JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Generally there is no duty to rescue or to call police under the common law. The law covers violent crimes, sexual assault, and assault of a child. I am unaware of such a law in Pennsylvania, but these laws are rarely enforced. In torts, there is no duty to rescue rule.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 22, 2021

University of San Diego Law Professor Thomas Smith has been put under investigation for the use of an offensive term in a column criticizing the Chinese government and its role in the pandemic. A core value of the University of San Diego School of Law is that all members of the community must be treated with dignity and respect.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Cities, too, are enforcing misgendering rules; for example, the New York City Human Rights Law allows for fines if employers, landlords or professionals fail to use a preferred name, pronoun or title. Yet some people have religious beliefs against following the new order and using such pronouns.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 4, 2022

New York has long been the source of major litigation over gun control. That includes the possible loss before the Supreme Court in a pending major gun rights case. Now, New York has moved to ban anyone under age 21 from buying or possessing a semi-automatic rifle in response to the recent shootings at a supermarket in Buffalo.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 23, 2021

The standard for defamation for public figures and officials in the United States is the product of a decision over 50 years ago in New York Times v. 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. seven times.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 31, 2021

Some have called for the change to increase diversity in the schools, particularly after California voters refused to change the long ban on affirmative action in education under state law. Here is the column: The Supreme Court will decide early next month whether to take a new case on the use of race in college admissions.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 2, 2023

Since the 1970s, the Supreme Court has ruled that race could not be a determinative or major factor in admissions. Bakke, the Court ruled against affirmative action. The latest was State University of New York (SUNY) system Chancellor John B. In Regents of the University of California v.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Free speech has always held a precarious position in Australia which does not have an equivalent to the First Amendment in guaranteeing free speech as a constitutional right. Despite this history, a new decision out of the High Court is still shocking in its implications for further attacks on free speech. Craigslist, Inc. ,

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Below is my column in the Hill on the makings of a blockbuster case in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. Bruen, the first major gun rights case before the Supreme Court in ten years. The court will soon take up New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. Penal Law § 400.00(2)(f)

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2021

While it has received little coverage in the mainstream media, the conservative group Project Veritas won a major victory against the New York Times this week in a defamation case with potentially wide reach. Notably, this follows another significant loss by the New York Times to Sarah Palin last year. seven times.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 23, 2024

The founder of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice fought to criminalize the mailing of any obscene work, a broadly define category that included protected political speech. In a 2002 ruling, the U.S. It appears that Anthony Comstock is having something of a revival in Oklahoma. In Ashcroft v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The problem is that the courts already recognize some religious exemption arguments. Those arguments are based on both the constitutional protection of religious values but also laws like Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. There is a move in many states to refuse to allow such exemptions, but courts have pushed back.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 7, 2022

I previously wrote about the latest New York gun law passed after the Court’s ruling in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. New York Democratic Gov. Once again, it is baffling why New York voters continue to enable this type of leadership. Hochul , No.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 9, 2021

There is an interesting First Amendment case brewing in New York after an appellate ruled that a mother identified as Christie could lose custody of her daughter unless she removes a rock with a small confederate flag image on it in the driveway.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

From legendary lawyers to lesser-known activists, journalists, and plaintiffs, the following individuals who died in 2022 all shaped the court and the law in their own ways. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , David Beckwith published the original Supreme Court abortion leak. In court papers, she was identified only as “L.C.”.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

I have previously written about how New York has proven time and time again as the gift that keeps on giving for the National Rifle Association (NRA) and gun-rights groups. New York Democrats continue to pass laws that are virtually guaranteed to be struck down and further reinforce Second Amendment rights.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 14, 2024

District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle has ruled that the federal law prohibiting people from possessing firearms inside post offices is unconstitutional. The ruling is based on 2022 Supreme Court ruling New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. In Florida, U.S. That is all.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 26, 2024

Below is my column in the New York Post on yesterday’s oral arguments on presidential immunity. As expected, with the exception of the three liberal justices, the Court appears to be struggling to find a more nuanced approach that would avoid the extreme positions of both parties. Fitzgerald. Yet in 1974’s United States v.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 25, 2021

Supreme Court ruled against a provision of federal law that banned computer simulations and virtual pornography under the first amendment. In New York Times v. 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

