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TikTok Torts: Idaho Professor Sues “Internet Sleuth” for Defamation Over Idaho Murders

JonathanTurley

Guillard is a Texas-based social media commentator, and accused Scofield of arranging the murder of Xana Kernodle, her boyfriend Ethan Chapin, and Kernodle’s roommates Maddie Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves in their Moscow (Idaho) house on Nov. Scofield denies ever meeting any of the victims, let alone having an affair with one of them.

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New York’s Circular Firing Squad: Gun Groups Sue Over Latest Legislative Misfire on Gun Control

JonathanTurley

Not only is the law likely to be a large miss, it will likely deliver another blow to gun control efforts by adding precedent protecting Second Amendment rights. City of Chicago , in which the Court declared that that right is incorporated against state and local government. In 2010, Chicago brought us McDonald v.

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Three Martha Vineyard Migrants File Lawsuit Against DeSantis

JonathanTurley

Indeed, I teach in torts where an immigrant to the United States filed a tort action for an involuntary inoculation upon entry in O’Brien v. This is a civil action that, even if it can survive threshold challenges, will be in the court system for a long time in seeking to establish these claims.

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Krebs Files Lawsuit Against diGenova, The Trump Campaign, and Newsmax

JonathanTurley

The lawsuit strikes me as meritless under governing tort doctrines. Torts cases of defamation often turn common understanding of such expression as jokes or opinion. The lawsuit not only contradicts governing case law but threatens constitutional protections for free speech and the free press in seeking such tort relief.

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The Case Against the Impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas

JonathanTurley

Some of us have also questioned his integrity , particularly in controversies like the false claims that border agents whipped migrants in Texas. Such releases, however, occurred in prior administrations and the merits of these claims are still being argued in court. It is a matter of discretion. 2680(a) for policy-based judgments.

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Former Rep. Hill Files Lawsuit Against Former Husband And Media Over Public Disclosures

JonathanTurley

This case pleads that everybody, even publicly elected officials and celebrities, is owed the right to sexual privacy and redress from our courts when they experience intimate partner violence.”. The use of emotional distress claims runs against the grain of various cases, including the Westboro decision of the Supreme Court in 2011.

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