JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Below is my column in The Hill on what is shaping up to be a major Supreme Court term on the issues of parody and satire under the First Amendment. The Court could reframe the constitutional limits for criminal and civil liability in two cases currently on the docket, including one recently granted review. VIP Products LLC.

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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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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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Constitutional Law Reporter

JANUARY 26, 2023

Supreme Court returned to the bench this week to begin their February session. In the most high-profile case of the week, the Court addressed the scope of the attorney-client privilege when an attorney provides both legal and non-legal advice. The justices heard oral arguments in four cases, two of which involved labor disputes.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 8, 2022

On February 8, 2022, the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic gave its final approval to the proposed constitutional law A.C.3156-B 3156-B providing environmental protection amendments to Articles 9 and 41 of the Italian Constitution. By Riccardo Luporini, Matteo Fermeglia, and Maria Antonia Tigre. 179/2019 ).

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2021

Bill Cosby is a free man after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned the conviction that sent him to jail roughly three years ago to serve 3-10 years for sexual assault. He proceeded to incriminate himself in what the Court said was a bait-and-switch. The court yielded to prosecutorial demands that were facially unconstitutional.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 25, 2021

Programme: 29 January 2021 @ 4-6 PM (CET): Limiting European Integration Through Constitutional Law? Recent Decisions of the German Bundesverfassungsgericht and their Impact on Private International Law. 9 April 2021 @ 4-6 PM (CET): Law Governing Arbitration Agreements in a Recent Judgment of the UK Supreme Court.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 9, 2023

In a nutshell, according to the Italian Constitutional Court, the fundamental human rights cannot be automatically and unconditionally sacrificed in each and every case in order to uphold the jurisdiction immunity of a foreign State allegedly responsible for serious international crimes. It is supposed to take place on May 23, 2023.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 28, 2021

Indeed, he would likely be protected from tort liability. On the rule itself, the Court wrote: Lastly, it is urged that Bigan failed to take the necessary steps to rescue Yania from the water. Cf: Restatement, Torts, § 322. The language of this Court in Brown v. Bigan , 397 Pa. 316, 155 A.2d French, 104 Pa.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

I also teach critical race theory, alongside other legal theories to my first-year torts students. Those efforts received a boost recently from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, which rejected the free speech claims of North Carolina State University Professor Stephen Porter. The decision in Porter v.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 23, 2021

The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. The Court sought to create “breathing space” for the media by articulating that standard that now applies to both public officials and public figures.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The use of the headdress could be treated by a court as opinion since many denounce such images as cultural appropriation. What constitutes racist imagery is a matter of public debate and Phillips can argue that this is obviously just his opinion. In 1967, the Supreme Court handed down Time, Inc. In New York Times v.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 12, 2021

The highlight of the package, though, is a new law allowing people harmed by firearms to sue the manufacturers. Not only does that law face serious constitutional challenges but similar lawsuits brought on similar grounds have failed miserably in the courts. Either way, it is not the law being pitched to the public.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In its earlier summary judgment ruling , the court began with a discussion of the highly analogous case of Pickering v. In that case, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of public high school teacher Marvin Pickering, who wrote a letter to the local newspaper criticizing a school board’s allocation of funding for athletic programs.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 15, 2024

The book explores the approach of English courts to jurisdictional issues in foreign direct liability (FDL) claims brought against English-based parent companies and their foreign subsidiaries as co-defendants. Chapter 4 examines the capacity and challenges faced by English courts in adjudicating foreign direct liability (FDL) claims.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 6, 2021

Below is my column in The Hill on the Supreme Court’s rejection of the case of a former West Point cadet who was barred from suing over the handling of her alleged rape. The case would have allowed a reconsideration of the Feres Doctrine, one of the most damaging and pernicious doctrines ever created by the Supreme Court.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JUNE 17, 2022

Supreme Court held that the authority of a court to imply a cause of action under Bivens v. While the Court did not overrule Bivens , it did emphasize that recognizing a Bivens cause of action is “a disfavored judicial activity.”. The District Court declined to extend Bivens as re- quested, but the Court of Appeals reversed.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

at least in court. Peanut even appeared in my torts class this term, posthumously, of course. Nora Constance Marino told Fox “[i]t appears as though there were multiple constitutional law violations here — or at the very least, there are many questions as to why the government chose the actions that they chose.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JANUARY 31, 2022

