JonathanTurley

MARCH 25, 2021

In my torts class, we discuss sports torts and defenses. Last week, a three-justice panel of the Illinois First District Appellate Court in Chicago ruled against MLB and the Cubs in seeking to enforce the boilerplate language on arbitration printed on the back of baseball tickets.

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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.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 5, 2023

the Supreme Court crafted the actual malice standard that required public officials to shoulder the higher burden of proving defamation. The Court was seeking to protect the media from efforts to deter coverage and commentary through the threat of civil lawsuits. I recently testified on that new evidence. Under New York Times v.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

In its earlier ruling against the Times, the court put the theory of the case succinctly in its leading line: “Gov. 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.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Former President Donald Trump is suing CNN in a $475 million defamation lawsuit, according to a complaint filed in federal court in the Southern District of Florida on Monday. Sullivan, where the Supreme Court held that the first amendment requires breathing space for free speech in criticizing public officials. Butts (1967).

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