JonathanTurley

MARCH 8, 2021

District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine insisted weeks ago that Trump’s alleged crime would be investigated. As if to guarantee failure, Swalwell picked the very tort — emotional distress — that was previously rejected by the Supreme Court.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 19, 2021

I’ve discussed the New York public nuisance law aimed at gun manufacturers, a law that doubles down on a failed legal theory using torts as a substitute for direct legislative bans or barriers. In 2008, the District of Columbia in 2008 brought us District of Columbia v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit concluding that tolling is available for a similarly worded tax provision. In Kwai Fun Wong , which involved a claim under the Federal Tort Claims Act, the Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the majority that to the extent the FTCA was special, it cut in favor of equitable tolling.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit concluded that the Civil Service Reform Act barred such a suit brought by Jason Payne, a civilian employee of the Department of the Navy. Two days earlier, the U.S. ” (relisted after the Sept. 26 and Oct. 6 conferences) King v. relisted after the Sept. 26 and Oct.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2021

The second “Count Five” is actually just a demand for punitive damages, rather than an actual separate tort. A wide array of legal experts insisted that this was a strong and clear case for such a charge and District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine garnered widespread acclaim by announcing soon after the Jan.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 25, 2021

Or you watch a football game with friends and try to explain that the cameraman wiped out by the running back would have a great torts case. They are pushing for the District of Columbia to be made a state, likely adding a two-vote majority for Democrats in the Senate. At the same time, there is a push to end the filibuster.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The federal district court for the District of Columbia cited failures to address climate change as one of the bases for finding that a biological opinion for continued authorization of the Southeast U.S. District of Columbia v. shrimp fisheries in federal waters was arbitrary and capricious. Exxon Mobil Corp. ,

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

Two federal district courts—in Minnesota and the District of Columbia—granted motions to remand cases brought by plaintiffs against the fossil fuel industry. In the District of Columbia, the district court remanded a case brought against Exxon Mobil Corporation (Exxon) by the nonprofit organization Beyond Pesticides under D.C.’s

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 23, 2020

” The complaint notes that 46 states and the District of Columbia have criminalized the dissemination nude or sexually graphic images. Sullivan have long limited tort law where it would undermine the first amendment. The Court in cases like New York Times v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The court said the laws’ provision for criminal or tort liability for advising, encouraging, or soliciting persons participating in a riot to acts of force or violence was overbroad and vague. The court also found that Mann’s lawsuit did not constitute state action and therefore dismissed the writer’s constitutional tort claim.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Circuit to hold the cases in abeyance was to allow the federal district for the District of Columbia to resolve cases challenging NHTSA’s action that raise similar legal issues. The district court scheduled a hearing for April 16, 2020 to consider the defendants’ motion to dismiss or transfer those cases.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

On February 7, 2021, the federal district court for the District of Columbia denied the motion by Red Lake Band, White Earth Band, and other plaintiffs’ for a preliminary injunction in their case challenging U.S. In re Enbridge Energy, LP , Nos. A20-1071 (Minn. Army Corps of Engineers permits for the pipeline project.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

Supreme Court denied fossil fuel companies’ petition for writ of certiorari seeking review of the Ninth Circuit’s decision reversing the district court’s 2018 denial of Oakland’s and San Francisco’s motions to remand their climate change nuisance cases to California state court.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The court also dismissed defamation and related state tort claims. Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit in the federal district court for the District of Columbia seeking to compel the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

On May 24, 2021, the mandate issued for the Second Circuit’s judgment affirming dismissal of New York City’s tort law-based case against fossil fuel companies. Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit in federal district court in the District of Columbia requesting that the court order the U.S. Chevron Corp.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The appellate court also agreed with the court below that it was not appropriate to recognize a new tort of “intentional investment in abnormally dangerous activities” advocated by the plaintiffs on behalf of future generations.

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