>Podcast Episode 131: Listen and Learn – Strict Products Liability (https://barexamtoolbox.com/podcast-episode-131-listen-and-learn-strict-products-liability ...

Back in the dark ages of tort law a person injured by a defective product had no recourse absent privity of contract with the seller. That changed in the 1960s with the development of strict liability ...

A.2d 1246 (Md. 1989)) prove an additional element—the element of duty—beyond the four “essential elements of an action in ...

Although the argument in Mutual Pharmaceutical Co. v. Bartlett took the Court to common ground – essentially a replay of last year’s decision in PLIVA, Inc. v. Mensing — the Justices seemed far from ...

Time will tell whether Pennsylvania's jurisprudence stays the course or joins the pack allowing the defense of strict products liability cases to converge with negligence actions, and morph the ...

“Out of fact comes law,” said the Romans. And out of 50,000 U.S. auto deaths a year are coming new legal pressures on U.S. auto manufacturers. Most important is “strict liability” — a doctrine holding ...

Because it is impossible to design a prescription drug that provides the desired health benefits with zero risk of harm, courts have long held that manufacturers of prescription drugs are not strictly ...

As a small-business owner, you can protect yourself and your business from costly litigation by recognizing situations that expose you to tort liability. A tort is a civil wrong causing injury to ...

First year. First day. First hour. Torts. Second hour was contracts. Third was real property. Then constitutional law, legal writing and civil procedure. Maybe not in that particular order, though; it ...

Paul was a Senior Legal Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation. Not everyone agrees with the validity of the Supreme Court’s approach to statutory interpretation, but if the question is whether ...