JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

He argued that academic integrity was being sacrificed for sports. In that case, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of public high school teacher Marvin Pickering, who wrote a letter to the local newspaper criticizing a school board’s allocation of funding for athletic programs. The decision is a substantial victory for free speech.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Below is my column in the Hill on New York’s latest gun control measure — and the latest challenge to a New York law. The gun nuisance law is the latest in a long line of mistakes by New York. An example is the recent New York public nuisance law seeking to make gun manufacturers liable for gun crime.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Boebert and Carlson are outspoken in their opposition to gender transitioning for children, transgender athletes competing in girl’s sporting event, and other current controversies. It would also not pass constitutional muster, in my view. The most obvious form of civil liability would be some type of tort action.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 25, 2021

Here is the column: There are times when being a law professor ruins everything. 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.

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