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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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A quest to reclaim a Pissarro masterpiece hinges on the Erie doctrine

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It eventually travelled to New York and then to Saint Louis, Missouri, where it remained until 1976. Second, the brief draws an analogy to the Federal Tort Claims Act, which subjects the federal government to certain tort claims “in the same manner and to the same extent as a private individual.” In Richards v.

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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. See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102.

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Deadspin Defamation: Parents of Holden Armenta Move Toward Libel Action Over Blackface Allegation

JonathanTurley

There are 33 states with retraction statutes. Missouri does not appear to have a formal retraction law, but it is still considered a necessary step. .” These retraction letters are often the open salvo in defamation actions. The letter notifies Carron J. Phillips, Deadspin, G/O Media, and Great Hill Partners.

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Cassirer on Remand: Considering the Laws of Other Interested States

Conflict of Laws

After it was taken in Germany, the painting spent some time in California and Missouri and was subsequently sold to Baron Von Thyssen-Bornemisza by a Gallery in New York. But statutes of limitations often begin to run when the original owner discovers the location of the stolen property.

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Justices Hear Oral Arguments in Four Cases

Constitutional Law Reporter

Missouri , involves a federal rule requiring all health care workers at facilities that participate in Medicare and Medicaid programs to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 unless they are eligible for a medical or religious exemption. The first, Biden v. 1252(f)(1), the courts below had jurisdiction to grant classwide injunctive relief.”.

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Spooky Torts: Tykes and Trial Lawyers Gather for All Hallow’s Eve

JonathanTurley

The result is a wicked brew of negligence, product defects, intentional torts, and every other tort and crime known above the netherworld. So without further ado, here are this year’s spookiest of torts. Both Kelly and Rando sued for torts ranging from assault to intentional infliction of emotional distress.

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