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Tarasoff Revisited: Nebraska Court Rejects Liability Of Psychiatrist After Patient Murders Girlfriend

JonathanTurley

Her parents, Angela Rodriguez and Adan Rodriguez, sued Lasting Hope and Benton’s employer, University of Nebraska Medical Center Physicians, but the Nebraska Supreme Court affirmed the dismissal of the action due to a lack of any legal duty to warn or protect the girlfriend. We have discussed decisions extending Tarasoff.

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Justice Sotomayor References Rarely Used Procedure: Circuit Certification to U.S. Supreme Court

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Four years ago, the Supreme Court declined a federal habeas petitioner’s request to review the Sixth Circuit’s decision in Avery v. Justice Kavanaugh, the Sixth Circuit’s assigned circuit justice, attached a “ statement ” to the Supreme Court’s cert. But the Court turned it away. United States , 770 F. 1080, 1081 (2020).

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Could The Arrest of FBI Agent Undermine The Whitmer Kidnapping Case?

JonathanTurley

Courts look to two elements in entrapment cases. 540 (1992), the Court ruled that a Nebraska man convicting of receiving child pornography through the mail was entrapped. Writing for the 5-4 majority, Justice Bryon White ruled that. The FBI even paid for room and foods to keep the planning going. In Jacobson v.