Tort Law in the news
Maryland Law Review
Interference with the Democratic Process as Public Nuisance
The tort of public nuisance provides a vehicle for holding accountable those engaged in antidemocratic conduct.
Americans For Financial Reform
Can Ordering a Pizza Invalidate Your Fundamental Rights?
A New Jersey court ruled that a couple who had been seriously injured in an accident riding in an Uber forfeited their right to sue Uber because their 12-year-old had clicked on a pop-up box in order to track her Uber Eats pizza order a year earlier.
Reuters
Texas sues TikTok for violating children’s privacy
Texas sued TikTok on Thursday, accusing the social media platform of violating children's privacy and state law by sharing children's personal identifying information without consent from their parents or legal guardians.
Barn Raiser
Water Protectors Use Novel Legal Tactic to Challenge the Dakota Access Pipeline
Novel anti-SLAPP laws could help uncover Dakota Access Pipeline secrets
Reuters
Could 23andMe $30 million data breach settlement get derailed by mass arbitration?
A law firm representing about 5,000 23andMe customers who demanded arbitration after hackers obtained sensitive data from the genetic testing company ...
The Hill
Kentucky sues Express Scripts, alleging it helped fuel state’s opioid crisis
Kentucky’s attorney general is suing the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) Express Scripts over its role in “worsening” the state’s opioid crisis.