JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The New York Times lost a critical effort to block the defamation lawsuit brought by University of Alabama basketball player Kai Spears. The Times ran an article “A Fourth Alabama Player Was at a Deadly Shooting, in a Car Hit by Bullets.” We have previously discussed retraction statutes that can limit damages or actions.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2021

The officers seek $75,000 in damages in their complaint but also ask for unspecified punitive damages. The second “Count Five” is actually just a demand for punitive damages, rather than an actual separate tort. COUNT FOUR (Violation of a Public Safety Statute: D.C. Tommy Tuberville.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The First Circuit—like the Fourth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits in other climate change cases—concluded that the scope of its appellate review was limited to whether the defendants properly removed the case under the federal-officer removal statute. Oceana, Inc. Ross , No. 1:12-cv-00041 (D.D.C. County of Maui v. Sunoco LP , No.

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