Lauren Klosinski | June 17, 2019 | Torts: Economic Harm
The California Supreme Court cited the Restatement of the Law Third, Torts: Liability for Economic Harm in its recent decision involving the issue of whether a gas company had a tort duty to guard against purely economic losses.The case, Southern California Gas...
Kenneth W. Simons, Jonathan Cardi and Jennifer Morinigo | May 16, 2019 | Torts: Intentional Torts to Persons
Restatement of the Law, Torts: Intentional Torts to PersonsThe following entry contains the Black Letter and Comments b, c, and d of Tentative Draft No. 4, Section 12. Categories of Consent That Preclude Liability.The full draft contains Reporters’ Notes. This draft...
Erin E. Murphy and Kenneth W. Simons | March 26, 2019 | Sexual Assault, Torts: Intentional Torts to Persons
In this episode of Reasonably Speaking, NYU Law’s Erin Murphy and UC Irvine Law’s Ken Simons explore the difference between criminal law and tort law in the United States and then focus on how “consent” is, and should be, defined in sexual assault allegations.From...
