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. It may be cathartic but it can be costly.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 14, 2022

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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JonathanTurley

APRIL 19, 2023

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. I not only work for Fox as a legal analyst, but I came up in the discovery, albeit tangentially, in the litigation. Sullivan in the 1960s.

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LawTechnologyToday

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Our Panelist: Karina Perez Ilić (KPI) [link] Silvia Amador Brett (SAB) [link] Annabelle Bichler (AB) [link] Jenna Sutter (JS) [link] Brian Mickelsen (BM) is a founding partner of Mickelsen Dalton and a dynamic trial lawyer who has litigated in 12 states. I grabbed my torts outline from law school and a copy of all relevant cases.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 31, 2021

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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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. At its passage, New York officials pounded their chests and promised they were certain of the constitutionality of the law and would litigate it all the way to the Supreme Court.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Litigation is costly. It would now remove that added baggage if Rakoff proceeds to dismiss the case without a verdict. I do not see the alternative to setting the verdict aside but, in the very least, it has added a significant appellate issue. Palin could just walk away, of course.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The undocumented migrants who were transferred to Martha’s Vineyard have quickly adopted one common American practice: litigation. 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. YouTube screengrab. DeSantis.

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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

The latest Baldwin litigation involves the family of a U.S. After the lethal shooting on the set of the movie “Rust,” Baldwin, 63, explained to reporters that his counsel strongly instructed him not to comment on the case, but then launched into a detailed discussion of it. Marine killed in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan.

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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. Trump could argue truth as a defense and fall back on opinion is needed in any litigation. This is a classic example where opinion is protected under tort and constitutional law.

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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

The second “Count Five” is actually just a demand for punitive damages, rather than an actual separate tort. On the existing evidence, they will likely fail on appeal, even if they survive the trial level litigation. There are actually six “counts” listed but there are two count fives in the complaint.

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