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Spooky Torts: The 2023 List of Litigation Horrors

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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

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Black churches feeling like they are going to get shot up, like at a Bible study that’s happened in South Carolina. The most obvious form of civil liability would be some type of tort action. The Court in cases like New York Times v. It would also not pass constitutional muster, in my view. In Brandenburg v.

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June 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The court denied, however, Connecticut’s motion for costs and fees, noting that several issues raised by Exxon were novel in the Second Circuit and that many relevant portions of district court rulings in other circuits had not been subject to appellate review until the Supreme Court’s recent decision in the Baltimore case.

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