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Spooky Torts: The 2021 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. The Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom in Pennsylvania tells customers that, if they come to their Halloween Haunt, “ Fear is waiting for you.” See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102.

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Spooky Torts: The 2022 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. The Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom in Pennsylvania tells customers that, if they come to their Halloween Haunt, “ Fear is waiting for you.” See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102.

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Vaccine requirements, cancer claims, and circuit splits

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City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; a similar question was presented in 303 Creative LLC v. Monsanto had argued that FIFRA labeling provisions preempted state tort causes of action for failure to warn. Smith , which holds that laws of general applicability that burden religious exercise are not subject to strict scrutiny.

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Spooky Torts: The 2023 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. even when accompanied by buckets of fake blood. __ The Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom in Pennsylvania tells customers that, if they come to their Halloween Haunt, “ Fear is waiting for you.”

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TURKEY TORTS (2020)

JonathanTurley

Michael Hobbins was shot after being mistaken for a wild turkey by a fellow hunter in Union County, Pennsylvania in 2010. Thanksgiving means one thing for personal injury lawyers: food poisoning. The Dennis case shows why a good lawyer requires relatives to sign waiver forms before the start of any holiday. LEXIS 11 (2001).

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Preemption, Bivens, conflicts of interest, and free exercise

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Pennsylvania , 20-7805 , like outgoing Coonce v. The district court dismissed the claims against Egbert, noting that causes of action under Bivens v. But a panel of the 9th Circuit reversed, holding that Bivens actions are available for such claims against Border Patrol officers. Pennsylvania , 20-7805.

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Sandra Day O’Connor, first woman on the Supreme Court, dies at 93

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Encountering barriers as a young female lawyer In September 1946, then 16-year-old Sandra Day enrolled at Stanford. She stayed there until 1954, when she moved to Germany with her husband, who served as an Army lawyer. In Germany, O’Connor worked as a civilian lawyer for the Army Quartermaster Corps.

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