Mass tort litigation against sovereigns remains an intriguing issue. In the Second Circuit, Motley Rice recently won reversal of the...

Today, niche litigation creates an amazing three-dimensional chess board for moves and counter-moves. For example, Russia has now lost...

Set out below is an ad I received for an interesting looking book on state liability claims. The topic to me is interesting because...

Everything is relative in the world of injuries and torts. In the US, defendants and plaintiffs jockey back and forth, and lobby for...

It seems inevitable that sovereign liability issues will continue to grow; several posts on this topic are indexed under the heading ...

A National Law Journal article reports that the Chinese government has been hit with a default judgment in a tort case. Through February...

Here’s an invitation for readers to guest blog or comment on a question related to mass tort litigation, governments and substances that...

Now it’s west (from Chicago) to Australia, asbestos and the public company fiber cement business commonly known as James Hardie. The...

Here is an unexpected but interesting non-asbestos example of conflict of interest issues arising from efforts to resolve “mass torts”...

The point of today’s post is to focus attention on issues and topics that arise from relationships between insolvencies and...

Here is the online image of Munich Re’s recent, comprehensive report on asbestos litigation, Asbestos: Anatomy of a Mass Tort. The 112...

Monday’s post (12/26) pointed out a variety of product liability, corporate law and compensation issues in the context of one nation...

I keep falling off the “global” side of things. So, this week, I’ll make a special effort to be more global. This week I’m also going to...

Milk intentionally altered with melamine sickened around 300,000 thousand children in China The aftermath includes civil suits in China...

Here is an interesting paper from the Lehman bankruptcy. It is a motion for discovery against the UK’s Financial Services Authority and...

Here is an interesting NLJ article on the state secrets privilege from a law professor and dean with an impressive background in both...

With a hat tip to Mondaq, this article from Proskauer summarizes a recent 2d Circuit ruling holding that forum selection clauses may be...

Here is a link to an American Lawyer article detailing a defrauded investor’s suit against the SEC for failing to uncover and stop Mr....

This September 23 NYT article by Charlie Savage describes Obama administration plans to deploy rules that limit the use of the state...

Is it ethical for government lawyers to demand, or a plaintiff’s lawyer to sign, a tort claim settlement agreement that includes terms...