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JURIST
OCTOBER 16, 2023
The US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from North Carolina on Monday over the constitutionality of a state law allowing employers to sue employees working as undercover investigators. The court stated that the law substantially “burden[ed] newsgathering and publishing activities.”
Law 360
JANUARY 5, 2024
Delaware's Court of Chancery on Friday stayed a North Carolina public water authority's suit to void asset transfers in what the authority termed a toxic pollution liability "shell game" by DuPont affiliates and successors, after defense attorneys acknowledged omissions in an opposition brief.
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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.
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 13, 2022
Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. This week’s update on the cases that the Supreme Court has newly relisted will be short: There aren’t any new relists. Gorsuch said he hoped the court would overturn those cases soon in “an appropriate case.”
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.
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.
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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