The central issue before the Court in both cases is whether the vaccine mandates should be allowed to move forward while the legal challenges work their way through the lower courts. This past week, the Court heard oral arguments in four cases. Below is a brief summary of the issues before the Court: Gallardo v.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 1, 2024

The court has already imposed a fine, but according to some reports, jail time is possible. 46 (1988), the Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s judgment for intentional infliction of emotional distress against Hustler for a parody of Jerry Falwell, the founder of the Moral Majority and Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

1952), the court considered a “Ladies Home Journal” article that was highly critical of couples who claimed to be cases of “love at first sight.” In 1967, the Supreme Court handed down Time, Inc. This line is equally difficult under the tort’s standard for the commercial appropriation of use or likeness. Curtis Publ’g Co.,

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 7, 2021

Meghan just won a case against Associated Newspapers and the ruling by London High Court Judge Mark Warby should be a concern for anyone who values the freedom of the press. Moreover, our tort for the public disclosure of embarrassing private facts has an exclusion for “newsworthy” stories. F-R Publishing Corp.,

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2021

The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. The Court sought to create “breathing space” for the media by articulating that standard that now applies to both public officials and public figures.

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LawTechnologyToday

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Mark practices in State and Federal Court representing injury victims throughout Wisconsin. He has found considerable success as a rising star in the Arizona legal industry and had the opportunity to argue before the Supreme Court on three different occasions. You can learn more on The Entrekin Law Firm’s personal injury page.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 15, 2022

Share Under established constitutional law, states may generally not tax or regulate property or operations of the federal government. A 1936 federal law waives federal immunity from state workers’ compensation laws on federal land and projects. This principle is known as intergovernmental immunity. Washington.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 2, 2022

In its earlier ruling against the Times, the court put the theory of the case succinctly in its leading line: “Gov. Some jurors learned that Rakoff had already determined that, in his view, Palin did not meet the standard set by the Supreme Court for public figures. The editorial was grossly unfair.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 31, 2021

As someone who has taught defamation torts for thirty years, the Trump Administration has been a bonanza of such cases and controversies. I regularly criticized Donald Trump for his calls to change defamation laws. The Court in cases like New York Times v. It is not clear who will be suing as individuals or the group or both.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 27, 2021

The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. The Court sought to create “breathing space” for the media by articulating that standard that now applies to both public officials and public figures.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 19, 2023

Many of us who teach in the areas of tort and constitutional law were uneasy over the impact of a verdict in light of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in New York Times v. Fox was recently hit by damaging rulings by Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis in clearing the path for the lawsuit.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In its earlier ruling against the Times, the court put the theory of the case succinctly in its leading line: “Gov. Some jurors learned that Rakoff had already determined that, in his view, Palin did not meet the standard set by the Supreme Court for public figures. The editorial was grossly unfair.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 23, 2023

Baldwin’s channeling of Trumpy arguments in court has proven equally successful. As expected, a court has ruled for Baldwin after finding that the sister of the fallen Marine was a limited public figure. I’m just going to say, ‘See you in court.’” million followers” amounts to defamation…. [T]he ’”

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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. This is such a case in my view. In 2002, the U.S. In Ashcroft v. In New York Times v.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 14, 2022

Sullivan, the Supreme Court held that the first amendment requires breathing space for free speech in criticizing public officials. The irony is that the higher standard for public figures was imposed by the Supreme Court because celebrities are viewed as inherently powerful figures in our society. In New York Times v.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 7, 2022

Former President Donald Trump achieved mixed results in courts this week. The court then found that the filing could not maintain a group libel theory. We have previously discussed this tort theory. Lait (1952), a New York federal district court addressed a defamation claim arising from the publication of the book “U.S.A.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Florida Southern District Court. 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. Portville Cent.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 24, 2022

The Supreme Court has held that “public figure” status applies when someone “thrust[s] himself into the vortex of [the] public issue [and] engage[s] the public’s attention in an attempt to influence its outcome.” I’m just going to say, ‘See you in court.'”

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

The court’s curious handling of the case backfired. That issue would have to be decided by the Supreme Court however given the prior ruling in New York Times v. Rakoff was previously reversed by the federal court of appeals for dismissing the action. Here is the column: In a trial in New York, federal judge Jed S.

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