Constitutional Law Legal Tort Washington 
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 19, 2021
Generally there is no duty to rescue or to call police under the common law. For example, Washington state allows for the charging of a misdemeanor. The law covers violent crimes, sexual assault, and assault of a child. In torts, there is no duty to rescue rule. Cf: Restatement, Torts, § 322. French, 104 Pa.
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
In 2022, the American Bar Association required law schools to “provide education to law students on bias, cross-cultural competency, and racism: (1) at the start of the program of legal education, and (2) at least once again before graduation.” I have long incorporated race issues in my classes. Jonathan Turley is the J.B.
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LawSites
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
It was a bathroom break that inspired Bradley Neal , a 3L at The George Washington University Law School , to develop a product that uses generative AI to help law students better understand and brief cases. Gunnerbot is essentially the fully developed version of the quick query Neal did back in that law school class.
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
It was a tour-de-force on the value of satire to make profound legal and political points. Parody and satire also face threats from other legal actions, particularly tort actions over the appropriation of names or likenesses (called the right to publicity). Image from Supreme Court Petition.
JonathanTurley
MAY 6, 2021
I have been a vocal critic of Feres for decades and wrote a three-part study of the military legal system 20 years ago that detailed how this doctrine began in 1950 with a clearly erroneous reading of the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA). The West Point case shows the legal lunacy and lethality of this doctrine.
JonathanTurley
AUGUST 23, 2023
However, Roice later shared a photo on Instagram of herself at the Washington Monument, participating in the Jan. Roice responded correctly that “protesting is perfectly legal in the country and I’ve already had my sit down with the FBI. That should have been the end of a nice story. 6 protest over the 2020 presidential election.
JonathanTurley
APRIL 14, 2022
Depp is suing Heard for $50 million based largely on an 2018 Washington Post opinion piece where she described herself a survivor of domestic and sexual violence. It is a curious defense because it is not a legal defense. He still lost and the judge declared that the Sun published was “substantially true.”
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