About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline

LOG IN
LOG IN


Case Citations [i] (Spring 2026)

handle is hein.ali/resctlw0168 and id is 1 raw text is: THE AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE Spring 2026 Citations CONFLICT OF LAWS 2D Generally D.Mass.2024. Cit. generally in disc. Student filed a class action for false advertising against for-profit medical school that was located in the Dutch Caribbean and headquartered in Massachusetts, alleging that school deceptively claimed that its students had a near-100% pass rate on their medical-licensing exams. After tentatively granting plaintiffs' motion for class certification, this court decertified the class, holding student failed to demonstrate that questions of law or fact common to all class members predominated over questions affecting only individual members, because a choice-of-law analysis under the Restatement Second of Conflict of Laws showed that the laws of the class members' states, rather than Massachusetts consumer protection laws, applied to their false-advertisement claims. The court noted that it was explicitly guided by the Restatement when conducting choice-of-law analyses in consumer-fraud cases. Ortiz v. Saba University School of Medicine, 348 F.R.D. 4, 14, 15. D.Mass.2024. Cit. generally in case cit. in sup. Massachusetts owners of an online trade publication that published critical coverage of California e-commerce company filed multiple tort claims against e- commerce company arising out of its campaign to silence owners through harassment, stalking, and threats, seeking punitive damages under California law. This court denied in part company's partial motion for summary judgment on the issue of whether owners' claims were governed by Massachusetts law, which did not favor the award of punitive damages, holding that, under Massachusetts' choice-of- law rules, the court had to identify whether Massachusetts or California had the most-significant relationship to the wrongful conduct on a tort-by-tort basis for each punitive-damages claim. The court noted that it primarily relied on the Restatement Second of Conflict of Laws to determine which state had the most-significant relationship to a transaction for choice-of-law purposes. Steiner v. eBay, Inc., 755 F.Supp.3d 101, 107. D.Nev.2025. Cit. in case cit. generally in disc. Ohio purchaser of tickets to a music festival in Nebraska filed a class action against operator of the festival and against ticket vendor, alleging that operator's employees caused a stampede at the festival and then failed to issue refunds to purchasers for the tickets. This court granted defendants' motion to compel arbitration, holding that, under Nevada law, plaintiff agreed to the arbitration provisions contained on the website through which plaintiff purchased the tickets from vendor. In analyzing choice-of-law issues to determine that Nevada was the state with the COPYRIGHT C2026 By THE AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America For earlier citations, see the Appendices, Supplements, or Pocket Parts, if any, that correspond to the subject matter under examination.