SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 13, 2024
Horn went to federal court in New York, arguing that the company that sold Dixie X, Medical Marijuana, Inc. Because RICO authorizes lawsuits only for injury to business or property, the district court held, it does not extend to harm from a personal injury like being misled into purchasing an alternative health supplement.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 29, 2024
It concluded that because Horn’s lost earnings flow from a personal injury – his ingestion of THC – he had not suffered an injury “to business or property” for which he could recover under RICO. Harp-Horn, who had worked with her husband, then quit her job, because she believed it was not safe to work without him.
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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). A plaintiff need not show any injury from the violation – just the violation itself. General Liability Insurance.
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 11, 2023
NBCUniversal was denied as anticipated , which drew a separate opinion from Justice Clarence Thomas noting that he would be inclined to reconsider New York Times v. Yes, the statute really does have a full cite to the opinion in it. Kivett , and the New York state law in Cantero v. Nelson ,…517 U.S. 26 and Oct.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 30, 2022
Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102. Sherri Perper, 56, of Queens, New York has filed a personal injury lawsuit due to defective shoes allegedly acquired from Forum Novelties.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 31, 2021
Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102. Sherri Perper, 56, of Queens, New York has filed a personal injury lawsuit due to defective shoes allegedly acquired from Forum Novelties.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 31, 2023
Below is an expanded version of my column in the New York Post on the return of Halloween and joy of little litigators in anticipation of the return of the festival of Samhain. However, the scariest thing about Halloween for some may be the two-year statute of limitations that follows the holiday.
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