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. She also threatened another woman with a carving knife.

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Tort Statute Court Criminal Law 33

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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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. Bowman , which addresses the scope of federal criminal statutes, into its current extraterritoriality framework.

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Laws Court Divorce Tort 72

SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 15, 2022

Congress passed the law after the Supreme Court held that states could not apply workers’ compensation statutes to federal facilities. 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.

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Contract Government Statute Construction 87

SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 28, 2021

The petition for review was filed by Peyman Pakdel and Sima Chegini, a married couple from Ohio who in 2009 bought an interest in a six-unit apartment building in San Francisco’s Russian Hill neighborhood. corporations can be sued for violations of the Alien Tort Statute, the law on which the Iraqi plaintiffs were relying, at all.

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Immigration Court Government Education 94

JonathanTurley

JANUARY 19, 2022

The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. 1 (1990), an Ohio high school wrestling coach sued over an opinion column alleging that he had lied under oath at a public hearing, saying that it was tantamount to an allegation of perjury.

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Laws Tort Court Diligence 33

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

In Minnesota, the district court granted the State of Minnesota’s motion to remand its case, which asserts state law claims under common law and consumer protection statutes. s consumer protection statute. On March 26, 2021, the court denied Exxon’s emergency motion for a temporary stay of the remand order. 17-cv-1208 (D.D.C.

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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. COUNT FOUR (Violation of a Public Safety Statute: D.C. COUNT FIVE (Violation of a Public Safety Statute: D.C. .” The first five counts are: COUNT ONE (Directing Assault and Battery). In Brandenburg v.

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