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Spooky Torts: The 2023 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. In another June 2023 decision in Munoz v.

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Project Veritas Wins Victory Against New York Times In Defamation Action

JonathanTurley

Sullivan, sued for defamation and won under Alabama law. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. The cost of the changing view of journalism may not only be in the loss of core trust but of core legal protections.

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Trump Sues CNN for $475 Million in Defamation Lawsuit

JonathanTurley

It is not exactly the context that counsel would want when seeking to hold CNN liable for defamatory comments in a difficult legal action. In a 5-4 decision, Chief Justice Warren wrote a concurrence that extended the ruling in New York Times v. The Court ruled in favor of Butts, and The Saturday Evening Post was ordered to pay $3.06

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Trumpunity: Sunstein Calls For Broader Use Of Defamation Lawsuit To Curtail “Fake News”

JonathanTurley

Sullivan, sued for defamation and won under Alabama law. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. However, there are many such controversies with a mixed of legal, political, and technical elements. seven times.

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Trump’s Liability Or Opportunity? Two Capitol Police Officers Sue Trump Over Capitol Riot

JonathanTurley

Eric Swalwell against former President Donald Trump as a serious miscalculation that could result in a legal vindication for Trump either on the trial or appellate levels. In my view, the lawsuit contravenes free speech as well as controlling case law from the Supreme Court. Mike Lee instead of Alabama Sen. In Brandenburg v.