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.

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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.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 5, 2023

The Court was seeking to protect the media from efforts to deter coverage and commentary through the threat of civil lawsuits. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Hodgkinson, of Illinois, 66, a liberal activist and Sanders supporter. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. At the time, many objected to the column as a transparent effort to shift attention from the shooting of GOP Rep.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Judge Frank Easterbrook wrote that “although the article drips with disapproval of Wilkow’s (and the judges’) conduct, an author’s opinion about business ethics isn’t defamatory under Illinois law.” The Court ruled in favor of Butts, and The Saturday Evening Post was ordered to pay $3.06

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