Court Rules Tort Washington 
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 2, 2023
Glacier sued the union in state court for “tortious destruction” of its property – the spoiled concrete. The Washington Supreme Court dismissed the case, finding that it wasn’t appropriate to apply state tort law to a labor dispute even arguably covered by NLRA under Garmon.
JURIST
OCTOBER 4, 2022
1252(d)(1) which holds that immigrants must first exhaust all administrative remedies before turning to a federal court for review. Glacier brought a tort claim against the Teamsters for the loss of concrete. The Teamsters are asking that the court affirm this lower court ruling, while Glacier seeks to enforce state tort law.
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Patently O
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
1] He is also an adjunct professor at American University Washington College of Law. ten years ago—at least in part due to longstanding common law rules on champerty, maintenance, [3] and patent law’s relative high risk—today third-party litigation funding (TPLF) [4] undergirds about 30% of all patent litigation, by conservative estimates. [5]
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 15, 2023
This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether a Washington state law that bars licensed therapists from practicing conversion therapy on children violates the First Amendment. In the same year, a divided Supreme Court ruled in National Institute for Family and Life Advocates v.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 19, 2021
For example, Washington state allows for the charging of a misdemeanor. 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. That was the holding in the famous ruling in Yania v.
JonathanTurley
MAY 3, 2021
Fitzgerald , the Supreme Court ruled that “government officials performing discretionary functions generally are shielded from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”. In 1982, in Harlow v.
JonathanTurley
JANUARY 19, 2022
That included a column by Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus asking “ Why is a prominent federal judge hiring a law clerk who said she hates Black people ?” The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. 157, 168 (1979).
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