ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. and non-U.S. Here are the additions to the U.S. 24, 2016).

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 31, 2022

The Ohio Supreme Court had rejected what should be Oberlin College’s final appeal of a verdict in favor of Gibson’s Bakery. Oberlin President Carmen Twillie Ambar and the Board burned through millions in litigation costs above the damages rather than admit that the college was wrong in the targeting of this grocery.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 24, 2023

It is cross-posted at Transnational Litigation Blog. From England, Lilly moved to Ohio, which has the same law regarding adverse possession as California. Neither Lilly’s moves to England and Ohio nor Claude’s move to California were driven by a desire to take advantage of those states’ protective law of acquisitive prescription.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

He was charged with (and later acquitted of) a felony under an Ohio law prohibiting the use of a computer to “disrupt” or “interrupt” police functions. Parody and satire also face threats from other legal actions, particularly tort actions over the appropriation of names or likenesses (called the right to publicity).

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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. The result is a horn of plenty for litigators.

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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 30, 2023

Abbott , involving a challenge to the use of nonmutual offensive collateral estoppel to hold that issues resolved in bellwether tort trials bind the defendant in later cases. There, a judge held that chemical giant du Pont was bound by legal determinations made in three trials involving the discharge of acid into the Ohio River.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Choice of Law The Eighth Circuit applied Mexican law to a suit against General Motors over a car crash in Mexico, while an Ohio state court applied South African law to invalidate a marriage. So, on this leap day, we thought we would leap into the new month by looking back at the old year.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 4, 2023

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 15, 2022

Without this extension of coverage, the workers might be left without such protection and be forced to rely on a long, expensive civil tort case to obtain a remedy for workplace injury or disease. In Goodyear Atomic Corp.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 19, 2022

Those earlier sources relied upon by sites like Mediaite could find themselves the subject of discovery if this now goes to litigation. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. Clanton would face some challenges in pursuing any litigation.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Ohio Federal Court Remanded Environmental Assessment for Additional Analysis of Hydraulic Fracturing Impacts in Wayne National Forest.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2021

The second “Count Five” is actually just a demand for punitive damages, rather than an actual separate tort. Ohio , the Supreme Court ruled in 1969 that even calling for violence is protected under the First Amendment unless there is a threat of “ imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.”.

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