Constitutional Law Reporter

JUNE 17, 2022

Respondent Robert Boule owns a bed-and-breakfast—the Smuggler’s Inn—in Blaine, Washington. Boule filed a grievance with Agent Egbert’s supervisors and an ad- ministrative claim with Border Patrol pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA). Facts of the Case.

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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. Washington. A 1936 federal law waives federal immunity from state workers’ compensation laws on federal land and projects. Washington implicitly contemplates such situations.

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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). Tort liability does not simply make victims whole but encourages others to take precautions.

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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. He still lost and the judge declared that the Sun published was “substantially true.” ” He is now trying his hand with a Virginia jury.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Indeed, I teach in torts where an immigrant to the United States filed a tort action for an involuntary inoculation upon entry in O’Brien v. The most serious allegation is that Florida officials “told them they were flying to Boston or Washington, D.C., which was completely false.”

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. Indeed, it leaves open the question of whether a little more liability might go a long way in reinforcing journalistic values. You can find his updates on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 27, 2021

Last September, Stanford University and University of Washington researchers wrote that a Project Veritas video alleging voter fraud with unidentified sources was what a “a domestic, coordinated elite disinformation campaign looks like in the United States.” Project Veritas has been accused of misleading edits or accounts.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Not only is the law likely to be a large miss, it will likely deliver another blow to gun control efforts by adding precedent protecting Second Amendment rights. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. After all, who needs Texas when gun rights advocates have New York?

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 24, 2022

However, Roice later shared a photo on Instagram of herself at the Washington Monument, participating in the Jan. The Washington Post once ran a column about the difficulty of knowing if controversial lines were uttered by Trump or by Baldwin portraying Trump. That should have been the end of a nice story.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 23, 2023

However, Roice later shared a photo on Instagram of herself at the Washington Monument, participating in the Jan. T]he Court concludes that Roice fails to allege that the post contains any false information: she admits that she was present at the demonstration in Washington, D.C. That should have been the end of a nice story.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The lawsuit strikes me as meritless under governing tort doctrines. Torts cases of defamation often turn common understanding of such expression as jokes or opinion. The lawsuit not only contradicts governing case law but threatens constitutional protections for free speech and the free press in seeking such tort relief.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The Democratic nominee was exposed recently by the Washington Post in streaming sex acts on a site called Chaturbate for money. There are a couple torts that could be raises but neither would be compelling in this circumstance. The second tort is the inclusion upon seclusion. However, this was not a private fact.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Here is the column: For those of us who teach torts, we are living in the golden age of defamation. ” What we really need is an airing out – not of the constitutional standard but of its application to non-public officials. It is a tough question with good arguments on both sides, but it is a debate that is long overdue.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 10, 2024

The courts have long recognized that presidents are allowed to establish priorities in the enforcement of federal laws, even when those priorities tend to lower enforcement for certain groups or areas. It is a matter of discretion. 2680(a) for policy-based judgments. That is why the case has not been made to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 21, 2021

The Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) contains a major exception called the the discretionary function exception to protect officials from lawsuits for poor judgments. It is often not the scandal but the response to the scandal that gets powerful people in trouble in Washington. We have no evidence that such offense have occurred here.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 25, 2021

Or you watch a football game with friends and try to explain that the cameraman wiped out by the running back would have a great torts case. It will be a fun bit of trivia for constitutional law geeks, but it was also telling. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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