Torts and Personal Injury Resource Guide
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Major Treatises and Practice Guides Searching Scholar and OhioLINK Journal Articles and Current Awareness Services Aggregate Files and Other Web Resources Introduction:This selective guide highlights major print and electronic resources available to Cleveland-Marshall College of Law students researching issues in Torts and Personal Injury Law. Tort law concerns injuries to and interference with persons or property, including intentional wrongs such as assault, battery and false imprisonment, and unintentional wrongs, especially the law of negligence and products liability. Causation, duty, contributory negligence, assumption of risk and immunities are important tort law concepts. Please contact the Law Library's Research Services librarians during their Research Services hours, or via email to research.services@law.csuohio.edu for help in locating these or other resources to meet your needs.
Legislation and Case LawFederal Tort Claims Act 28 U.S.C., Chapter 171 (via Legal Information Institute) Establishes conditions for which the United States may be held liable for injuries caused by its employees in the scope of their employment
Ohio Court of Claims Act Ohio Revised Code Ch 2743 et. seq. Establishes conditions for which the state of Ohio can be held liable for injuries caused by its officers and employees. See also Civil Actions, Ohio Revised Code Chapter 2307 et. seq., Political Subdivision Tort Immunity, Ohio Revised Code Chapter 2744 et. seq.; Employment Intentional Tort, Ohio Revised Code Chapter 2745; Slander; Libel, Ohio Revised Code Chapter 2739 et. seq. Damages in Tort Actions, Ohio Revised Code 2315.18-21
For analysis of recent Ohio tort reform legislation, see: 2005 Ohio Tort Reform Legislation: An Analysis of Senate Bill 80, Effective April 7, 2005 / James T. O'Reilly. LexisNexis, 2005 KFO195.A9631 2005 Senate Bill 80: Tort Reform / Ohio State Bar Association CLE Institute, 2005 KFO195.A75 S4 2005 Tort Law: Tort Reform Legislation Companion / Christopher M. Ernst, Thomson/West, 2005- (Volume Two) KFO195 .E78 2005
LexisNexis - Ohio Tort Cases Ohio product liability, medical malpractice and personal injury case law decided by the Ohio Supreme Court, Ohio Court of Appeals and various Ohio Miscellaneous Courts. See also Federal and States Cases --Selected Tort Material (Includes U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal District Courts and State tort Case law for all 50 States plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands and other U.S. territories as well as specialty courts such as Military Appeals, Customs, Patents, Tax, Trade, Commerce, Veteran Appeals and Bankruptcy).
Westlaw - OHTRT-CS Cases from Ohio state courts that relate to civil actions for injuries intentionally or negligently caused to persons or property. Coverage begins with 1821. See also Multi State Database - MTRT-CS Cases from the state courts of all 50 states and the District of Columbia that relate to civil actions for injuries intentionally or negligently caused to persons or property. See also Federal Tort Claims Cases - FEDTORT-CS
American Tort Reform Association's ATRA Tort Reform Record - published twice a year, includes state-by-state summary of ATRA supported reforms enacted since 1986.
Major Treatises and Practice Guides
The Law of Torts / by Dan B. Dobbs. West Group, 2000 KF1250 .D6 2000
Prosser and Keeton on the Law of Torts, 5th ed. / W. Page Keeton, general editor. West Pub. Co., 1984 KF1250 .P73 1984 No longer updated, "Prosser on Torts" was long acknowledged as the standard secondary authority on tort law.
Restatement of the Law, Second, Torts 2d. American Law Institute Publishers, 1965- KF1249.A4 A43 LexisNexis (Legal—Secondary Legal—Restatements—Torts-- Rules; Case citations ) Westlaw (Rest-Torts )
Restatement of the Law, Torts : Apportionment of Liability, as adopted and promulgated by the American Law Institute. American Law Institute, 2000- KF1249.A4 R47 LexisNexis (Legal—Secondary Legal—Restatements—Torts---- Rules ; Case citations ) Westlaw ( Rest-Torts )
Restatement of the Law, Torts : Products Liability : as adopted and promulgated by the American Law Institute . American Law Institute Publishers, 1998 - KF1296 .R477 LexisNexis (Legal—Secondary Legal—Restatements—Torts— Rules ; Case citations ) Westlaw (Rest-Torts)
A Concise Restatement of Torts / compiled by Kenneth S. Abraham and Albert Clark Tate, Jr American Law Institute Publishers, 2000 KF1249.A4 A24 2000
Damages in Tort Actions / Marilyn Minzer, editorial director ... [et al.] ; M. Bender, 1982- KF1250 .D35 LexisNexis (Legal-Area of Law-By Topic-Torts- Treatises and Analytical Materials - Matthew Bender)
Federal Tort Claims / Daniel A. Morris. West Group, 1993- KF1321 .M67 1993 Westlaw-FEDTORT
Harper, James and Gray on Torts, 3d ed. / Fowler V. Harper, Fleming James, Jr., Oscar S. Gray Aspen, 2006 KF1250 .H322
Stein on Personal Injury Damages 3rd ed. West Group, c1997- KF1257 .S7 1997 Westlaw-STEIN
Tort Law / Christopher M. Ernst Thomson/West, 2005- (Baldwin's Ohio Practice Series) KFO195 .E78 2005 Currently, the only comprehensive Ohio specific tort law treatise. Volume Two contains complete text and analysis of recent tort reform legislation. Westlaw - OHIOPRAC-TORT
Exploring Tort Law / edited by M. Stuart Madden. Cambridge University Press, 2005 KF1250.A2 .E97 2005
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