Court Criminal Law Rhode Island 
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 21, 2021
Below is my column in the Wall Street Journal on the ongoing opioid litigation and an important ruling out of the Oklahoma Supreme Court. ” The Oklahoma Supreme Court last week struck down a $465 million opioid award against Johnson & Johnson based on a legal theory that has previously been tried and failed against guns.
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
The use of tumultuous conduct is part of other disorderly conduct laws in Hawaii, Vermont, and other states. In Vermont, a court noted in State v. ” In Rhode Island, the court in State v. .'” ” In Rhode Island, the court in State v.
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JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 26, 2021
Dghoughi came to this country from Morocco and obtained a master’s degree in financial analysis from Rhode Island’s Johnson & Wales University. What is notable is that Turner is relying on the SYG law rather than the Castle Doctrine. The common law has long offered ample protections even for reasonable mistakes.
JonathanTurley
MARCH 26, 2021
While it is rare for academics to be involved in such destructive protests, other professors have supported such criminal acts including Professor Sarah Parchak at the University of Alabama who supplied instructions on how to topple such monuments. Another called for strangling police.
JonathanTurley
APRIL 3, 2025
Now, on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, a professor allegedly trashed a table of the College Republicans over their support for Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel. ” There is now a Alvergue charged with disorderly conduct, according to Wisconsin court records.
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 28, 2021
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has handed down a significant ruling on the exception to the First Amendment for criminal threats. The court reversed the decision of District Court Judge Charles Breyer, who rejected the charges against Howard Weiss who threatened Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
JonathanTurley
MARCH 28, 2023
The most analogous case is that of University of Rhode Island professor Erik Loomis, who defended the murder of a conservative protester and said that he saw “nothing wrong” with such acts of violence. Yet, those extreme statements from the left are rarely subject to cancel campaigns or university actions.
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