All Articles tagged Tort Law

• Florida Law Review Forum
  January 01, 2018 EDT
  “Go Sue Yourself!” Imagining Intrapersonal Liability for Negligently Self-Inflicted Harms
  Lars Noah

  Are “self-inflicted” harms actionable? Courts increasingly have allowed victims to identify other (typically unrelated) parties that may share responsibility for such injuries. Moreover, insofar as judges now also permit lawsuits...

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• Florida Law Review Forum
  January 01, 2016 EDT
  A Second Amendment Roght to Be Negligent?
  Stephen G. GillesNelson. Lund

  Professor Andrew Jay McClurg maintains that the Second Amendment has created a right to store firearms negligently. It is conceivable that some such thing could happen, just as the Supreme...

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• Florida Law Review Forum
  January 01, 2016 EDT
  Intent in Patent Infringement
  Patrick R. Goold

  In An Intentional Tort Theory of Patents, Professor Vishnubhakat makes two arguments. First, that liability for patent infringement should only be imposed upon defendants who intentionally make, use, or sell,...

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• Florida Law Review Forum
  January 01, 2016 EDT
  Gun Control Through Tort Law
  Richard C. Ausness

  I have been asked to respond to an article by Professor Andrew Jay McClurg that recently appeared in the Florida Law Review. In this article, the author, a longtime advocate...

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• Florida Law Review Forum
  January 01, 2016 EDT
  Is There a “Second Amendment Right to Be Negligent”?
  Brannon P. Denning

  Professor McClurg’s thesis is that courts and Congress have either ignored, misapplied, or overridden general tort principles of duty and proximate cause to insulate from civil liability those who negligently...

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