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The long conference’s relists

SCOTUSBlog

James King, then a college student, got into an altercation with plainclothes federal officers Todd Allen and Douglas Brownback because he says he thought they were criminals mugging him. King sued them under the Federal Tort Claims Act and under Bivens v. Criminal law We are now in the home stretch. Maryland and Napue v.

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Too Clever By Half: Why Public Nuisance is Again at the Heart of a Public Health Debate

JonathanTurley

Public nuisance was originally addressed in England by criminal laws against such offenses as obstructing “the King’s highways.” Yet the torts system has an elaborate and well-functioning system of product liability. The concept of nuisance is appealing when dealing with unpopular products that cause social harm. In Chicago v.

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