Court Rules South Carolina Tort 
SCOTUSBlog
MAY 29, 2025
That brings us to this weeks conference, in which there are 143 petitions and applications on the Supreme Courts docket. Government contractors defenses to torts The GEO Group, Inc. Hencely sued Fluor in tort, alleging negligent hiring, supervision, and retention under South Carolina law, as well as third-party contract claims.
LegalReader
JUNE 5, 2025
The same report blamed the contractor for ignoring clear orders from the military and not following the safety rules in its contract. When Hencely returned home, he sued Fluor for negligence in a South Carolina court. He didn’t sue the Army.
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The Volokh Conspiracy
JUNE 10, 2025
Indeed, this Court has consistently recognized that making "conduct" illegal or tortious abridges free speech when the conduct consists of speech that supposedly causes harm because of what it communicates. The speech integral to illegal conduct exception only applies to speech that promotes some other crime or tort [A.] Argument [I.]
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 2, 2025
The lower courts dismissed their case, concluding that the plaintiffs lacked a legal right to sue, known as standing. Bost and the electors then came to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to take up their appeal.
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
Black churches feeling like they are going to get shot up, like at a Bible study that’s happened in South Carolina. The most obvious form of civil liability would be some type of tort action. The Court in cases like New York Times v. It would also not pass constitutional muster, in my view. In Brandenburg v.
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.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
JUNE 8, 2021
The court denied, however, Connecticut’s motion for costs and fees, noting that several issues raised by Exxon were novel in the Second Circuit and that many relevant portions of district court rulings in other circuits had not been subject to appellate review until the Supreme Court’s recent decision in the Baltimore case.
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