SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The Farm Bureau and North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein ask the court to grant review and reverse the 4th Circuit’s decision. James King, then a college student, got into an altercation with plainclothes federal officers Todd Allen and Douglas Brownback because he says he thought they were criminals mugging him.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The law covers violent crimes, sexual assault, and assault of a child. The law requires that individuals “shall as soon as reasonably possible notify the prosecuting attorney, law enforcement, medical assistance, or other public officials.” We have seen criminal charges for videotaping crime scenes in other countries.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2021

Kevin Steele, the Montgomery County district attorney who convicted Cosby, issued a statement that was embarrassing in its evasion of responsibility. It must be done under common law, which is challenging. Under common law, Cosby could sued for malicious prosecution.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 18, 2021

District Attorney Andrew Womble said that Brown was shot at by three Pasquotank deputies who were justified in the use of lethal force “to protect themselves and others.” It appears that Brown did come into contact with officers with his car, though Brown appears to be trying to evade the officers who surrounded the car.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

The judge ruled Friday afternoon that the prior citizen’s arrest law requires that the arrest would have to occur right after any felony crime was committed. Bob Rubin, attorney for Travis McMichael, objected that “if you are going to instruct the jury as you say, you are directing a verdict for the state.”.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

IRS investigators Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler are suing attorney Abbe Lowell over public allegations of criminal conduct on their part. Lowell was hit with a $20 million defamation lawsuit that alleges “clear malice” in public allegations of criminally leaking grand jury material and other offenses.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

He testified that he carried a loaded gun that night and, during cross-examination, defense attorney Corey Chirafisi asked Grosskreutz, “It wasn’t until you pointed your gun at him, advanced on him … that he fired, right?” Grosskreutz responded, “Correct.”

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

However, he was then found guilty in a torts lawsuit brought by the Goldman family and ordered to pay $33.5 The risk of such torts actions is that they proceed under a lower standard of proof. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 17, 2023

For example, he raised the common tort of intrusion in his private affairs, but he may have effectively released that information into the public domain through his abandonment. He also raises the common law torts of disclosure of embarrassing private facts.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 27, 2024

Instead, it relied heavily on the investigation of New York Attorney General Latitia James who is an outspoken critic of Cuomo. They have given evidence in criminal investigations and spoken to state investigators. Later five additional criminal cases were dropped.

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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. For example, in Weirum v. He later confessed.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2021

On January 7th, an attorney representing President Donald Trump filed a one-page motion of withdrawal from a case filed shortly after the election. That is hardly remarkable with attorneys entering and leaving cases every day in federal court. He was one of the attorneys who stood his ground in defending his client.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 8, 2023

Torts has long struggled with the vicarious liability of promoters and celebrities for accidents. However, the use of criminal charges, in my view, is neither needed nor wise. Tort law and civil fines force such celebrities and companies to be accountable for the creation of dangerous or “tumultuous” circumstances.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 15, 2021

He argues that the court is allowed to take “judicial notice” of the agreement in light of the fact that it has been used previously in court, including the voluntary dismissal of her battery claims against Epstein’s former attorney, Alan Dershowitz in a parallel case. See Giuffre v. Dershowitz , No. 19-cv-03377-LAP (S.D.N.Y.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The DOJ report did not read like any post-shooting review I have read as a criminal defense attorney or law professor. Those concerns were heightened by the DOJ’s bizarre review and report, which stated the governing standards but then seemed to brush them aside to clear Byrd.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

The complaint includes eight claims that range from violations to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Federal Tort Claims Act, a Bivens claim, and Privacy Act. FIFTH CAUSE OF ACTION FEDERAL TORT CLAIMS ACT (Against Defendant United States of America). SIXTH CAUSE OF ACTION BIVENS CLAIM (Against All Individual Defendants).

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Trump reposted a supporter’s “fantasy” of executing a citizen’s arrest of Judge Arthur Engoron and New York Attorney General Letitia James. I have been critical of Attorney General James for this case and her running on a pledge to bag Trump if elected. I have also criticized this New York law.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2021

attorney Patrick Malone, who previously filed ethics complaints against lawyers representing the Trump campaign or the Republican party. The second “Count Five” is actually just a demand for punitive damages, rather than an actual separate tort. The 40-page lawsuit was written by D.C. Then nothing happened.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Notably, Biden has not brought a civil lawsuit for a privacy tort claim despite the bluster and bombast of these letters. Under the tort of “public disclosure of embarrassing private facts,” you can be sued for publishing even true statements that a reasonable person would find offensive.

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