The Crime Report

JUNE 27, 2022

For the sake of civilian safety, police must intervene if they see misconduct by colleagues,, according to a forthcoming paper in the George Washington Law Review. Kaufman writes that Congress and state legislatures should enact criminal laws mandating a “duty to intervene” in their colleagues’ misuse of force.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Generally there is no duty to rescue or to call police under the common law. For example, Washington state allows for the charging of a misdemeanor. The law covers violent crimes, sexual assault, and assault of a child. In torts, there is no duty to rescue rule. Cf: Restatement, Torts, § 322. French, 104 Pa.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Ferguson involves a First Amendment challenge to Washington state’s law prohibiting “conversion therapy,” the practice of seeking to change a gay or transgender person’s sexual orientation or gender identity through counseling. King sued them under the Federal Tort Claims Act and under Bivens v. ” (relisted after the Sept.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

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. Mr. Turley is a law professor at George Washington University.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 1, 2024

If true, this would seem a major story in using criminal laws to police parodies. While this may seem biased in favor of our common law system, the controversy over his meme shows why (in my view) such systems are better suited for resolving such controversies. Yet, there remains virtually no coverage.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 3, 2021

Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. If Seattle gets chopped in court, it will be due not to a failure of government but to a failure to govern. You can find his updates online @JonathanTurley.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

In celebration of Thanksgiving, I give you our annual Turkey Torts of civil and criminal cases that add liability to libations on this special day (with past cases at the bottom). Indeed, the torts and crimes recorded this year seem painfully reminiscent of this loathsome year. For example, in Weirum v.

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