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 ...

Pennsylvania Strict Liability: Duty to Nonusers Within the Zone of Danger Strict liability in tort is a principled doctrine that recognizes the obligation of product manufacturers and sellers to only ...

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 ...

Product liability is based in “tort” law, along with legal claims like intentional torts, negligence, and strict liability. Torts are wrongful acts that cause injury to another person. Product ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Although the argument in Mutual Pharmaceutical Co. v. Bartlett took the Court to common ground – essentially a replay of last ...

Like every other U.S. manufacturer, General Motors confronts a new legal threat called “strict liability” — the fast-developing doctrine that a manufac turer may be held liable for consumer injuries ...

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 ...

In a controversial decision, the American Law Institute (ALI) approved a novel “Special Rule on Vicarious Liability for Sexual Assault” that endorses a new strict liability tort claim against ...

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 ...