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“Corners Were Being Cut”: Baldwin Shooting Already Has The Makings of a Blockbuster Tort Action

JonathanTurley

The fatal shooting at Bonanza Creek Ranch already has the makings of a blockbuster tort action. ” The question is not whether but when the first torts lawsuit will be filed. .” What is clear is that there is an abundance of evidence to support a tort action even at this early stage.

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Ohio governor signs bill expanding ‘stand your ground’ rights

JURIST

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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The Case for Punishing ‘Police Bystanders’

The Crime Report

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.

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UK Supreme Court rules person under criminal investigation has reasonable expectation of privacy

JURIST

Claiming a tort of misuse of private information, ZXC sought damages and injunctive relief against Bloomberg. Bloomberg’s move defied national guidelines given the letter’s confidentiality indicators.

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Who’s Afraid of Punitive Damages? – Conference in Augsburg, Germany

Conflict of Laws

Rademacher took a closer look at the BGH’s landmark decision from 1992, which deemed the concept of punitive damages intolerable in Germany mainly because its function to punish and deter doesn’t fall in the scope of German private law’s concept of strict compensation; punishment and deterrence are entirely reserved for criminal law.

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The Potter Verdict: Was The Jury Right But the Law Wrong on Culpable Negligence?

JonathanTurley

The case highlights the problem with criminalized negligence standards, particularly in these weapon confusion cases. The question is whether justice is truly served by applying criminal laws to acts of negligence by officers in these cases. There is a tendency to treat criminal law as the only way to address fatal tragedies.

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Does the Justice System’s ‘Black Box Secrecy’ Violate the Constitution?

The Crime Report

justice system’s increasing lack of transparency raises serious constitutional concerns , according to a forthcoming American Criminal Law Review paper. . Ryan is an Associate Dean for Research, Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor, and Professor of Law at the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law.