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Guest Commentary: New Italian Constitutional Reform: What it Means for Environmental Protection, Future Generations & Climate Litigation

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

On February 8, 2022, the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic gave its final approval to the proposed constitutional law A.C.3156-B 3156-B providing environmental protection amendments to Articles 9 and 41 of the Italian Constitution. Rights-based climate litigation has been increasing substantially in recent years.

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Alec Baldwin’s Trump Defense: A Torts Case Where Imitation Merged With Litigation

JonathanTurley

Your activities resulted in the unlawful destruction of government property, the death of a law enforcement officer, an assault on the certification of the presidential election. Baldwin, however, took the issue public and seemed to taunt Roice that he would make her infamous: “I don’t think so. I reposted your photo.

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“Take What You Can, Give Nothing Back”: The Depp Defamation Trial and the Curious Legal Position of Celebrities in Litigation

JonathanTurley

Depp and Heard were married for just over a year but have already spent three times than that in litigation. Depp earlier tried to sued a newspaper in England where the libel laws are far more favorable to those claiming defamation. Malice is one thing that this briefly married couple seems to have an abundance of.

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“Refuse At Your Peril”: Does The Lincoln Project Have A Credible Defamation Case Against Giuliani?

JonathanTurley

As someone who has taught defamation torts for thirty years, the Trump Administration has been a bonanza of such cases and controversies. I regularly criticized Donald Trump for his calls to change defamation laws. In order to prevail, a litigant must show either actual knowledge of its falsity or a reckless disregard of the truth.

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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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At a vestige of the Manhattan Project, a fight over workers’ compensation and intergovernmental immunity

SCOTUSBlog

Share Under established constitutional law, states may generally not tax or regulate property or operations of the federal government. A 1936 federal law waives federal immunity from state workers’ compensation laws on federal land and projects. This principle is known as intergovernmental immunity. Washington.

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Baldwin’s Trump Defense: How A Defamation Lawsuit May Be Baldwin’s Greatest Parody

JonathanTurley

The latest Baldwin litigation involves the family of a U.S. Your activities resulted in the unlawful destruction of government property, the death of a law enforcement officer, an assault on the certification of the presidential election. Marine killed in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan. I reposted your photo. Good luck.”.

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