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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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 10, 2022

A tragedy in North Carolina could present rather difficult torts questions in a wrongful death case for a grieving family. While I am not a North Carolina lawyer, the state does not appear ideal for plaintiffs in this type of action and the facts of the case could present other difficulties.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The thirty-seventh annual survey on choice of law in the American courts is now available on SSRN. Choice of Law The Eighth Circuit applied Mexican law to a suit against General Motors over a car crash in Mexico, while an Ohio state court applied South African law to invalidate a marriage. In Yegiazaryan v. In Abitron Austria GmbH v.

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Laws Court Divorce Tort 75

Day on Torts

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Where an HCLA plaintiff’s expert testified at his deposition that he was not very familiar with Kingsport and that he had only reviewed information about Kingsport the night before the deposition, rather than before forming his medical opinions, the trial court did not err by excluding the expert based on the locality rule. In Jackson v.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 18, 2021

Courts have ruled that a car that makes contact with officers is a basis for the justified use of lethal force. Shots then were fired from behind as the car speeded directly toward an officer in a car. As I discussed earlier , reports of such contacts could be treated as the use of a car as a lethal weapon. See, e.g., In Thomas v.

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Attorney Laws Tort Criminal Law 53

JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2021

Bill Cosby is a free man after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned the conviction that sent him to jail roughly three years ago to serve 3-10 years for sexual assault. He proceeded to incriminate himself in what the Court said was a bait-and-switch. The court yielded to prosecutorial demands that were facially unconstitutional.

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Tort Depositions Laws Statute 59

SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2023

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, PETA’s First Amendment challenge to a North Carolina law that imposes monetary damages on undercover workplace recording.

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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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Court Laws Tort Litigating 109

Above The Law

JANUARY 27, 2025

It makes a (very) little more sense when you check the docket and realize that Passantino is represented by Jesse Binnall, the MAGAworld lawyer hired for pointless windmill tilts on behalf of such luminaries as former North Carolina Lt. And the answer was to yeet it into the sun. Passantino v.

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Lawyer Lawyers Tort Court 95

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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Laws Personal Injury Court Tort 93

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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Tort Statute Criminal Law Court 37

SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, challenges to President Donald Trump’s 50% tariff on Turkish steel, the University of North Carolina’s use of race in admissions, and Maine’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers. University of North Carolina.

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