Entertainment Statute Tort 
Day on Torts
MAY 24, 2022
Where the gravamen of plaintiff’s complaint was his tort claim for defamation seeking unliquidated damages, the chancery court did not have subject matter jurisdiction and the case should have been transferred to circuit court. In Lowery v. Redmond , No. W2021-00611-COA-R3-CV (Tenn.
At the Lectern
JUNE 13, 2024
Two included separate explanatory statements: Three votes for review, and a dissenting statement, in juvenile coerced plea case Two votes for review, and a dissenting statement, in youth-offender LWOP no-parole case A third case concerned domestic violence torts. ” In another COVID insurance case, Another Planet Entertainment, LLC v.
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JonathanTurley
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. Dirty World Entertainment. Specifically, § 230 precludes courts from entertaining claims that would place a computer service provider in a publisher’s role. 47 U.S.C. § America Online, Inc.,
The IP Law Blog
MAY 18, 2023
California’s right of publicity statute is Civil Code Section 3344, and it prohibits the use of another’s name, voice, photograph, or likeness on or in products, merchandise, or goods, or for purposes of advertising or selling such products, merchandise, or goods without such person’s prior consent. The first was Midler v. Frito Lay.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 21, 2021
United States that the Federal Tort Claims Act, through which Congress generally waived the federal government’s sovereign immunity from tort liability, does not extend to service-members’ injuries that “arise out of or are in the course of activity incident” to a person’s active duty service in the military. United States , 20-559.
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