Court Court Rules Criminal Law Tort 
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 27, 2024
This month, there is a new case on the docket after the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Smith & Wesson Brands v. The First Circuit reversed a trial court that dismissed the case, alleging that the American firearms industry is legally responsible for violence in Mexico. The Court has accepted the review on two questions: 1.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
The UK Supreme Court Wednesday held that a person under criminal investigation has a “reasonable expectation of privacy” with regard to information about that investigation prior to being charged. Claiming a tort of misuse of private information, ZXC sought damages and injunctive relief against Bloomberg.
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JonathanTurley
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
Despite this history, a new decision out of the High Court is still shocking in its implications for further attacks on free speech. The court ruled that newspapers and television stations that post articles on social media sites like Facebook are liable for other third party comments on those posts.
Conflict of Laws
MARCH 30, 2021
Since Foster v Driscoll [1929] 1 KB 470, common law courts have recognised that contracts made with the intention to commit a criminal offence in a foreign state are unenforceable, even if the contract contemplated an alternative mode or place of performance. Lyu Yan wanted to transfer money from China to Singapore.
JonathanTurley
JANUARY 13, 2021
The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. The Court sought to create “breathing space” for the media by articulating that standard that now applies to both public officials and public figures. Under Gertz v. Confidential.”
Conflict of Laws
AUGUST 3, 2023
After all, mandatory application in EU courts is largely irrelevant if courts do not have jurisdiction in the first place. If the remaining alternative is to bring an action in a court outside the EU, the application of the CSDDD civil liability regime is not, however, guaranteed. Common to Arts. 22 (5) CSDDD.
JonathanTurley
JULY 7, 2021
The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) showed Kelley as eligible to buy such firearms despite his 2012 conviction by a general court martial of domestic assault on his wife and child. The court ruled that. That should have made him ineligible.
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