JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In 2022, the American Bar Association required law schools to “provide education to law students on bias, cross-cultural competency, and racism: (1) at the start of the program of legal education, and (2) at least once again before graduation.” I have long incorporated race issues in my classes.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 7, 2021

Moreover, our tort for the public disclosure of embarrassing private facts has an exclusion for “newsworthy” stories. The exception is so broad that many have complained that it has “swallowed the tort.” Yet, it operates under a hazy set of laws that often treats journalism as a privilege.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 21, 2021

The New York Times is reporting that a Rutgers Law Professor and law student are under fire after the student reluctantly read the n-word in a 1993 legal opinion. It is the latest such controversy in high education. I am assuming that the professor and students were discussing State v. That does not make them racists.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

To decide which cases to prioritize, he collected a variety of syllabi for basic law school courses such as constitutional law and torts and extracted the key cases. Gunnerbot is essentially the fully developed version of the quick query Neal did back in that law school class.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JANUARY 31, 2022

The central issue before the Court in both cases is whether the vaccine mandates should be allowed to move forward while the legal challenges work their way through the lower courts. The post Justices Hear Oral Arguments in Four Cases appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

It was a tour-de-force on the value of satire to make profound legal and political points. Parody and satire also face threats from other legal actions, particularly tort actions over the appropriation of names or likenesses (called the right to publicity). Image from Supreme Court Petition.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 6, 2021

I have been a vocal critic of Feres for decades and wrote a three-part study of the military legal system 20 years ago that detailed how this doctrine began in 1950 with a clearly erroneous reading of the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA). The West Point case shows the legal lunacy and lethality of this doctrine.

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LawTechnologyToday

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Alfonso Nevárez (AN) of Nevarez Law Group is a skilled injury lawyer that has litigated cases involving catastrophic injuries and death against some of the largest corporations in the world In 1998, Lance Entrekin (LE) started The Entrekin Law Firm to assist injury victims in the state of Arizona. Your classmates may refer you cases.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 23, 2023

Roice responded correctly that “protesting is perfectly legal in the country and I’ve already had my sit down with the FBI. He wrote: “When I sent the $ for your late brother, out of real respect for his service to this country, I didn’t know you were a January 6th rioter.” Thanks, have a nice day!”

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 19, 2023

As a legal analyst on Fox News, I have largely refrained from writing about the case. Many of us who teach in the areas of tort and constitutional law were uneasy over the impact of a verdict in light of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in New York Times v. That was roughly half of the $1.6

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2021

Sullivan’s lawsuit was one of a number of civil actions brought under state laws that targeted Northern media covering the violence against freedom marchers. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. Here is the opinion: Project Veritas v.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 14, 2022

It is a curious defense because it is not a legal defense. In recent public statements , Heard insists that “I never named him, rather I wrote about the price women pay for speaking against men in power.” ” Her counsel emphasized that fact in their opening arguments. Heard can have still defamed Depp without mentioning him.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The reason is that these legislative measure are propelled by political rather than legal judgment. The gun nuisance law is the latest in a long line of mistakes by New York. 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.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 17, 2021

Fortunately, the government has been largely benign in the use of such laws but there are far greater restrictions placed on British media than their American cousins. For full disclosure, I was until a few months ago a legal analyst for the BBC). She sued Associated Newspapers, which publishes U.K. For example, in Sidis v.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 7, 2022

We have previously discussed this tort theory. The claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress fails for the additional reason that the conduct alleged by the plaintiff is not so extreme or outrageous as to be covered by the tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress. Such lawsuits are very difficult to maintain.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 25, 2021

the Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. In my view, the case is not only lacking legal merit but would pose a serious threat to artistic expression under the First Amendment. In New York Times v. Here is the complaint: Elden v.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

” The filing is a Jackson Pollock of legal claims with twelve claims thrown against Florida from false imprisonment to intentional infliction of emotional distress to misuse of the Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund. The filing of a lawsuit upon entry to the United States is not unprecedented, of course.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 15, 2022

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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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 24, 2022

Where Baldwin famously adopted the persona of Trump for Saturday Night Live, he will now likely adopt his actual legal defense to fend off the family of a Marine killed in Afghanistan. Roice responded correctly that “protesting is perfectly legal in the country and I’ve already had my sit down with the FBI.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 2, 2022

“Although the Final Judgment ultimately rests on the Court’s dismissal of the action under Rule 50, that legal conclusion is reinforced by the jury’s verdict that defendants are not-liable. It is frankly absurd. Yet, Rakoff blissfully brushes such concerns to the side.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Rakoff came up with a curious legal version of a palindrome in the defamation trial of former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin v. That issue would have to be decided by the Supreme Court however given the prior ruling in New York Times v. Here is the column: In a trial in New York, federal judge Jed S.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For the record, I am a legal analyst for Fox News, though I have spent my entire academic and professional career opposing criminal and civil efforts to punish or chill free speech. 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

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

” The lawsuit is novel and would create new law, if successful. However, after reading the filing, I remain skeptical of the legal basis for the action. The complaint alleges that the defendants sought to “obstruct a constitutional proceeding by intimidating and retaliating against a key witness.” 1985(2).

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JonathanTurley

MAY 23, 2021

.” What is most interesting about this lawsuit is how it is arguably meritless under both tort and constitutional law. However, there has been little pushback from a host of lawyers who have spent months calling for sanctions against Republican lawyers for filing lawsuits viewed legally or factually meritless.

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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

JULY 15, 2022

after her allegation that a witness lied under oath in opposing gun laws three years ago in a hearing. In a hearing this month, she made the allegation against Heritage Foundation legal fellow and Second Amendment expert Amy Swearer. That exposes witnesses to abuse without legal recourse. Katie Porter (D.,

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 13, 2021

The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. Thus, Sherrill should reveal the House members who she believes conspired with rioters, which presumably she has already given to legal authorities. Either possibility is unsettling.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Sullivan’s lawsuit was one of a number of civil actions brought under state laws that targeted Northern media covering the violence against freedom marchers. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2021

Eric Swalwell against former President Donald Trump as a serious miscalculation that could result in a legal vindication for Trump either on the trial or appellate levels. In my view, the lawsuit contravenes free speech as well as controlling case law from the Supreme Court. I recently wrote about the lawsuit by Rep.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 8, 2021

After all, an array of legal experts has insisted for months that this was clear criminal incitement, not an exercise of free speech. As if to guarantee failure, Swalwell picked the very tort — emotional distress — that was previously rejected by the Supreme Court. One might think this would be a lead-pipe cinch of a case.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

There are a couple torts that could be raises but neither would be compelling in this circumstance. The second tort is the inclusion upon seclusion. Ironically, I am far more concerned about Gibson’s view of criminal and constitutional law than I am her alleged online fetish. However, this was not a private fact.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 21, 2021

Even law professors have succumbed to this low-grade form of debate. Figures like Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe now regularly engage in profane and personal attacks when they disagree on political or legal issues. We can have passionate debates without resorting to such juvenile and offensive attacks.

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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. Yet the true president at that moment was in Florida: Donald Trump legally would remain in office for ten more minutes, under the 20th Amendment.

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