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"Whoever or Whatever Drafted the Briefs Signed and Filed by Blackburn,"

The Volokh Conspiracy

Youngblood is represented by Attorney Tyrone A. Only Youngblood, through attorney Blackburn, submitted a brief replete with non-existent quotations and repeated misrepresentations of actual case law. In other words, when accused of a serious ethical violation, attorney Blackburn chose to double down. "As Blackwell v.

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Opioid maker Purdue’s bankruptcy case comes before Supreme Court

SCOTUSBlog

At the same time, the dispute also raises broader questions about whether and when it is appropriate to resolve mass tort cases – that is, lawsuits brought by a group of people who have been harmed in a similar way, such as in a plane crash or by a defective product – through the bankruptcy system. And in Sept.

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Missouri man appeals death sentence after attorneys failed to press jury foreman’s bias

SCOTUSBlog

The night after the jurys verdict, Shockleys attorney learned that the jury foreman had written a fictionalized autobiography in which he, as the main character, murdered the drunk driver who had killed his wife to get revenge after the driver only received probation. The request for a new trial was denied.

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Spooky Torts: The 2022 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. Again, the court agreed.

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Spooky Torts: The 2021 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. A tort action for intentional infliction of emotional distress is likely to fail. Well, give it enough time and someone will prove you wrong.

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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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TURKEY TORTS (2020)

JonathanTurley

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. Some 1,800 ate the catered meal.

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