News & Analysis as of

Supreme Court of the United States › Wrongful Death

The United States Supreme Court is the highest court of the United States and is charged with interpreting federal law, including the United States Constitution. The Court's docket is largely discretionary... more +
The United States Supreme Court is the highest court of the United States and is charged with interpreting federal law, including the United States Constitution. The Court's docket is largely discretionary with only a limited number of cases granted review each term.  The Court is comprised of one chief justice and eight associate justices, who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate to hold lifetime positions. less -
Goldberg Segalla

Asbestos Damages in the Maritime Sphere

Goldberg Segalla on

The shipping industry is an extensive and foundational mode of global transportation and resource distribution. The men and women who work aboard the U.S. fleet are routinely exposed to varying types of cargo, machinery, and...more

Harris Beach PLLC

National Mass Torts: 2023 Year in Review

Harris Beach PLLC on

Sixth Circuit Rejects Overly Ambitious PFAS Class Action - Hardwick v. 3M Co. (In re E.I. du Pont de Nemours), No. 22-3765, 87 F.4th 315 (6th Cir. Nov. 27, 2023) - The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Post-Roe Texas: Unanticipated Effects of the Human Life Protection Act of 2021

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on

Last summer the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that established the constitutional right to abortion. On August 25, 2022, Texas’ Human Life Protection Act of 2021 (“HLPA” or the “Act”), colloquially...more

Morgan Lewis - Up & Atom

Supreme Court Rings Eight Bells and Ends Navy Sailor Fukushima Suit

Morgan Lewis - Up & Atom on

The US Supreme Court rang eight bells on March 29, rejecting the petition by US Navy sailors to review last year’s Ninth Circuit decision upholding dismissal of their lawsuit in Cooper v. Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Unprecedented: Litigation Insights - Issue 27, October 2020

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on

This 27th edition of Unprecedented, our weekly update on COVID-19-related litigation, sees us start with a discussion of a trend toward class actions, with later discussions on two key areas -- insurance coverage disputes and...more

Foley Hoag LLP

Supreme Court Issues Important Decision on Retroactive Effect of Amendment to Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act

Foley Hoag LLP on

A recent Supreme Court decision sets important precedent on the retroactive effect of legislation amending the law governing sovereign immunity in the United States. On May 18, 2020, the Supreme Court handed a victory to...more

Jones Day

U.S. Supreme Court Allows Retroactive Punitive Damages Against the Republic of the Sudan - The Supreme Court allows victims of...

Jones Day on

The Supreme Court in Opati v. Republic of Sudan, No. 17–1268, 590 U.S. ___ (2020), has held that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act ("FSIA") allows certain plaintiffs to recover punitive damages from state sponsors of...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Supreme Court Decides Opati v. Republic of Sudan

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on

On May 18, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Opati v. Republic of Sudan, holding that plaintiffs who sue a foreign government under the state-sponsored-terrorism exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act can seek...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

The Supreme Court - May 18, 2020

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on

Opati v. Republic of Sudan, No. 17-1268: Victims of a 1998 al Qaeda attack outside the United States Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania brought suit in federal court against the Republic of Sudan, alleging that Sudan had...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Unprecedented: COVID-19 Litigation Trends - Issue 6

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on

This sixth edition of Unprecedented, our weekly update on COVID-19 litigation, sees us reporting on many of the same types of cases. Consumers continue to seek refunds for goods and services that have been disrupted by the...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Supreme Court Decides Hernandez et al. v. Mesa

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on

On February 25, 2020, the Supreme Court decided Hernandez et al. v. Mesa, No. 17-1678, declining to extend a judicially created damages remedy for a constitutional violation by a federal employee, a U.S. Border Patrol agent...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Product Lines - Toxic Torts and Products Liability Insights: Issue 3, 2019

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on

Welcome to the third 2019 issue of Product Lines – our quarterly e-newsletter that focuses on toxic torts and products liability issues.... In This Edition: - Vitamin E Found in Cannabis-Containing Vape Products Linked...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

The Ex Post Facto Effect: The U.S. Supreme Court’s DeVries Decision And Asbestos Litigation In The United States

Fox Rothschild LLP on

Colleagues and clients frequently pose the question whether after more than forty years the asbestos litigation juggernaut has finally neared its inevitable conclusion. The United States Supreme Court’s recent decision in...more

Blank Rome LLP

The Supreme Court Adopts a Middle of the Road Approach When Deciding a Manufacturer’s Duty to Warn in the Context of Maritime Tort...

