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Spooky Torts: The 2023 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. However, my students and I often discuss the remarkably wide range of torts that comes with All Hallow’s Eve. In another June 2023 decision in Munoz v.

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Palin v. NYT: New Evidence Suggests the New York Times Ignored Internal Objections to Palin Editorial

JonathanTurley

Hodgkinson, of Illinois, 66, a liberal activist and Sanders supporter. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. At the time, many objected to the column as a transparent effort to shift attention from the shooting of GOP Rep.

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