JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

In the Georgia trial over the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, Judge Timothy Walmsley delivered a haymaker to the defense on the very eve of closing statements. The court ruled that Georgia’s prior citizen’s arrest law is only applicable if a person sees a felony committed and acts without delay. Here is the prior law: O.C.G.A.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 24, 2022

In teaching torts, we often discuss the vague line between self-defense and retaliation in cases of assault and battery. Clearly Langley could have retreated, but the Georgia law appears only to stipulate a duty to retreat in the use of deadly force.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 25, 2021

Two Georgia election workers filed a complaint Thursday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia against Rudy Giuliani and One America News Network (“OAN”) for promoting claims that they engaged in election fraud during the vote-counting process in the state of Georgia during the 2020 presidential election.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

In celebration of Thanksgiving, I give you our annual Turkey Torts of civil and criminal cases that add liability to libations on this special day (with past cases at the bottom). Indeed, the torts and crimes recorded this year seem painfully reminiscent of this loathsome year. This is going to make this year’s dinner.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

On Tuesday, the justices will confront double jeopardy issues in the case of Damian McElrath , a Georgia man who was found not guilty by reason of insanity on one murder charge arising from the stabbing death of his mother, while he was found guilty but mentally ill on a different murder charge (as well as an aggravated assault charge).

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

bankruptcy, class action, trademark, securities, and tort litigation, to the tune of $50 to $100 billion in investments annually. [10] Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2] 2] Virtually nonexistent in the patent space in the U.S.

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Fordham Law News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

They all used bankruptcy to try to get out of mass tort claims. [1] 8] The second step is to then transfer the tort liabilities into the new corporations. [9] 12] Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson used the Texas two-step to avoid tort liabilities regarding its talc claims. [13] ” [20] What’s next? .”

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 4, 2023

Georgia is also named for its severe limitation on abortion rights. Alvarez-Machain where the Court considered whether the Alien Tort Claims Act granted a private right of action to individuals for torts under the law of nations. ” Scalia repeatedly warned about the application of international law as precedent in U.S.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 15, 2023

A US federal jury Friday ordered former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani to pay $148M in damages to Ruby Freeman and Wandrea Mossin after accusing the two women of tampering with Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results. Freeman and Moss were volunteer election workers in Georgia during the 2020 election.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 28, 2021

In 2010, the Department of Homeland Security rejected Patel’s application to become a permanent resident of the United States, on the ground that when he had applied to renew his Georgia driver’s license in 2008, he had indicated that he was a U.S. In 2012, the federal government began proceedings to deport Patel and his family.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 6, 2023

He has donated to the Federalist Society and given millions of dollars to groups dedicated to tort reform and conservative jurisprudence. He went on a river day trip around Savannah, Georgia, and an extended cruise in New Zealand roughly a decade ago. “I don’t disclose what I’m not required to disclose,” Crow once told the Times.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The case involved a March 23, 1963 edition of The Saturday Evening Post alleging that former University of Georgia football coach Wallace Butts conspired with University of Alabama coach Paul “Bear” Bryant to fix a 1962 football game in Alabama’s favor. The public figure standard was established in Curtis Publishing v. Butts (1967).

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

Georgia , No. Circuit Vacated Trump EPA’s Significant Contribution Rule. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the U.S. The amicus briefs were filed by American Petroleum Institute, National Association of Manufacturers, the Chamber of Congress of the United States of America, and 18 states, led by Indiana.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

For example, in realpolitik we saw evidence of Trump’s victimhood of “rigged” elections starting to ebb in the defeat last week of Jim Jordan of Ohio for the House Speakership and in the guilty pleas of two of Trump’s attorneys and co-defendants Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro in the Georgia RICO case.

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