JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Yesterday, I co-taught my torts class with leading authority Luna Turley, Professor of Animal Welfare (PAW). Professor Luna with her evening class. Professor Luna has spent her life working on animal liability questions and taught both my day and evening classes on the common law rules governing dogs and other animals.

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Day on Torts

JULY 26, 2022

Plaintiffs next attempted to rely on a case from Washington to support the assertion that defendant’s distribution of the photos was outrageous. This case is an important read for anyone litigating a tort case involving a matter of public concern. Summary judgment was therefore affirmed.

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The Crime Report

JULY 7, 2022

Covering wage and hour claims is novel among state NDA restrictions and the language about public policy mandates appears to be aimed at a tort claim that’s available for wrongful termination under Washington law.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 11, 2023

To recap briefly, this case concerns whether the Washington Supreme Court properly dismissed a tort action by Glacier Northwest, a concrete mixing company, arising out of a strike by the Teamsters. Chief Justice John Roberts offered a hypothetical to test this distinction.

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The Crime Report

MAY 10, 2021

When the second officer responded to the family’s 911 call and recognized the man as a fellow off-duty officer, instead of arresting him, he simply drove him home, reports the Washington Post. Teets was arrested and charged with criminal mischief and disorderly conduct last year.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Int’l Brotherhood of Teamsters the court is asked to determine whether the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) preempts a state tort claim against the Teamsters for intentionally destroying an employer’s property during the course of a strike against the employer. Glacier brought a tort claim against the Teamsters for the loss of concrete.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The nation’s three major drug distributors and Johnson & Johnson have agreed to settle opioid claims for up to $665 million with Native American tribes who have claimed they were harmed by decades of exposure to highly addictive painkillers, reports the Washington Post. .

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 1, 2022

citizen who owns and runs the Smuggler’s Inn, a bed-and-breakfast abutting the Canadian border in Blaine, Washington. Blaine, Washington (Arkyan via Wikipedia). Boule told Egbert of a guest who had flown from Turkey to New York the previous day and was flying to Washington and driving to the inn. Robert Boule is a U.S.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 27, 2022

For the sake of civilian safety, police must intervene if they see misconduct by colleagues,, according to a forthcoming paper in the George Washington Law Review. Kaufman, who is also a Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Washington University in St.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The Federal Tort Claims Act is a 1946 law that allows private individuals to sue the United States for the negligent or wrongful acts of federal employees. In an appropriate future case,” Sotomayor concluded, “this Court should decide this issue.” The justices will meet again for another private conference on Friday, Nov.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 19, 2021

For example, Washington state allows for the charging of a misdemeanor. We also discussed a torts case involving a delay in calling police, but that case involved people who were deemed partially responsible for a death. In torts, there is no duty to rescue rule. Cf: Restatement, Torts, § 322. French, 104 Pa.

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LawSites

JANUARY 11, 2023

Rabinowitz is a lawyer who practiced as an associate in Sidley LLP’s Supreme Court & Appellate and Mass Tort Litigation groups. Department of Justice; general counsel to a Washington, D.C. Later, he served as a trial attorney for the U.S.

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

California, Michigan, North Carolina and Washington, D.C., It is a realistic prediction that we’ll live in a world where thousands of estate planning lawyers work for Fidelity, and hedge funds run the most significant plaintiff tort outfits. have task forces up and running, exploring revisions to Rule 5.4. Seems Like the Status Quo.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 8, 2022

There is an interesting case this week involving an adjunct professor at George Washington Law School, where I teach. Her claims were dismissed by Judge Trevoer McFadden who found that they were foreclosed by worker’s compensation as well as failing to state a claim on various torts. George Washington Univ.,

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

I also teach critical race theory, alongside other legal theories to my first-year torts students. Take the “indigenous land acknowledgment” created for faculty at the University of Washington. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School. He was told to remove his optional statement.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

It evolved into a common-law tort to address a broader range of “interests of the community at large—interests that were recognized as rights of the general public entitled to protection,” in the words of the American Law Institute’s Second Restatement of Torts (1965-79).

