State law tort claims - a new weapon in employment discrimination cases? When employees file discrimination claims, they have often been pre-empted from bringing state law tort claims. A recent seventh circuit case, Naeem v McKesson Drug Co, suggests that courts may be headed in a new direction.
Plaintiffs' employment lawyers have long been limited to litigating unfair employment practices claims under various federal employment laws or their Illinois state law counterparts under the Illinois human rights act, ("IHRA"). (1) other than breach of contract or common law retaliatory discharge, aggrieved employees have generally been foreclosed from...

Air rage: choice of law for intentional torts occurring in flight over international waters.
I. AN INSTANCE OF AIR RAGE IN FLIGHT OVER INTERNATIONAL WATERS: THE HENCH CASE(1) Jennifer Olson, a fifteen-year veteran airline flight attendant for Delta Air Lines, was allegedly attacked and seriously injured when Christopher Bull Hench, a passenger, tried to break into the cockpit of an aircraft...

Siegel's torts; essay and multiple-choice questions and answers.
0735556938 Siegel's torts; essay and multiple-choice questions and answers. Siegel, Brian N. and Lazar Emanuel. Aspen Publishers, Inc. 2005 252 pages $23.95 Paperback KD1948 Noting that students are underprepared for law...

Landmark cases in tort law.
It has been said that hard cases make bad law. But the difficult cases are also most often the ones which result in restatements of basic legal principles, and expand the law into hitherto unconsidered factual situations. Contrary to making bad law, in Canada such cases occasionally reach the...

Takings, torts and turmoil: reviewing the authority requirement of the Just Compensation Clause.
Identifying a meaningful distinction between common law torts and constitutional takings is a task that has evaded courts for the last hundred years. Courts struggle to distinguish between these two remunerative remedies because both frequently arise under similar circumstances. Nonetheless, this article will show that the theoretical underpinnings of...

AIDS and the Law.
The purpose of this book is twofold. First, it explains the medical background of infections with the AIDS virus and the associated legal issues to members of medical and legal professions and to nonprofessionals as well. The second purpose is to prevent litigation by helping readers to become more...

Toward a national putative father registry database.
In the United States, every third child is born to an unwed mother. (1) These children are relinquished for adoption at a greater rate than those born to married mothers. (2) Adoption of a child born to an unwed mother creates a quandary of how best to protect the...

The "necessity" defense and the failure of tort theory: the case against strict liability for damages caused while exercising self-help in an emergency.
Prologue In this quite lengthy and, no doubt for some, awkwardly structured, article, I take up what American tort law calls the "incomplete privilege" that arises when people are forced by circumstances of "necessity" to harm or consume the property of others. I focus on the much-written...

Secrets and lies? Swiss banks and international human rights.
"There is no such thing as good money or bad money, there's just money." Lucky Luciano, gangster I. INTRODUCTION What do Hitler and Marcos have in common? Their bankers. Both leaders used numbered Swiss accounts in order to deposit ill-gotten gains....

Torts, 4th ed.
9780735573451 Torts, 4th ed. Blond, Neil C. Aspen Publishers, Inc. 2007 365 pages $28.95 Paperback Blond's law guides KF1250 Designed as a study guide for exam preparation but also...