Professor Rick Peltz-Steele was featured in a video commentary, published by the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, about a case pending in the U.S. Supreme Court involving tort law, constitutional law, and statutory interpretation.
UMass Law Professor Rick Peltz-Steele was featured in a video commentary, published by the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, about a case pending in the U.S. Supreme Court involving tort law, constitutional law, and statutory interpretation.
The video illustrates the issue, heard in oral argument in the Court on January 14, in the case of Thacker v. Tennessee Valley Authority. Plaintiff Thacker was seriously injured in a fatal boating accident on the Tennessee River, and he sued the federal government in tort law.
Professor Peltz-Steele explained on his blog, The Savory Tort: “The case compels the Court to analyze what, if any, governmental immunity is afforded to a range of New Deal entities, such as the TVA, which Congress broadly authorized ‘to sue and be sued,’ decades before the Federal Tort Claims Act came into being.”
The illustrated video is part of the Federalist Society’s SCOTUS brief series. The Federalist Society, a legal advocacy organization of conservatives and libertarians, invited Professor Peltz-Steele to Washington, D.C., to record the video commentary. Professor Peltz-Steele teaches 1L tort law at UMass Law.
To read Professor Peltz-Steele's blog post, please visit: http://www.thesavorytort.com/2019/01/scotus-ponders-governmental-immunity-in.html
To watch the video, please visit: https://youtu.be/cPSM5PDTb-0