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 29, 2024

Before I flew back to Washington, I had one adventure remaining. You need to bring sunglasses to avoid snow blindness and a good pair of gloves (I purchased a pair from the outfitter that I can use if Washington is it is ever plunged into a polar vortex). I love Washington and living on the East coast.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Ferguson involves a First Amendment challenge to Washington state’s law prohibiting “conversion therapy,” the practice of seeking to change a gay or transgender person’s sexual orientation or gender identity through counseling. King sued them under the Federal Tort Claims Act and under Bivens v. ” (relisted after the Sept.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Usoyan raises a question under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act in a case following a violent clash outside the Turkish ambassador’s residence in Washington, D.C, Among its arguments in its petition , Turkey suggests that other countries might reciprocally abrogate sovereign immunity for American security forces facing tort claims abroad.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 23, 2018

There are eight other climate change tort cases pending: six alleging nuisance and a variety of other state common law violations in California courts, one claiming state public nuisance along with other state common law and statutory violations in Colorado, and one claiming state public nuisance and trespass in Washington.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 6, 2023

Glacier asked a Washington state court to make the Teamsters pay for damage that happened when cement hardened after the strike began. The Washington Supreme Court dismissed the case, finding that it wasn’t appropriate to apply state tort law to a labor dispute covered by a federal law, the National Labor Relations Act.

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LawSites

JULY 7, 2022

Rabinowitz is a lawyer who practiced as an associate in Sidley LLP’s Supreme Court & Appellate and Mass Tort Litigation groups. Department of Justice; the general counsel to a Washington, D.C. Later, he served as a trial attorney for the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Sandmann previously settled with the Washington Post and CNN. A team of lawyers have filed a $250 million defamation suit against the Washington Post, on behalf of Nick Sandmann and his family. He has now settled his $275 million defamation lawsuit against NBC.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 18, 2022

In 2017, Carter learned that union representatives, including its president, Audrey Stone , attended the Women’s March in Washington, D.C. However, she was still required to pay dues to the union despite religious objections to its policies. She went to social media to criticize the attendance and funding from Planned Parenthood.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 25, 2022

Depp must show that Heard’s 2018 Washington Post op-ed , alleging that she was a victim of abuse, defamed him to the tune of $50 million. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. For the record, this is supposed to be a defamation case. Give nothing back.”.

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Broadcast Law Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Rachel Wolkowitz (see her bio here ), one of the attorneys following these issues for our law firm Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP in Washington, DC, offers these broad observations on how drones can be used for newsgathering under current FAA rules, and offers some cautions for both current and future use.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

It was a bathroom break that inspired Bradley Neal , a 3L at The George Washington University Law School , to develop a product that uses generative AI to help law students better understand and brief cases. Returning to class after a visit to the bathroom, he had lost the thread of the case the professor was discussing.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The court also took action in a pair of recently relisted cases involving the lawfulness of a Washington state electoral district. The 4th Circuit’s reasoning, he said, “is a virus that may spread if not promptly eliminated.” The court denied Trevino v. Palmer without comment.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 9, 2021

In her presentation, she focused on tort law. Finally, the organizers were able to secure Anita Ramasastry , University of Washington, Member of the U.N. Inequality could be countered by adequate compensation of the injured parties by the damaging parties. Working Group on Business and Human Rights, as keynote speaker.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 12, 2021

Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. The question is whether New York officials will keep this renewed pledge to litigate the law all the way to the Supreme Court. There are at least three justices who likely are eager to see them fulfill that pledge.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The appellate court also agreed with the court below that it was not appropriate to recognize a new tort of “intentional investment in abnormally dangerous activities” advocated by the plaintiffs on behalf of future generations. Business Groups Said Washington Greenhouse Gas Regulations Exceeded Statutory Authority, Violated State Laws.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JUNE 17, 2022

Respondent Robert Boule owns a bed-and-breakfast—the Smuggler’s Inn—in Blaine, Washington. Boule filed a grievance with Agent Egbert’s supervisors and an ad- ministrative claim with Border Patrol pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA). Facts of the Case.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

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). Past tort cases generally have favored celebrities and resulted in rulings like White v. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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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. She also threatened another woman with a carving knife.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 30, 2021

In the prior column , I noted that under tort law a dog is afforded (at most) “one free bite” before strict liability applies. ” The “one free bite rule” is a commonly misunderstood torts doctrine — suggesting that you are not subject to strict liability until after the first time your dog bites someone.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 6, 2021

I have been a vocal critic of Feres for decades and wrote a three-part study of the military legal system 20 years ago that detailed how this doctrine began in 1950 with a clearly erroneous reading of the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA). Tort liability does not simply make victims whole but encourages others to take precautions.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Brownback , 22-912 Issue : Whether the Federal Tort Claims Act’s judgment bar, which this court has repeatedly said functions in much the same way as the common-law doctrine of res judicata, nevertheless operates to bar claims brought together in the same action. ” (relisted after the Sept. 13 conferences) King v.

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