Court Rules Florida Tort 
JURIST
JUNE 6, 2022
The parents of Gianinna Gallardo initiated this lawsuit to seek “a declaration that Florida was violating the Medicaid Act by trying to recover from portions of the settlement compensating for future medical expenses.” Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented from the ruling, with Justice Stephen Breyer joining.
JURIST
JUNE 2, 2022
A Florida appeals court Wednesday held that the University of South Florida (USF) cannot invoke sovereign immunity to avoid a COVID-19 student fees lawsuit. USF appealed a trial court’s denial of “its motion to dismiss in which it asserted the defense of sovereign immunity.”
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JonathanTurley
MARCH 25, 2021
In my torts class, we discuss sports torts and defenses. Last week, a three-justice panel of the Illinois First District Appellate Court in Chicago ruled against MLB and the Cubs in seeking to enforce the boilerplate language on arbitration printed on the back of baseball tickets.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 30, 2023
Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. However, my students and I often discuss the remarkably wide range of torts that comes with All Hallow’s Eve. In another June 2023 decision in Munoz v.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Former President Donald Trump is suing CNN in a $475 million defamation lawsuit, according to a complaint filed in federal court in the Southern District of Florida on Monday. The Court ruled in favor of Butts, and The Saturday Evening Post was ordered to pay $3.06 million (later reduced to $460,000) to Butts in damages.
JonathanTurley
APRIL 3, 2021
Indeed, as a torts professor, this could prove the golden age of defamation. Those cases join various cases against figures like Donald Trump, who recently lost a major ruling. It now seems certain that Florida Rep. He now practices in Florida at the firm Beggs & Lane.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
OCTOBER 7, 2019
The court also temporarily enjoined two felony riot statutes because they went “far beyond” the State’s “appropriate interest” in criminalizing participation in a riot with acts of force or violence. The court also found that Mann’s lawsuit did not constitute state action and therefore dismissed the writer’s constitutional tort claim.
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