SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

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.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 27, 2021

There is a no stand-your-ground case out of Oklahoma where Alexander Feaster, 46 is claiming that he shot Kyndal McVey, 27, in the back while she ran away as an act of self-defense. I teach these cases in my torts class and they raise many of the same issues. ” He shot McVey in the lower abdomen and legs as she ran away.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Below is my column in the Wall Street Journal on the ongoing opioid litigation and an important ruling out of the Oklahoma Supreme Court. ” The Oklahoma Supreme Court last week struck down a $465 million opioid award against Johnson & Johnson based on a legal theory that has previously been tried and failed against guns.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The case highlights the problem with criminalized negligence standards, particularly in these weapon confusion cases. The question is whether justice is truly served by applying criminal laws to acts of negligence by officers in these cases. There is a tendency to treat criminal law as the only way to address fatal tragedies.

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