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.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 30, 2022
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.
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Conflict of Laws
MARCH 29, 2023
The Court granted an (interim) anti-enforcement injunction in relation to a default judgment worth USD136,290,994 obtained in Kentucky (note that the order was made last year but the judgment has only now been released). Kea alleges that the US default judgment is based on fabricated claims intended to defraud Kea.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 31, 2021
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. A tort action for intentional infliction of emotional distress is likely to fail. The next scary moment is likely to be in the form of a torts complaint.
JonathanTurley
AUGUST 6, 2021
We have previously discussed animal liability in torts. It is often said the every dog gets one free bite in American torts. However, the “one free bite rule” is a commonly misunderstood torts doctrine — suggesting that you are not subject to strict liability until after the first time your dog bites someone.
JonathanTurley
MAY 12, 2021
Today Bob Baffert, the trainer of the 2021 Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit, admitted today that the now disqualified horse was treated with an anti-fungal ointment called Otomax, which includes betamethasone. So in the 147th Kentucky Derby people put down huge sums not just on the winning horse but horses to place and show.
JonathanTurley
MARCH 4, 2023
” The 13 states expressly named are thirteen states: Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Oklahoma. Georgia is also named for its severe limitation on abortion rights. .” cases, including in his concurring opinion in Sosa v.
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