SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 15, 2023

In the same year, a divided Supreme Court ruled in National Institute for Family and Life Advocates v. Washington passed Senate Bill 5722 in 2018 to add conversion therapy for minors to the list of violations for which therapists can lose their licenses. Nineteen other states and the District of Columbia have similar laws.

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Day on Torts

AUGUST 9, 2021

The Court pointed out that even crediting defendant’s assertion that the annuity was meant to be a trust for the mother, to accomplish the purpose of qualifying her for Medicaid she had to be “divested of ownership over the annuity funds,” and plaintiff and defendant as the named owners had equal ownership interest of the annuity.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Despite this history, a new decision out of the High Court is still shocking in its implications for further attacks on free speech. The court ruled that newspapers and television stations that post articles on social media sites like Facebook are liable for other third party comments on those posts. America Online, Inc.,

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Day on Torts

JANUARY 11, 2021

16, 2020), plaintiff filed suit under the Governmental Tort Liability Act (GTLA) after he was injured in a car accident. Based on these findings, the Court ruled that plaintiff had not met the requirements of the first exception to the Public Duty Doctrine. In Kimble v. Dyer County Tennessee , No. W2019-02042-COA-R3-CV (Tenn.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

In my torts class, I teach defamation and often discuss the California retraction law. Both parties agreed that Virginia law would govern on choice of law since Nunes initiated this lawsuit in Virginia. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit rejected Monsanto’s argument that it could not have violated California’s duty to warn because the Environmental Protection Agency had concluded under the labeling provisions of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act that the herbicide did not pose “any unreasonable risk to man or the environment.”

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 19, 2021

The special reasons which must be established by a claimant are contained in the relevant rules of courts. [14] 14] Where none of the conditions outlined in the Rules are met, the courts must refuse the application for leave. Olayiwola (2005) LPELR-806 (SC). [14]

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