JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Generally there is no duty to rescue or to call police under the common law. For example, Washington state allows for the charging of a misdemeanor. The law covers violent crimes, sexual assault, and assault of a child. In torts, there is no duty to rescue rule. Cf: Restatement, Torts, § 322. French, 104 Pa.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

I also teach critical race theory, alongside other legal theories to my first-year torts students. Those efforts received a boost recently from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, which rejected the free speech claims of North Carolina State University Professor Stephen Porter. Jonathan Turley is the J.B.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

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. The most serious allegation is that Florida officials “told them they were flying to Boston or Washington, D.C., which was completely false.”

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2020

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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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 10, 2024

Such releases, however, occurred in prior administrations and the merits of these claims are still being argued in court. The courts have long recognized that presidents are allowed to establish priorities in the enforcement of federal laws, even when those priorities tend to lower enforcement for certain groups or areas.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 25, 2021

Or you watch a football game with friends and try to explain that the cameraman wiped out by the running back would have a great torts case. It will be a fun bit of trivia for constitutional law geeks, but it was also telling. Some of these executive orders, if implemented directly, could be challenged in court.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Here is the column: For those of us who teach torts, we are living in the golden age of defamation. Most recently, after numerous efforts to dismiss the case, The New York Times found itself in court defending an editorial that bizarrely appeared to blame former Alaska Gov. Devin Nunes, R-Calif. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 27, 2021

Last September, Stanford University and University of Washington researchers wrote that a Project Veritas video alleging voter fraud with unidentified sources was what a “a domestic, coordinated elite disinformation campaign looks like in the United States.” Project Veritas has been accused of misleading edits or accounts.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 12, 2021

The highlight of the package, though, is a new law allowing people harmed by firearms to sue the manufacturers. Not only does that law face serious constitutional challenges but similar lawsuits brought on similar grounds have failed miserably in the courts. Either way, it is not the law being pitched to the public.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 19, 2021

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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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

The court’s curious handling of the case backfired. That issue would have to be decided by the Supreme Court however given the prior ruling in New York Times v. Rakoff was previously reversed by the federal court of appeals for dismissing the action. Here is the column: In a trial in New York, federal judge Jed S.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 24, 2022

However, Roice later shared a photo on Instagram of herself at the Washington Monument, participating in the Jan. The Supreme Court has held that “public figure” status applies when someone “thrust[s] himself into the vortex of [the] public issue [and] engage[s] the public’s attention in an attempt to influence its outcome.”

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 14, 2022

Depp is suing Heard for $50 million based largely on an 2018 Washington Post opinion piece where she described herself a survivor of domestic and sexual violence. Sullivan, the Supreme Court held that the first amendment requires breathing space for free speech in criticizing public officials. In New York Times v.

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