In a case concerning hearing loss among employees, the Supreme Court has come down in favour of a common law approach to safety, rather than stricter statutory law It is often assumed that statutory ...

Earlier this month, the Law Court weighed in on a hot-button legal issue—the potential liability of opioid manufacturers for the costs of the drug epidemic. In Eastern Maine Medical Center v. Walgreen ...

Language and the limits of the common law suffered this week as an Oklahoma judge declared Johnson & Johnson liable for supposedly creating what the judge called a “public nuisance” resulting in the ...

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