JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

For torts scholars, it has been a bonanza of interesting issues touching on every element of defamation law. There is now an important ruling out of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit that could have enormous implications not just for the media but anyone who retweets stories or claims.

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Tort Immigration Cause of Action Court Rules 51

SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 24, 2020

This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to delve further into contentious issues of immigration policy. If the justices take up the border-wall case, it will be the second case added to the court’s docket this term involving the legality of border-wall construction. Mexico border wall. In New York v.

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Immigration Construction Government Cause of Action 107

SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

The petitioners also ask the court to overrule Employment Division v. Smith , which holds that laws of general applicability that burden religious exercise are not subject to strict scrutiny. The court faced but did not decide the issue of whether to overrule Smith in Fulton v. Both the district court and the U.S.

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Government Education Court Cause of Action 99