JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more.

Tort 36

Tort Litigation Litigating Manufacturing 36

Day on Torts

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The only issue in this personal injury case was damages. Plaintiff and his experts also testified that plaintiff suffered a traumatic brain injury in the accident. The trial court applied the statutory non-economic damages cap to reduce the award to $1,529,777, which the Court of Appeals affirmed in a lengthy opinion.

Tort 59

Tort Personal Injury Court Court Rules 59

Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 27, 2023

She was a personal injury attorney and they were looking for a receptionist for their small law firm. What I did learn was how to look up statutes and cases. So we did get kind of a field trip and we got to go to the law library and look up statutes and codes and case law. I was 18 and had received my GED.

Paralegal Certificate 130

Paralegal Certificate Paralegal Paralegals Bar Exam 130

SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. Yes, the statute really does have a full cite to the opinion in it. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit held that the California law requiring escrow interest was not preempted by the National Bank Act.

Laws 78

Laws Court Personal Injury Tort 78

InHouseOps

JULY 16, 2021

First, a California District Court approved Facebook’s $650,000,000 biometrics settlement. Illinois is not the only state that regulates biometrics, but it is the only state currently whose biometric statute includes a private right of action. A plaintiff need not show any injury from the violation – just the violation itself.

Laws 52

Laws Litigation Litigating Personal Injury 52

JonathanTurley

AUGUST 25, 2021

The case is brought under statutes like 18 U.S.C. 2255, “Civil Remedy for Personal Injuries,” which provides that any person who is a victim of a violation of child pornography may recover the actual damages or liquidated damages in the amount of $150,000 per victim, and reasonable attorney’s fees. In 2002, the U.S.

Personal Injury 42

Personal Injury Court Rules Tort Statute 42

JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 10, 2022

A tragedy in North Carolina could present rather difficult torts questions in a wrongful death case for a grieving family. The court ruled for Google: “I conclude that it does not require the imposition of a duty. She was seriously injured after being struck by an automobile that was negligently driven by Harwood.

Tort 34

Tort Personal Injury Legal Legal 34

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

In Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies, Supreme Court Held that Appellate Review of Remand Order Extends to All Grounds for Removal. The Court declined to review the companies’ other grounds for removal, finding that the “wiser course” was to allow the Fourth Circuit to address them in the first instance.

Court 42

Court Statute Government Litigation 42