JANUARY 31, 2021

I regularly criticized Donald Trump for his calls to change defamation laws. On the opposing side, figures like MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough raised equally poor understandings of defamation law i n considering lawsuits against Trump. The Court in cases like New York Times v. to Roy Moore to Joy Reid.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 24, 2024

Below is my column in the New York Post on the ruling against Nina Jankowicz in her defamation case. Jonathan Turley is a Fox News Media contributor and the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University. He is the author of “ The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Notably, California’s law expressly states that this money should not be treated as compensation for federal reparations. 469 (1989), the Supreme Court struck down a set-aside for minority businesses due to a lack of evidence of specific injuries. As these numbers rise, so do the calls for payments in both politics and the media.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

There is an interesting ruling this week out of New York where a federal court has ruled in favor of a conservative student group alleging that the State University of New York at Binghamton has engaged in a pattern of censorship of conservative speakers and events. Lawrence Khan, a U.S. I disagree.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 17, 2020

New York Gov. The first “technical change” would be to rescind the law. Notably, the law only allows for the sale or displays if they serve “an educational or historical purpose.” Tam the Court ruled against the government’s use of the disparagement clause of the Lanham Act.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 3, 2021

While the media and politicians were decrying the recent Texas abortion law and misrepresenting the Court’s order in that case , the real and immediate threat to Roe v. Dobbs involves a challenge to a 2018 Mississippi law that banned most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2022

After Dobbs was accepted, advocates sought to enjoin a Texas law that banned abortion after just six weeks. The court ruled 5-4 to allow the Texas law to be enforced. The court — as expected — allowed the appeal to go forward for some of the litigants in the lower court but again refused to enjoin the law.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 29, 2023

The decision comes after two other district courts ruled in favor of the law — sending this issue to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and potentially the Supreme Court. Law enforcement and prosecutors should take their obligations to enforce these laws seriously.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 27, 2021

The Project recently won a significant victory in defeating such a motion from the New York Times. The standard for defamation for public figures and officials in the United States is the product of a decision decades ago in New York Times v. Project Veritas has been accused of misleading edits or accounts.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 24, 2024

Here is the column: In 1976, Saul Steinburg’s hilarious “View of the World from 9th Avenue” was published on the cover of the New Yorker. The map showed Manhattan occupying most of the known world with wilderness on the other side of the Hudson River between New York and San Francisco. In Gonzalez v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 15, 2022

.” Ironically, it was the only part of the president’s remarks that is consistent with what the court actually said in its decision in Dobbs v. Wade, the court ruled that millions of citizens, not nine justices, must now decide the question of abortion. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. In overturning Roe v.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

One of the leading cases occurred in 1952 in a New York lawsuit. Previously, MSNBC legal analyst and Michigan Law Professor Barbara McQuade told MSNBC viewers that Trump could be charged with manslaughter for his role in the January 6 Capitol riot. The Court in cases like New York Times v. Confidential.”

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

” The lawsuit is novel and would create new law, if successful. The complaint alleges that the defendants sought to “obstruct a constitutional proceeding by intimidating and retaliating against a key witness.” The question is whether that is political speech or an actual violation of federal law.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 2, 2024

Below is my column in the New York Post on the Supreme Court’s historic presidential immunity decision. Yet, the reaction to the Court’s decision has been baffling from academics who did not raise a whimper of opposition when President Barack Obama killed an American citizen without a trial or a charge.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 23, 2021

A new lawsuit by the Chinese American Civil Rights Coalition has garnered national attention in the media where former President Donald Trump is being sued for his use of such terms as the “Chinese Virus,” “China Virus,” “Wuhan Flu,” and “ Kung Flu.”

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 3, 2022

In the past, politicians in cities like New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C., Moreover, the earlier ban was imposed in 1994 — before the Supreme Court ruled in District of Columbia v. There is room for rational reforms, ranging from better funding of mental illness treatment to “red flag” laws.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 18, 2023

In the past, politicians in cities like New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C., Moreover, the earlier ban was imposed in 1994 — before the Supreme Court ruled in District of Columbia v. have proven to be the gun lobby’s greatest asset. Heller that the right to bear arms is an individual right.

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