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US Supreme Court will consider liability shields for online platforms, seven additional new cases

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1252(d)(1) which holds that immigrants must first exhaust all administrative remedies before turning to a federal court for review. Glacier brought a tort claim against the Teamsters for the loss of concrete. The Teamsters are asking that the court affirm this lower court ruling, while Glacier seeks to enforce state tort law.

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Military jurisdiction and two cases on arbitration and wage disputes

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Although the district court ruled that Sundance had waived its arbitration argument by not making it earlier, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit reversed because of “the absence of a showing of prejudice to Morgan.” Ohio, ex rel. United States. Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft v.

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Petitions of the week: Four petitions that test the limits on lawsuits against the government

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The district court ruled that Ex parte Young applied because Congress’ approval of the compact made it binding federal law. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit disagreed and barred the suit, seeing the compact as more akin to an agreement that New Jersey could — and did — renounce. Ohio attaches to anyone near the shots.

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Guest Post: Third-Party Litigation Funding: Disclosure to Courts, Congress, and the Executive

Patently O

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] 33 (Federal district court local rules). [23] 1; E.D.N.C.

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Chopped: Will Seattle Officials Now Claim Immunity From Lawsuits After Opposing Such Defenses For Police Officers?

JonathanTurley

This is the flip side to lethal-force cases such as last month’s shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant , 16, in Columbus, Ohio, in which Officer Nicholas Reardon used lethal force to stop the stabbing of another girl. In 1855, the Supreme Court ruled in South v. In 1982, in Harlow v.

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Spooky Torts: The 2023 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

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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MSNBC Analyst Calls for Liability for Boebert and Carlson … for the Colorado Shootings

JonathanTurley

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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