Court Rules New York Statute Tort 
JonathanTurley
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
Despite this history, a new decision out of the High Court is still shocking in its implications for further attacks on free speech. The court ruled that newspapers and television stations that post articles on social media sites like Facebook are liable for other third party comments on those posts. 47 U.S.C. §
SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 8, 2021
This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider cases and statutes about suing various government entities, ranging from two counties to a state governor to the United States itself. Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor v. The governor argued that sovereign immunity barred the suit.
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JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 31, 2023
Below is an expanded version of my column in the New York Post on the return of Halloween and joy of little litigators in anticipation of the return of the festival of Samhain. The result is a wicked brew of negligence, product defects, intentional torts, and every other tort and crime known above the netherworld.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 30, 2023
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.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
OCTOBER 7, 2019
The federal district court for the District of South Dakota temporarily enjoined enforcement of provisions of a riot boosting statute enacted in South Dakota in 2019 in response to anticipated protests of the Keystone XL pipeline. New York Court Dismissed Challenge to Local Zoning Law that Restricted Development of Solar Facilities.
JonathanTurley
AUGUST 25, 2021
The case is brought under statutes like 18 U.S.C. Supreme Court ruled against a provision of federal law that banned computer simulations and virtual pornography under the first amendment. In New York Times v. Civil and statutory claims can be curtailed by constitutional limitations. This is such a case in my view.
JonathanTurley
FEBRUARY 20, 2021
United States District Judge Laura Taylor Swain issued a ruling in New York to apply Virginia’s choice of law standard that in turn applied California’s defamation laws. He is facing criminal charges in New York. In my torts class, I teach defamation and often discuss the California retraction law.
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