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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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2021

Sullivan, sued for defamation and won under Alabama law. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. The New York Times had run an advertisement referring to abuses of civil rights marchers and the arrest of Martin Luther King Jr.

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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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JonathanTurley

APRIL 23, 2021

Sullivan, sued for defamation and won under Alabama law. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. Tort liability for the statements in the flyer would contravene core free speech rights. seven times.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Former President Donald Trump is suing CNN in a $475 million defamation lawsuit, according to a complaint filed in federal court in the Southern District of Florida on Monday. Sullivan, where the Supreme Court held that the first amendment requires breathing space for free speech in criticizing public officials. He prevailed at trial.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 27, 2020

The threat to the free press is obvious and was the basis for foundational court decisions. Sullivan, sued for defamation and won under Alabama law. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. seven times.

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