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JURIST
OCTOBER 4, 2022
The US Supreme Court Monday granted certiorari in nine new cases, including two cases on liability shields for online platforms. Google , the court is asked to consider the scope of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act , which broadly shields online platforms from liability for content posted by the platforms’ users.
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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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
JANUARY 8, 2021
This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider cases and statutes about suing various government entities, ranging from two counties to a state governor to the United States itself. The district court ruled that Ex parte Young applied because Congress’ approval of the compact made it binding federal law.
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
The most obvious form of civil liability would be some type of tort action. With 382 saleswomen and models, the court found that the group was too large. However, with the 25 salesmen, the court found that an action could be maintained. The Court in cases like New York Times v. This would fail for the same reason.
SCOTUSBlog
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
United States considers constitutional limits to military courts’ jurisdiction over retired servicemembers. Begani was tried and convicted by court-martial. In his petition, Begani asks the Supreme Court to review this decision and to limit military jurisdiction over retirees. In 2011’s AT&T Mobility LLC v. Sundance, Inc.
JonathanTurley
MARCH 31, 2021
In my view, the lawsuit contravenes free speech as well as controlling case law from the Supreme Court. The second “Count Five” is actually just a demand for punitive damages, rather than an actual separate tort. The Supreme Court still overturned the conviction. The 40-page lawsuit was written by D.C.
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