JonathanTurley

APRIL 23, 2021

Sullivan, sued for defamation and won under Alabama law. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. Tort liability for the statements in the flyer would contravene core free speech rights. seven times.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. However, my students and I often discuss the remarkably wide range of torts that comes with All Hallow’s Eve. In another June 2023 decision in Munoz v.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2021

Sullivan, sued for defamation and won under Alabama law. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. That can lead to drawn out litigation over confidentiality and demands for ex parte and in camera reviews by the court. .

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The case involved a March 23, 1963 edition of The Saturday Evening Post alleging that former University of Georgia football coach Wallace Butts conspired with University of Alabama coach Paul “Bear” Bryant to fix a 1962 football game in Alabama’s favor. million (later reduced to $460,000) to Butts in damages.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Sullivan, sued for defamation and won under Alabama law. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. The New York Times had run an advertisement referring to abuses of civil rights marchers and the arrest of Martin Luther King Jr.

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Laws Tort Law School Court 44

JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2021

The second “Count Five” is actually just a demand for punitive damages, rather than an actual separate tort. In 2011, the court ruled 8-1 in favor of Westboro Baptist Church, an infamous group of zealots who engaged in homophobic protests at the funerals of slain American troops. Mike Lee instead of Alabama Sen.

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