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JURIST
MARCH 26, 2025
The Tokyo District Court ordered the dissolution of the Japanese branch of the Unification Church, colloquially known as “moonies”, following an inquest from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology into alleged violations of the Japanese Civil Code and Religious Corporations Act, according to local media.
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 31, 2023
In teaching torts, I begin my discussion of the intentional infliction of emotional distress by having students write in their notes “not everything is the infliction of emotional distress.” Keisel brought an array of tort claims that have now been correctly rejected by the courts. Here as elsewhere, context is key.
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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.
JonathanTurley
JANUARY 21, 2024
In my torts class, we discuss the often uncertain line between ordinary citizens and public figures. This week, the South Carolina Supreme Court handed down a major ruling in Cruce v. Sullivan, the Supreme Court crafted the actual malice standard that required public officials to shoulder the higher burden of proving defamation.
The IP Law Blog
MAY 12, 2022
West’s lawyer claims that the producers have committed the tort of false light invasion of privacy by creating a false impression about Mr. West that is highly offensive and injurious to his reputation and have also defamed Mr. West by attributing acts of rage to him that he never committed. Citing the Ninth Circuit case of Partington v.
Conflict of Laws
JANUARY 10, 2022
One is the jurisdictional challenge of finding a competent court in the same jurisdiction as the individual users. [3] This constellation provides a strong argument for facilitating collective redress, as otherwise individual users may not be able to obtain justice for privacy infringements before the courts.
Day on Torts
JANUARY 29, 2021
He had played several sports before but had never “participated in shot put and was not familiar with the event.” He stayed home for 2-3 weeks before being released to return to school, and he was eventually released to return to sports. The Court even pointed out that defendants’ own internal investigation concluded that “Mr.
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