JURIST

JANUARY 22, 2024

The US Supreme Court voted 5-4 on Monday to permit federal border patrol agents to cut the razor wire that Texas installed on the US-Mexico border. The Biden administration requested the decision to allow federal agents to access the border without facing tort claims from Texas.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

We have previously discussed Castle Doctrine laws or “make my day” laws, including other cases involving garage shootings or shootings off the property of the homeowner. The common law has long offered ample protections even for reasonable mistakes. The SYG law was widely debated with the George Zimmerman murder case.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 27, 2021

They argue that his Nazi flags are protected First Amendment speech and that he had a right to defend himself under the law. I do not see the reasonable basis for such a use of force in this case even under the highly deferential standards of SYG laws. I teach these cases in my torts class and they raise many of the same issues.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 16, 2021

The complaint below details how Reed stole a handgun from a pawn shop in Texas and livestreamed himself committing a “drive-by” shooting in which he fired the stolen handgun blindly into buildings as he drove past. to prevent the commission of a forcible felony; ?or. .” (Officer Mercer is also African American).The

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2023

This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, PETA’s First Amendment challenge to a North Carolina law that imposes monetary damages on undercover workplace recording. The law at issue was enacted in response to a dispute between Food Lion and ABC News in North Carolina in the late 1990s.

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