JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 31, 2023
In teaching torts, I begin my discussion of the intentional infliction of emotional distress by having students write in their notes “not everything is the infliction of emotional distress.” Keisel brought an array of tort claims that have now been correctly rejected by the courts.
LawSites
APRIL 27, 2022
Last week, Filevine , the Utah-based case management company, raised $108 million in a Series D funding round. Before starting Filevine, Anderson was a founding partner at a western-states law firm focused on personal injury, mass torts and employment class-actions.
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Attorney at Work
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Utah is in the early stages of a seven-year “regulatory sandbox” pilot program to conduct its own experiment with alternative business structures. It is a realistic prediction that we’ll live in a world where thousands of estate planning lawyers work for Fidelity, and hedge funds run the most significant plaintiff tort outfits.
LawSites
AUGUST 9, 2022
Just two weeks earlier, Utah had approved sweeping changes in legal services regulation that that allowed non-traditional legal services providers. As states seek to find innovative ways to address the access-to-justice crisis, a key component has been eliminating or loosening the prohibition on non-lawyer ownership of law firms.
JonathanTurley
MARCH 8, 2021
As if to guarantee failure, Swalwell picked the very tort — emotional distress — that was previously rejected by the Supreme Court. Mike Lee (R-Utah) instead of Sen. Enter Swalwell, who has long exhibited a willingness to rush in where wiser Democrats fear to tread, with what may be his costliest misstep yet. Then at 2:26 p.m.,
JonathanTurley
MARCH 31, 2021
The second “Count Five” is actually just a demand for punitive damages, rather than an actual separate tort. Around 2:26, Trump mistakenly called Utah Sen. There are actually six “counts” listed but there are two count fives in the complaint. The first five counts are: COUNT ONE (Directing Assault and Battery).
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
JULY 2, 2021
BLM Dropped Appeal of Adverse Decision on Environmental Review for Utah Coal Mine Expansion. The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals granted the federal government’s unopposed motion for voluntary dismissal of its appeal of a March 2021 District of Utah decision that found that the U.S. Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment v.
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