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.

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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.

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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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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 25, 2021

And whether the consideration for such transportation be pecuniary or otherwise, the personal safety of the passengers should not be left to the sport of chance or the negligence of careless agents. ” This personal injury was, of course, to a pedestrian but would certainly constitute a “gross” tort. Cummings , 158 Va.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 18, 2021

The Law and Economics of Extreme Sports Sponsoring in Comparative Perspective. This article investigates the law and economics of extreme sports sponsoring in a comparative perspective. 273-325 (53), DOI: 10.1628/rabelsz-2021-0002. In particular, such athletes should not be influenced by bonus systems in their risk-taking behaviour.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 26, 2023

I am skeptical of the claims, but there are novel elements that could lead to some important clarifications under Ohio tort law. Courts have largely rejected those claims. However, in this case, the officers are not alleging privacy torts like intrusion upon seclusion. I have serious concerns over the complaint. (C)

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2023

” As a sports figure, such allegations can have a major impact on his future contracts both with teams and advertisers. Sullivan, the Supreme Court crafted the actual malice standard that required public officials to shoulder the higher burden of proving defamation. Spears has given public statements and is a sports sensation.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In its earlier summary judgment ruling , the court began with a discussion of the highly analogous case of Pickering v. In that case, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of public high school teacher Marvin Pickering, who wrote a letter to the local newspaper criticizing a school board’s allocation of funding for athletic programs.

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SimplyLawJobs

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

If you don’t, or you feel that you could do with some additional training, then the most important element is to gain some knowledge of how the English Legal System works, especially the court system and hierarchy. If a qualification is what you’re after, then the NALP Level 3 Award is what you need. Freelancing.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 14, 2021

” The court noted that Wagner submitted an affidavit “in which he essentially denied that the conversation described by Lo Duca had ever occurred.” ” (The court elected not to consider the affidavit at the damages stage after rejecting testimony by affidavit). .”

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 19, 2021

I’ve discussed the New York public nuisance law aimed at gun manufacturers, a law that doubles down on a failed legal theory using torts as a substitute for direct legislative bans or barriers. City of Chicago , in which the Court declared that that right is incorporated against state and local government.

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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

JANUARY 25, 2025

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. In 1974, the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution generally permits states to strip people convicted of felonies of their right to vote. Two years ago, the court rejected an earlier challenge to the provision.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Boebert and Carlson are outspoken in their opposition to gender transitioning for children, transgender athletes competing in girl’s sporting event, and other current controversies. The most obvious form of civil liability would be some type of tort action. The Court in cases like New York Times v. In Brandenburg v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

In a split decision, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that young people and other plaintiffs asserting a claim against the federal government for infringement of a Fifth Amendment due process right to a “ climate system capable of sustaining human life” did not have Article III standing. One reason the petitioners asked the D.C.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

We are assured that his algorithm has reviewed “all court cases” and understands the law better than humans do! Cold-called in Torts. Follow him on Twitter or Bluesky if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Make sure all responses are properly Bluebooked. Blacked out.

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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. Some of these executive orders, if implemented directly, could be challenged in court. Then, this week, in the middle of one of the more beautiful inaugurations in history, I fixated on Sen.

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