SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Share Less than two months after oral argument, in its first interstate groundwater case, the Supreme Court unanimously decided that Mississippi must rely on a doctrine known as equitable apportionment if it wants to sue Tennessee over the shared Middle Claiborne Aquifer.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 15, 2022

Or do you prefer close-to-home, no-traffic drama and being out of the midst of the major law firms and courts? States with the highest employment levels were Florida, California, Texas, New York, and Illinois, with annual wages ranging from $52,100 to $60,390. That will dictate the “where.”

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 25, 2021

In my torts class, we discuss sports torts and defenses. Last week, a three-justice panel of the Illinois First District Appellate Court in Chicago ruled against MLB and the Cubs in seeking to enforce the boilerplate language on arbitration printed on the back of baseball tickets. Now the Appellate court has agreed.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 16, 2021

After filing a civil suit against the truck driver and others, her parents recovered $800,000 in a court-approved settlement. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit allowed Florida’s action, even though, the Gallardos maintain, the Florida Supreme Court and other state and federal courts would not.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 21, 2023

Stories about climate change and insurance dominate the news , as insurer after insurer pulls out of markets like Florida and California that are at high risk of climate change-driven catastrophes. Climate litigation is a broad and rapidly changing risk, however, and current industry modelling techniques struggle to capture its full scope.

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Above The Law

MARCH 28, 2023

What are firms supposed to do when their opponents are trying to put them out of business? The post Massive Plaintiffs Law Firm Decides To Play Hardball With Insurance Industry appeared first on Above the Law.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit rejected a lawsuit against Google, Facebook and Twitter on Monday, concerning the 2016 Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando. The plaintiffs also brought claims against the companies under Florida common law, claiming negligent infliction of emotional distress and wrongful death.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 4, 2023

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court decision that vacated the listing of the Beringia distinct population segment (DPS) of the Pacific bearded seal subspecies as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). West Virginia Federal Court Ordered EPA to Evaluate Clean Air Act’s Impacts on Coal Industry.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

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. A tort action for intentional infliction of emotional distress is likely to fail. Again, the court agreed.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

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.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

.” The filing is a Jackson Pollock of legal claims with twelve claims thrown against Florida from false imprisonment to intentional infliction of emotional distress to misuse of the Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund. The filing of a lawsuit upon entry to the United States is not unprecedented, of course. which was completely false.”

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Court document photo. Angela Kogan, the owner of Perfection Plastic Surgery & MedSpa, will now have to go to trial to defend the use of the images on social media in an interesting case on the “right to publicity” in torts. Court document photos. Court document photo.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Edward Druzolowski, 78, is facing a second-degree murder charge in Florida after gunning down his neighbor over a tree cutting dispute. Florida is a Castle Doctrine state as well as a Stand Your Ground state. There is an allowance in torts for mistaken self-defense. That could factor heavily into the criminal investigation.

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ALPS

AUGUST 11, 2021

This is one of the things I say to students all the time, “You’re coming to us not only to learn about contracts and torts, you’re coming to learn how to become a future professional. Where it’s like, “Oh my gosh, that torts professor’s a real person.” And this really sucks right now.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 26, 2021

I joined in expressing those concerns about courts preventing a news publication and then ordering the return of material sent by a source. That issue will be now be addressed in the courts. One question, however, remains: when will the FBI raid the home of New York Times publisher, A.G. Sulzberger ? According to the Times, on Oct.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court took care of a lot of relist business at its last conference, denying review in four serially relisted cases, in each instance with separate writings from the justices. The court denied Trevino v.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Young has been doing well in court and last week he won on additional major issues against CNN. The court found that CNNs retraction was insufficient to remove punitive damages from the table. In my torts class, we discuss retraction statutes and the requirements of time and clarity. Under Florida’s Section 770.02(1),

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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.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

In celebration of Thanksgiving, I give you our annual Turkey Torts of civil and criminal cases that add liability to libations on this special day (with past cases at the bottom). Indeed, the torts and crimes recorded this year seem painfully reminiscent of this loathsome year. Some things are happily left out of the courts.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 29, 2025

To refresh: Trumps favorite jurist, Judge Aileen Cannon of the Southern District of Florida, used the pending appeal as justification to bury half of Special Counsel Jack Smiths final report. That dismissal was on appeal to the Eleventh Circuit, which would appear to divest the trial court of jurisdiction.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Florida Southern District Court. He argues that the court is allowed to take “judicial notice” of the agreement in light of the fact that it has been used previously in court, including the voluntary dismissal of her battery claims against Epstein’s former attorney, Alan Dershowitz in a parallel case.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 12, 2022

Florida Southern District Court. In her 46-page decision, Judge Lewis A Kaplan of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York adopted an extremely narrow reading of the settlement and eschewed the defense arguments on threshold barriers to any lawsuit.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Fourth Circuit Declined to Stay Remand Order in Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies; Companies Sought Stay from Supreme Court. Supreme Court. On October 2, the district court granted the companies’ motion to temporarily extend its stay of the remand order until the Supreme Court resolves the application.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Former President Donald Trump is suing CNN in a $475 million defamation lawsuit, according to a complaint filed in federal court in the Southern District of Florida on Monday. Sullivan, where the Supreme Court held that the first amendment requires breathing space for free speech in criticizing public officials.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 3, 2021

Indeed, as a torts professor, this could prove the golden age of defamation. It now seems certain that Florida Rep. He now practices in Florida at the firm Beggs & Lane. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 4, 2022

Giuffre’s attorney David Boies has suggested that the agreement would not include Prince Andrew because he was not subject to any litigation or allegations in Florida where it was finalized. While the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 18, 2021

Big topic of discussion in Florida…and, he’s a Nut Job (with bad ratings). The problem is that this can be defended as an opinion and thus protected under constitutional and tort cases. If you sue, you toll the statute of limitations even if a court puts the case on a delayed schedule. Body found under his desk? In Clinton v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

In Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies, Supreme Court Held that Appellate Review of Remand Order Extends to All Grounds for Removal. The Court declined to review the companies’ other grounds for removal, finding that the “wiser course” was to allow the Fourth Circuit to address them in the first instance.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

New York courts look to whether a reasonable person would consider the statement to be conveying a fact. However, a case could be made for defamation and a court could find that the matter should be left to the fact finder at trial. New York Times Co. , 623 N.E.2d 2d 1163, 1169 (N.Y. Boeheim , 22 N.E.3d 3d 999, 1005 (N.Y.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of New York City’s lawsuit seeking climate change damages from oil companies. The Second Circuit’s decision largely followed the reasoning of the district court’s 2018 decision. and Minnesota Federal Courts Remanded Climate Cases Against Fossil Fuel Industry.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 25, 2021

Or you watch a football game with friends and try to explain that the cameraman wiped out by the running back would have a great torts case. Yet the true president at that moment was in Florida: Donald Trump legally would remain in office for ten more minutes, under the 20th Amendment.

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