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Project Veritas Wins Victory Against New York Times In Defamation Action

JonathanTurley

While it has received little coverage in the mainstream media, the conservative group Project Veritas won a major victory against the New York Times this week in a defamation case with potentially wide reach. Notably, this follows another significant loss by the New York Times to Sarah Palin last year. seven times.

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Spooky Torts: The 2023 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

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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Spooky Torts: The 2022 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

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.

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Spooky Torts: The 2021 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

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. A tort action for intentional infliction of emotional distress is likely to fail. The next scary moment is likely to be in the form of a torts complaint.

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The Case Against Andrew Weissmann: MSNBC Analyst and Mueller Aide Faces a Trump-Like Lawsuit

JonathanTurley

In New York Times v. I have previously written about the continuing questions over the inclusion of the public figures with public officials in tort actions. In another communication, Hutchinson expressed doubt about Passantino’s media strategy to wait until after her deposition. I have to go in person next Tuesday.

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This week’s relists: preemption of consumer protection laws, bankruptcy claims, COVID mandates and. Chevron deference again?

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NBCUniversal was denied as anticipated , which drew a separate opinion from Justice Clarence Thomas noting that he would be inclined to reconsider New York Times v. Kivett , and the New York state law in Cantero v. From last week’s relists , Blankenship v. The California state law at issue in Flagstar Bank v. 26 and Oct.

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Cuomo Accused of Being Serial Harasser as Cuomo Attacks Accusers as Political Hacks

JonathanTurley

The late New York Gov. However, his son, Andrew Cuomo, the current New York governor, moved today from presumed sinner but presumed assaulter. Andrew Cuomo is looking as years of litigation, including depositions as not just a sinner but a virtual predator.

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