InHouseOps

JULY 16, 2021

Illinois is not the only state that regulates biometrics, but it is the only state currently whose biometric statute includes a private right of action. A plaintiff need not show any injury from the violation – just the violation itself. Krishna Schaumburg Tan , 2020 IL App (1st) 191834, appeal allowed, 154 N.E.3d 3d 804 (Ill.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more.

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LegalReader

JUNE 17, 2025

Tort reform supporters didn’t like the idea either, saying it expanded the right to sue too far. Lawmakers tried to attach the bill to a different, more controversial measure dealing with personal injury lawsuits. She is also a member of Chi Sigma Iota and a 2020 recipient of the Donald D. What’s getting in the way?

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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). In 2020, the cancelation of parades and the reduction of travel has led to a very different legal profile of holiday mishaps and malfeasance.

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Tort Statute Criminal Law Court 38

JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more.

Tort 58

Tort Litigation Litigating Construction 58

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

Supreme Court held that the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it concluded that its review of the remand order in Baltimore’s climate change case against fossil fuel companies was limited to determining whether the defendants properly removed the case under the federal officer removal statute.

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