SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

United States , the 1950 Supreme Court case holding that the United States is not liable under the Federal Tort Claims Act for injuries sustained by members of the armed forces while on active duty and resulting from the negligence of others in the armed forces. United States. The case involves the so-called Feres doctrine, after Feres v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 23, 2021

The fatal shooting at Bonanza Creek Ranch already has the makings of a blockbuster tort action. ” The question is not whether but when the first torts lawsuit will be filed. What is clear is that there is an abundance of evidence to support a tort action even at this early stage.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

He was charged with (and later acquitted of) a felony under an Ohio law prohibiting the use of a computer to “disrupt” or “interrupt” police functions. Parody and satire also face threats from other legal actions, particularly tort actions over the appropriation of names or likenesses (called the right to publicity).

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 10, 2021

There is an interesting criminal case out of the Minnesota that highlights both criminal and tort doctrines on the defense of self and defense of property. The case highlights rivaling doctrines that we often discuss in Torts. Many states now have “Castle doctrine” laws, which allow people to use lethal force in defense of their homes.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

The court ruled that Georgia’s prior citizen’s arrest law is only applicable if a person sees a felony committed and acts without delay. The judge ruled Friday afternoon that the prior citizen’s arrest law requires that the arrest would have to occur right after any felony crime was committed. 17-4-60 (2010) 17-4-60.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 16, 2021

The use of force in such a circumstance is justified under Indiana Code 35-41-3-3(b): A law enforcement officer is justified in using reasonable force if the officer reasonably believes that the force is necessary to effect a lawful arrest. ?However, to prevent the commission of a forcible felony; ?or.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 27, 2021

They argue that his Nazi flags are protected First Amendment speech and that he had a right to defend himself under the law. I do not see the reasonable basis for such a use of force in this case even under the highly deferential standards of SYG laws. I teach these cases in my torts class and they raise many of the same issues.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

We have previously discussed Castle Doctrine laws or “make my day” laws, including other cases involving garage shootings or shootings off the property of the homeowner. The common law has long offered ample protections even for reasonable mistakes. The SYG law was widely debated with the George Zimmerman murder case.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

.” Those constitute per se categories of common law defamation, which include allegations of criminal conduct. The alleged misconduct would constitute federal felonies. However, months earlier, they allege, Hunter himself publicly disclosed that he was the subject of a criminal tax investigation.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

In 2012, Grosskreutz was charged with a felony burglary charge in New Berlin when he was caught trying to sell three stolen PlayStation consoles. In 2013, he was charged with smashing the bedroom window at a former girlfriend’s home at 4 a.m. The girlfriend alleged that he had been harassing her.

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JURIST

JANUARY 22, 2024

The Biden administration requested the decision to allow federal agents to access the border without facing tort claims from Texas. The Supremacy Clause of the US Constitution stipulates that states cannot interfere with federal law and that federal law supersedes conflicting state laws.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2023

This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, PETA’s First Amendment challenge to a North Carolina law that imposes monetary damages on undercover workplace recording. The law at issue was enacted in response to a dispute between Food Lion and ABC News in North Carolina in the late 1990s.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 25, 2025

In 1974, the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution generally permits states to strip people convicted of felonies of their right to vote. Felony disenfranchisement has a long, and often racist, history. Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The ACCA extends the minimum sentence – from 10 years to 15 – for an individual who had been convicted of a felony and possesses a firearm when that person has at least three “serious drug offenses.” Under state law, Georgia contends, there was never a valid verdict in McElrath’s case, and he can therefore be retried.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. South Dakota Federal Court Granted Preliminary Injunction Against Enforcement of Laws Targeting Pipeline Protesters. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

.” The right still exists for any felonies (or certain misdemeanors committed in the presence of the citizen). When the person arrested has committed a felony, although not in his presence. When a felony has been in fact committed, and he has reasonable cause for believing the person arrested to have committed it.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

They prefer to falsely vilify the Democratic opposition and President Biden’s “crime family” while blaming an imaginary “deep state” and very real federal and state judicial departments for “weaponizing” the discriminatory wheels of law enforcement against the former president.

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