climate torts

Mrs. Palsgraf, Meet Enviromental Law

A case involving a freakish accident with fireworks casts a big shadow in environmental law.

Today in my first-year Torts class, I teach the Palsgraf case, one of those cases that every lawyer knows by heart.  More about Palsgraf in a moment. It’s a tort case, so it won’t surprise you that oil companies use similar arguments against having to pay damages for climate change.  But it may be more …

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