JURIST
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
The US Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Michigan college student is unable to proceed with a Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) lawsuit against two federal officers who tackled him after mistaking him for a fugitive in 2014. ” The case now returns to the Sixth Circuit for further consideration on this issue.
Constitutional Law Reporter
MARCH 9, 2021
S. _ (2021), the Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Tort Claims Act barred college student James King’s claims of police brutality. The Court unanimously held that the district court’s dismissal of King’s claims under the FTCA triggered the “judgment bar” in 28 U.S.C. In Brownback v.
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Patently O
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
ten years ago—at least in part due to longstanding common law rules on champerty, maintenance, [3] and patent law’s relative high risk—today third-party litigation funding (TPLF) [4] undergirds about 30% of all patent litigation, by conservative estimates. [5] Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]
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.”
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
The most obvious form of civil liability would be some type of tort action. Moreover, arguing that these speakers induced violence under another form of tort liability would be quickly rejected under the First Amendment. The Court in cases like New York Times v. It would also not pass constitutional muster, in my view.
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