JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 6, 2023

There are 33 states with retraction statutes. Judge Frank Easterbrook wrote that “although the article drips with disapproval of Wilkow’s (and the judges’) conduct, an author’s opinion about business ethics isn’t defamatory under Illinois law.” .” These retraction letters are often the open salvo in defamation actions.

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InHouseOps

JULY 16, 2021

In January, a group of New York state legislators introduced a biometrics regulation bill that contains a private right of action similar to the already enacted Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). Third, Holiday Inn was sued in Illinois by its own insurance company for making a coverage claim for a biometric class action.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 29, 2022

LeDure asked the justices to interpret a key phrase of the Locomotive Inspection Act , a federal statute that requires railroads to regularly inspect and implement safety measures for their locomotives. The act applies only to locomotives that are in “use” (or “allowed to be used”) on the railroad’s line.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Yes, the statute really does have a full cite to the opinion in it. Brownback , 22-912 Issue : Whether the Federal Tort Claims Act’s judgment bar, which this court has repeatedly said functions in much the same way as the common-law doctrine of res judicata, nevertheless operates to bar claims brought together in the same action.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

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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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Brownback , involving whether the Federal Tort Claims Act’s “judgment bar,” which bars any claim based on the same subject matter as a dismissed FTCA case, applies when both the actions were originally brought together. The Supreme Court did not grant review in any new cases since our last installment. In Cargill , the en banc U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 1, 2021

20-219 , asks whether the compensatory damages available under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and the statutes that incorporate its remedies, such as the Rehabilitation Act and the Affordable Care Act , include compensation for emotional distress. City of Chicago, Illinois , 20-1214. Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller P.L.L.C. ,

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

The Court held that the provision used “extension” in its “temporal sense,” but that the statute did not impose a “continuity requirement” and instead allowed small refineries to apply for hardship extensions “at any time.” In re Enbridge Energy, LP , Nos.

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