JURIST

JANUARY 22, 2024

The US Supreme Court voted 5-4 on Monday to permit federal border patrol agents to cut the razor wire that Texas installed on the US-Mexico border. The Biden administration requested the decision to allow federal agents to access the border without facing tort claims from Texas.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The laws have produced perverse results as in the controversial case of Tom Horn in Texas. There is an allowance in torts for mistaken self-defense. It turned out to be a deputy sheriff but the court found that Courvoisier could rely on reasonable mistaken self-defense. .” A position partially supported by his son.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 27, 2021

McVey had just torn down Feaster’s Nazi flag and he claimed that he was in fear of an “imminent Antifa attack on his home” last June, according to a court motion in the case. I teach these cases in my torts class and they raise many of the same issues. ” He shot McVey in the lower abdomen and legs as she ran away.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 16, 2021

The complaint below details how Reed stole a handgun from a pawn shop in Texas and livestreamed himself committing a “drive-by” shooting in which he fired the stolen handgun blindly into buildings as he drove past. to prevent the commission of a forcible felony; ?or. .” (Officer Mercer is also African American).The Evans 750 F.2d

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2023

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, PETA’s First Amendment challenge to a North Carolina law that imposes monetary damages on undercover workplace recording.

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