Constitutional Law Court Rules Tort 
Constitutional Law Reporter
MARCH 9, 2021
S. _ (2021), the Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Tort Claims Act barred college student James King’s claims of police brutality. The Court unanimously held that the district court’s dismissal of King’s claims under the FTCA triggered the “judgment bar” in 28 U.S.C. In Brownback v.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 19, 2021
We also discussed a torts case involving a delay in calling police, but that case involved people who were deemed partially responsible for a death. In 2009, the New York courts ruled that Metro workers were not legally required to assist a woman being raped at a station. In torts, there is no duty to rescue rule.
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Constitutional Law Reporter
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
The District Court ruled that all class members had Article III standing on each of the three statutory claims. Justice Kavanaugh wrote: Under longstanding American law, a person is injured when a defamatory statement “that would subject him to hatred, contempt, or ridicule” is published to a third party.
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.
JonathanTurley
APRIL 23, 2021
Sullivan’s lawsuit was one of a number of civil actions brought under state laws that targeted Northern media covering the violence against freedom marchers. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press.
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
In its earlier summary judgment ruling , the court began with a discussion of the highly analogous case of Pickering v. 205 , 391 U.S. 563, 574 (1968).
JonathanTurley
MARCH 7, 2021
Moreover, our tort for the public disclosure of embarrassing private facts has an exclusion for “newsworthy” stories. The exception is so broad that many have complained that it has “swallowed the tort.” ” For example, in Sidis v. F-R Publishing Corp., 2d 806, 807 (2d Cir.
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