Blank Rome LLP on

On March 19, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court in Air & Liquid Systems Corp. v. Devries held that, under maritime law, a product manufacturer has a duty to warn of asbestos or other hazardous parts when its own product, although...more

Beveridge & Diamond PC

Too Much to “Bare”: US Supreme Court Rejects Bare Metal Defense Under Federal Maritime Law

Beveridge & Diamond PC on

In an eagerly anticipated decision by the asbestos bar, the United States Supreme Court in Air & Liquid Systems et al. v. DeVries et at., Dkt. No. 17-1104, 2019 WL 1245520 (March 19, 2019) rejected the “bare metal defense” as...more

Polsinelli

U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Asbestos Defendants “Bare Metal Defense” in Maritime Cases

Polsinelli on

In Air & Liquid Sys. Corp. et al. v. DeVries et al., No. 17-1104 (March 19, 2019), the U.S. Supreme Court held that under federal maritime law, a product manufacturer has a duty to warn when its product requires the...more

Pillsbury - Gravel2Gavel Construction & Real...

SCOTUS Limits “Bare Metal Defense”

Pillsbury - Gravel2Gavel Construction & Real... on

On March 19, the U.S. Supreme Court decided the case of Air & Liquid Systems Corp. v. Devries, affirming the ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in this maritime tort case involving the availability of...more

Cozen O'Connor

SCOTUS Rejects Bare Metal Defense in Maritime Products Liability Actions Involving Asbestos Exposure

Cozen O'Connor on

On March 19, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court decided the first case involving maritime law in several years. In Air & Liquid Systems Corp. et al v. Devries, et al, 586 US ___ (2019), Justice Kavanaugh, writing for the majority...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

U.S. Supreme Court Narrows “Bare Metal Defense” For Maritime Asbestos Cases

Husch Blackwell LLP on

In its decision Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court held, under maritime law, that manufacturers can be held liable for injuries caused by asbestos-containing parts manufactured and added to their products by third parties. The...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Supreme Court Decides Air & Liquid Systems Corp. v. DeVries

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on

On March 19, 2019, the Supreme Court decided Air & Liquid Systems Corp. v. DeVries, No. 17-1104, holding that in the maritime tort context, a product manufacturer has a duty to warn when: 1) its product requires incorporation...more

Carlton Fields

Supreme Court Holds Federal Arbitration Act Preemption Applies To Contract Formation Rules

Carlton Fields on

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Kentucky Supreme Court’s use of a clear-statement rule to require that powers of attorney specifically authorize a representative to enter into an arbitration agreement, finding...more

Littler

Supreme Court Emphatically Defends Arbitration Agreements from State Interference

Littler on

On May 15, 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court reiterated the principle that the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) requires states to treat arbitration agreements just as they treat other types of contracts. In Kindred Nursing Centers...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

No Pre-Emption Exemption - The U.S. Supreme Court and the Kentucky Supreme Court are not kindred spirits with respect to state law...

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on

The U.S. Supreme Court and the Kentucky Supreme Court are not kindred spirits with respect to state law restrictions on arbitration agreements....more

Baker Donelson

Beware! Long Term Care Class Actions are Coming

Baker Donelson on

Long term care providers beware, class action suits are coming. Due to allegations of chronic understaffing, long term care providers are beginning to face massive class action lawsuits nationwide. The trend began in 2010,...more

Proskauer - Government Contractor Compliance...

Trade Group Seeks Greater Legal Protections For Contractors Operating In War Zones

Proskauer - Government Contractor Compliance... on

Earlier last week, the Professional Services Council filed an amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court in support of a writ of certiorari of a Third Circuit decision regarding contractor immunity in war zones. The case...more

25 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
Sign up Log in
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide