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

The laws have produced perverse results as in the controversial case of Tom Horn in Texas. There is an allowance in torts for mistaken self-defense. These laws are based on an urban legend that people are routinely prosecuted for defending their homes from intruders. A position partially supported by his son. Raymond , 23 Colo.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 27, 2021

I teach these cases in my torts class and they raise many of the same issues. The laws have produced perverse results as in the infamous case of Tom Horn in Texas. Again, these provisions raise whether he had a “reasonable belief” that it was necessary to “meet force with force.”

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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. The only question is whether this is actionable as a matter of torts.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2023

22-1150 Issue : Whether the First Amendment prohibits applying state tort law against double-agent employees who gather information, including by secretly recording, in the nonpublic areas of an employer’s property and who use that information to breach their duty of loyalty to the employer. City of Arlington, Texas v.

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