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. Steven Novak, an artist from Dallas, Texas, believes that Halloween should be a bit more than a traditional plastic pumpkin and a smiling ghost.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

We had just finished discussing animal liability in my torts when a bizarre case from Halloween surfaced involving the girlfriend of Texas special teams coach Jeff Banks. and they say my torts exams are unrealistic. She later deleted her account (likely after her attorney regained consciousness).

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Sylvia Gonzalez, a newly elected Texas city council member elected on an anti-corruption platform was arrested after her first meeting for “intentionally … conceal[ing] … a government record,” for allegedly taking a petition her supporters had presented to the mayor seeking the removal of a city manager. Gonzalez v. 26 conference) King v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Texas Federal Court Ordered Jurisdictional Discovery in Exxon Case Against Massachusetts Attorney General, Citing Concern That State’s Investigation Was Undertaken in Bad Faith. New York Court Ordered Exxon and Its Accountant to Comply with Attorney General’s Subpoena. McCarthy , No. 5:14 -cv-39 (N.D.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2023

North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein asks the justices to grant review and reverse the 4th Circuit’s decision. Like the attorney general, the association argues that the law is a valid exercise of the state’s power to protect property and business interests. City of Arlington, Texas v. In Stein v.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

In celebration of Thanksgiving, I give you our annual Turkey Torts of civil and criminal cases that add liability to libations on this special day (with past cases at the bottom). Indeed, the torts and crimes recorded this year seem painfully reminiscent of this loathsome year. She also threatened another woman with a carving knife.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

bankruptcy, class action, trademark, securities, and tort litigation, to the tune of $50 to $100 billion in investments annually. [10] 29] Notably, they continue to file and litigate in the Western District of Texas; IP Edge, too, has ceased filing in Delaware, per reporting and data. [30] 15, 2023, 12:14 AM EST, available at law360.com/articles/1573847

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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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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 1, 2021

Marstiller , 20-1263 , presents the question whether the federal Medicaid Act allows state Medicaid programs to recover reimbursement for Medicaid’s payment of a beneficiary’s past medical expenses by taking funds from the beneficiary’s tort recovery that compensate for future medical expenses. We finish with good old private litigation.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The complaint asked the court for compensatory damages, equitable relief, attorneys’ fees, punitive damages, disgorgement of profits, and costs of suit. ExxonMobil Asked Texas Supreme Court to Review Denial of Presuit Discovery Against California Cities and Counties. County of Maui v. Sunoco LP , No. 2CCV-20-0000283 (Haw. 20-0558 (Tex.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Traction: We are adding about 25 people a day as registrants, having fully launched in late October 2023, and have begun demos with attorneys. Altumatim Elevator Pitch: Altumatim is the story-based eDiscovery platform that fully automates document review and finds the most important evidence by learning the story the attorney wants to tell.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Christopher Krebs, has filed a lawsuit against Trump attorney Joe diGenova over this controversial joke that Krebs should be “drawn and quartered” and then “shot” for his failures as the former head of U.S. The lawsuit strikes me as meritless under governing tort doctrines. cybersecurity. Johnson, 491 U.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

In a lawsuit challenging the National Marine Fisheries Service’s 2020 biological opinion concerning oil and gas activities on the outer continental shelf in the Gulf of Mexico, the federal district court for the District of Maryland denied a motion to transfer venue to the Eastern District of Louisiana or the Southern District of Texas.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

Corps of Engineers permit for a natural gas pipeline in Texas until the Corps completes reconsideration of the permit. Maryland Appellate Court Allowed Redaction of Attorney General’s Application to Participate in Special Assistant AG Program. The redacted sections were therefore exempt from disclosure due to attorney-client privilege.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

In two decisions, a Massachusetts Superior Court denied Exxon Mobil Corporation’s (Exxon’s) motions to dismiss an action brought by the Massachusetts Attorney General asserting that Exxon systematically and intentionally misled investors and consumers about climate change. June 16, 2021); Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Department of Interior , No.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) authorization of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from three facilities in Louisiana, Maryland, and Texas. The court also dismissed defamation and related state tort claims. Vermont Court Said Former Attorney General Could Be Deposed on Use of Private Email Account. 349-6-16WNCV (Vt. Jacobson v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

General Land Office of the State of Texas v. Nonprofit Group and Its Board Member Sought to Unseal Records in Attorney General’s Suit Against Exxon. An attorney whose communications with the attorney general’s office the proposed intervenors seek to unseal moved to appear as amicus curiae to oppose intervention.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Sullivan have long limited tort law where it would undermine the first amendment. ” Finally, there is the potential conflict with the First Amendment similar to the Westboro case on the emotional distress tort action. However, this is about the media and a public officials. The Court in cases like New York Times v.

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