Constitutional Law Reporter
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
By a vote of 8-1, the Court held that to plead facts sufficient to support a domestic application of the Alien Tort Statute, 28 U.S.C. The post Supreme Court Clarifies Scope of Alien Tort Statute appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. Supreme Court clarified when plaintiffs can seek redress in U.S.
JURIST
JANUARY 4, 2023
This transpired while considering the question of “ whether a statement by a Minister, inconsistent with the rights of a citizen under Part III of the Constitution, constitutes a violation of such constitutional rights and is actionable as ‘Constitutional Tort’?”
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LawSites
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
To decide which cases to prioritize, he collected a variety of syllabi for basic law school courses such as constitutional law and torts and extracted the key cases. So far, he has created 7,000 briefs, and hopes to have 50,000 by the end of the year. He also has the full text of every briefed case.
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 29, 2022
There is an interesting defamation case out of Idaho in which Rebecca Scofield , an associate professor and the chair of the history department at the University of Idaho, is suing TikTok personality Ashley Guillard for defamation.
Constitutional Law Reporter
MAY 13, 2022
To determine the elements of a constitutional claim under §1983, the Court’s practice is to first look to the elements of the most analogous tort as of 1871 when §1983 was enacted, so long as doing so is consistent with “the values and purposes of the constitutional right at issue.”
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 post Unanimous Court Rules FTCA Bars Suit Against Federal Officers appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. In Brownback v. King ,592 U. Six Unknown Fed. Narcotics Agents , 403 U.S.
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 torts, there is no duty to rescue rule. Cf: Restatement, Torts, § 322. We have seen criminal charges for videotaping crime scenes in other countries. French, 104 Pa.
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