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“Disagree Better”: Court Rejects Torts Claims of Taunting Fan Against Russell Westbrook

JonathanTurley

In teaching torts, I begin my discussion of the intentional infliction of emotional distress by having students write in their notes “not everything is the infliction of emotional distress.” Keisel brought an array of tort claims that have now been correctly rejected by the courts.

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South Carolina Supreme Court Declares High School Football Coach Neither a Public Official Nor a Public Figure

JonathanTurley

In my torts class, we discuss the often uncertain line between ordinary citizens and public figures. I have previously written about the continuing questions over the inclusion of the public figures with public officials in tort actions. Baseball may be the national pastime, but it and other sports are just that: pastimes.

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New issue alert: RabelsZ 2/2021

Conflict of Laws

The Law and Economics of Extreme Sports Sponsoring in Comparative Perspective. This article investigates the law and economics of extreme sports sponsoring in a comparative perspective. It is based on 40 structured interviews with sponsored athletes from various common law and civil law jurisdictions.

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Has the Battle Just Begun for Collective Action against Big Tech Companies?

Conflict of Laws

Julia H örnle, Professor of Internet Law, CCLS, Queen Mary University of London [1]. By contrast, courts in California and Canada have found a contractual jurisdiction and applicable law clause invalid as a matter of public policy in order to allow a class action privacy claim to proceed against Facebook. [6]

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Spooky Torts: The 2022 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

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.

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Spooky Torts: The 2021 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

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. A tort action for intentional infliction of emotional distress is likely to fail. The next scary moment is likely to be in the form of a torts complaint.

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Plaintiff’s judgment for student hit by shot put thrown by coach affirmed.

Day on Torts

He had played several sports before but had never “participated in shot put and was not familiar with the event.” He stayed home for 2-3 weeks before being released to return to school, and he was eventually released to return to sports. The testimony showed that the student was a 12-year-old sixth-grader at the time of the incident.

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