SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court has returned from its summer break and gotten down to business. The court agreed to review a dozen petitions from that conference. Several of them are sequels to earlier high court decisions.

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InHouseOps

JULY 16, 2021

In January, a group of New York state legislators introduced a biometrics regulation bill that contains a private right of action similar to the already enacted Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). First, a California District Court approved Facebook’s $650,000,000 biometrics settlement. In re TikTok Inc.

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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.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 30, 2022

Share The Supreme Court heard argument on Monday in LeDure v. The answer to that question, which the justices faced on Monday, has tort-liability consequences: A railroad that violates the inspection law is strictly liable for any injuries suffered by its employees. Union Pacific Railroad Company.

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LettersBlogatory

AUGUST 23, 2021

On the other hand, it is very hard to see why, more than 75 years after the crimes of the Nazis and their French collaborators in France, a foreign national (or more precisely, his or her descendants) should have a legal remedy in a US court, for all sorts of reasons. As with the Germany v.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The use of the headdress could be treated by a court as opinion since many denounce such images as cultural appropriation. Judge Frank Easterbrook wrote that “although the article drips with disapproval of Wilkow’s (and the judges’) conduct, an author’s opinion about business ethics isn’t defamatory under Illinois law.” 2d 630 (Cal.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court did not grant review in any new cases since our last installment. The court did, however, deny review in one case that had been relisted three times – King v. Court of Appeals for the D.C.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. This Friday, the Supreme Court will be considering 196 petitions and applications at its conference. This Friday, the Supreme Court will be considering 196 petitions and applications at its conference.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 6, 2021

Below is my column in The Hill on the Supreme Court’s rejection of the case of a former West Point cadet who was barred from suing over the handling of her alleged rape. The case would have allowed a reconsideration of the Feres Doctrine, one of the most damaging and pernicious doctrines ever created by the Supreme Court.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. Respondents William Kivett and Bernard and Lisa Bravo filed a class action (which the district court later certified) against mortgage lender Flagstar for not paying interest on their escrow accounts.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 1, 2021

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. Because the court was running a little behind this year and just released its last opinions on Thursday, the court also held the mop-up conference on Thursday, and the order list will be released Friday morning at 9:30 a.m.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court is still slowly making inroads on the still-sizable number of lingering relists from the end-of-summer “long conference.” The court finally denied review on Nov. 20 in six-time relist E.I.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 12, 2022

Hodgkinson, of Illinois, 66, a liberal activist and Sanders supporter. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff, who was previously reversed by the Second Circuit after quickly dismissing Palin’s complaint. The editorial was on the shooting of GOP Rep. Steve Scalise and other members of Congress by James T. That decision rests with U.S.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 5, 2023

the Supreme Court crafted the actual malice standard that required public officials to shoulder the higher burden of proving defamation. The Court was seeking to protect the media from efforts to deter coverage and commentary through the threat of civil lawsuits. I recently testified on that new evidence. Under New York Times v.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

The court’s curious handling of the case backfired. That issue would have to be decided by the Supreme Court however given the prior ruling in New York Times v. Rakoff was previously reversed by the federal court of appeals for dismissing the action. Here is the column: In a trial in New York, federal judge Jed S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

Louisiana Federal Court Blocked Biden Administration “Pause” on New Oil and Gas Leases. The federal district court for the Western District of Louisiana issued a nationwide preliminary injunction barring the Biden administration from implementing a “Pause” on new oil and natural gas leases on public lands or in offshore waters.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 4, 2023

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 29, 2024

In the opinion below, the three-judge panel of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals threw out a 2022 jury verdict in favor of the New York Times due to the errors of Judge Rakoff. Hodgkinson, of Illinois, 66, a liberal activist and campaign supporter of Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). It was outrageously and demonstrably untrue.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

In its earlier ruling against the Times, the court put the theory of the case succinctly in its leading line: “Gov. Hodgkinson, of Illinois, 66, a liberal activist and Sanders supporter. 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

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. Butts (1967).

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