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

OCTOBER 30, 2022

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.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

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. Such candies include the main active ingredient linked to the psychedelic effects of cannabis – the plant from which marijuana is derived.

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Tort Litigation Litigating Manufacturing 36

LettersBlogatory

AUGUST 23, 2021

Phillip decision , I am in the unhappy position of having to side with the Nazi collaborators on the main legal issue in the case. It creates an exception to foreign sovereign immunity but does not itself create a cause of action. 1605A, does not just create an exception to immunity but also creates a federal cause of action).

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Panels of this kind were the main reason why the fire at Grenfell Tower in London had spread so rapidly. For claims in tort in relation to goods that have caused personal injury, the relevant choice of law rules favoured application of the law of the place of injury.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2022

Cassirer’s heirs make three main arguments. Second, Congress enacted the FSIA in light of the background principle of federalism that state law, including state choice-of-law doctrines, should apply to state causes of action, and nothing in the statute indicates any intent to deviate from that principle. In Richards v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The First Circuit—like the Fourth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits in other climate change cases—concluded that the scope of its appellate review was limited to whether the defendants properly removed the case under the federal-officer removal statute. Maine High Court Said State Law Would Not Preempt Local Ordinance Prohibiting Crude Oil Loading.

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