SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Brownback , involving whether the Federal Tort Claims Act’s “judgment bar,” which bars any claim based on the same subject matter as a dismissed FTCA case, applies when both the actions were originally brought together. The Supreme Court did not grant review in any new cases since our last installment.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The New York Times lost a critical effort to block the defamation lawsuit brought by University of Alabama basketball player Kai Spears. The Times ran an article “A Fourth Alabama Player Was at a Deadly Shooting, in a Car Hit by Bullets.” Spears declined to make any comment at the time.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 4, 2023

” The 13 states expressly named are thirteen states: Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Oklahoma. Georgia is also named for its severe limitation on abortion rights. .” cases, including in his concurring opinion in Sosa v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 23, 2025

That brings us to this weeks one new relist: Alabama v. Alabama and the other states have asked the Supreme Court to allow them to file a bill of complaint seeking to halt those suits, arguing that they violate the horizontal separation of powers by seeking to regulate activity beyond the defendant states borders. California.

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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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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The case involved a March 23, 1963 edition of The Saturday Evening Post alleging that former University of Georgia football coach Wallace Butts conspired with University of Alabama coach Paul “Bear” Bryant to fix a 1962 football game in Alabama’s favor.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 27, 2020

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 New York Times had run an advertisement referring to abuses of civil rights marchers and the arrest of Martin Luther King Jr. seven times.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Alabama Federal Court Dismissed Challenge to TVA Environmental Review of Rate Changes for Distributed Energy. The court noted that the NMFS had reinitiated consultation and was reviewing new information that had become available since 2013. Oceana, Inc. Ross , No. 1:12-cv-00041 (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. Mike Lee instead of Alabama Sen. There are actually six “counts” listed but there are two count fives in the complaint. The first five counts are: COUNT ONE (Directing Assault and Battery).

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