JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The law further states “The duty to notify a person or agency under this section is met if a person notifies or attempts to provide such notice by telephone or any other means as soon as reasonably possible.”. I am unaware of such a law in Pennsylvania, but these laws are rarely enforced. The charge was later dismissed.

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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

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

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

MAY 31, 2021

While the lower courts ruled for Harvard, the trial judge did note that there may have been bias in favor of minority admissions and encouraged Harvard to deal with such “implicit bias” while monitoring “any significant race-related statistical disparities in the rating process.” On tests, Asian kids shows a 74.4

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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.

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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.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 22, 2021

As Eugene Volokh correctly pointed out , the California Labor Code protects “political activities” employees and the California Supreme Court ruled in Gay Law Students Ass’n v. 1979) that “political activities” includes not just electioneering but also “espousal of … a cause.”. Veteran reporter Donald McNeil Jr.,

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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

There is a move in many states to refuse to allow such exemptions, but courts have pushed back. In New York, the state is appealing a preliminary injunction against its refusal to allow religious exemptions to its vaccine mandate. They also can refile if the lower court has not reached a decision by Oct.

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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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DECEMBER 31, 2022

In court papers, she was identified only as “L.C.”. Four years later, her case reached the Supreme Court. In a 6-3 opinion by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the court ruled in Olmstead v. Glucksberg , a case in which he helped persuade the court to unanimously uphold Washington’s ban on physician-assisted suicide.

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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. The case concerned Emmanuel Ayala, U.S.

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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

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

JULY 24, 2024

Below is my column in the New York Post on the ruling against Nina Jankowicz in her defamation case. It turns out the calling opposing views defamation is no better than calling them disinformation.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 25, 2021

Civil and statutory claims can be curtailed by constitutional limitations. 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. This is such a case in my view. In 2002, the U.S. In Ashcroft v.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 31, 2021

I was therefore gladdened by the Supreme Court ruling 8-1 in favor of the free speech in the case, even if it meant a victory for odious Westboro Church. The Court in cases like New York Times v. In New York Times v. It is not clear who will be suing as individuals or the group or both. Confidential.”

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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. I disagree.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

For example, New York and numerous other cities have declared themselves to be “sanctuaries” for undocumented immigrants yet, in recent months, have protested increasing transfers of such immigrants to their jurisdiction. In City of Richmond v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 3, 2021

New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Another potentially historic case is coming out of New York: New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Ten years ago, the Supreme Court handed down the landmark ruling in District of Columbia v. Oral argument is Dec. Just last week, D.C.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 17, 2020

New York Gov. The first “technical change” would be to rescind the law. Tam the Court ruled against the government’s use of the disparagement clause of the Lanham Act. C-Span Screenshot. As a long-standing free speech advocate, you must often defend speech that you find offensive. In Matal 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 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

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. Moderate efforts at gun control are often ramped up in the legislative process to become more and more sweeping.

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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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AUGUST 4, 2021

Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. On July 7, New York City filed its memorandum of law in support of its motion to remand. City of New York v. July 29, 2021); New York v.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

That was the concern that led the Supreme Court to curtail defamation actions. He is subject to the higher standard of proof 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

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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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.” Major loser, zero credibility!”

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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. 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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