoe Pound
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