Criminal Law Legal Statute Tort 
The Crime Report
JUNE 27, 2022
Describing three Minneapolis officers who watched their colleague Derek Chauvin murder George Floyd as a deadly case of “police bystanderism,” University of Houston Law Prof. Kaufman writes that Congress and state legislatures should enact criminal laws mandating a “duty to intervene” in their colleagues’ misuse of force.
Conflict of Laws
MARCH 23, 2024
It evidently has not stopped claimants from seeking enforcement of punitive damage awards in other civil law legal systems. Rademacher then analysed whether punitive elements could be found in German tort law. She pointed out that although parliament abolished punitive damages in certain areas of law (e.g.
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JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 21, 2021
” The Oklahoma Supreme Court last week struck down a $465 million opioid award against Johnson & Johnson based on a legal theory that has previously been tried and failed against guns. Judge Polster pushed drug makers to settle before clearly establishing legal liability. Yet it leaves the matter far from resolved.
JonathanTurley
MAY 24, 2022
In teaching torts, we often discuss the vague line between self-defense and retaliation in cases of assault and battery. That issue will now be at the heart of a criminal charge against former Broncos cornerback Brendan Langley who was charged with assault after hitting a United Airlines employee. 2C:3-5, N.J.S.2C:3-9, 1; 1999, c.73.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Now, the activist with Direct Action Everywhere has filed a police report and is threatening legal action. The common law allowed for citizen arrests as members of the public responded to the “hue and cry” of others. This would not amount to a common law version of “roughing the protester.”
JonathanTurley
MAY 13, 2021
A story in Houston has everything you would want in a legal controversy: a murder, a mysterious figure known only as “D”, a missing Bengal tiger named India and even Carole Baskin of Tiger King fame. He is facing both criminal and potential tort liability for the tiger incident. Cuevas’ bond now is revoked.
JonathanTurley
MARCH 10, 2021
There is a tragic case out of Omaha that has led to a notable decision over tort liability for psychiatrists. Regents of University of California , which I teach in my torts class. There is also an interesting concurring opinion by Justice Jonathan Papik on the broader scope given the statute by the Court. ” Munstermann v.
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