JURIST

JANUARY 5, 2021

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed a “stand your ground” bill into law Monday, eliminating an individual’s duty to retreat from any place where she is permitted to be before using force to protect herself. The new law will no longer require an individual to retreat from any place where she is lawfully permitted to be.

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Tort Criminal Law Laws Legal 148

JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Opioid litigation has proceeded like a locomotive in part because of Judge Dan Aaron Polster, a federal jurist in Ohio who has been given control of some 2,000 federal cases from across the country under the multidistrict litigation system. Yet the torts system has an elaborate and well-functioning system of product liability.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

In celebration of Thanksgiving, I give you our annual Turkey Torts of civil and criminal cases that add liability to libations on this special day (with past cases at the bottom). Indeed, the torts and crimes recorded this year seem painfully reminiscent of this loathsome year. For example, in Weirum v. He later confessed.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 3, 2021

This is the flip side to lethal-force cases such as last month’s shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant , 16, in Columbus, Ohio, in which Officer Nicholas Reardon used lethal force to stop the stabbing of another girl. For police officers, the city’s defense may seem as familiar as it is frustrating.

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Government Court Rules Court Education 53

JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2021

The second “Count Five” is actually just a demand for punitive damages, rather than an actual separate tort. ” Imagine what would happen to free speech in the United States if people could be sued for their “suggestive words and encouragement” for third parties who later violate the law. In Brandenburg v.

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