JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more.

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Tort Litigation Litigating Manufacturing 43

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. Some 1,800 ate the catered meal.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more.

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Tort Litigation Litigating Manufacturing 35

JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more.

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Tort Litigation Litigating Manufacturing 36

JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The standard for defamation for public figures and officials in the United States is the product of a decision decades ago in New York Times v. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. For Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. Craigslist, Inc. ,

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 4, 2022

We previously discussed an interesting challenge by Prince Andrew to the applicability of the the age-of-consent in New York to the case. ” The prince’s lawyer Andrew B. .” Prince Andrew is arguing effectively that the plural reference includes him. million home with her husband. While the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

Hochul , involving New York State’s mandate that health care workers must have received a COVID-19 vaccination to remain on the job. Monsanto had argued that FIFRA labeling provisions preempted state tort causes of action for failure to warn. First up is Dr. A v.

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