From Illinois Appellate Court Judge David Ellis's concurring opinion two weeks ago in People v. Lee: I believe that the State is required to prove that the defendant [who is charged with possessing a ...

Paul was a Senior Legal Research Fellow in the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Not everyone agrees with the validity of the Supreme Court’s approach to ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

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 ...

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 ...

From the majority opinion in State v. Blake, by Justice Sheryl Gordon McCloud: Washington's strict liability drug possession statute, makes possession of a controlled substance a felony punishable by ...

The authors discuss a decision from a Manhattan trial court—released on June 27—which denied Tik Tok and Instagram’s motion to dismiss a products liability claim brought on behalf of the estate of a ...

Maryland’s highest court has stepped back from a ruling creating a strict liability standard for attacks by any dog that is part pit bull, deciding it only applies to purebreds. In an opinion filed ...