JonathanTurley

AUGUST 31, 2022

Aladin was charged with robbery, which is a second degree felony, and Whettstone and Lawrence were charged with first degree misdemeanor assault. Oberlin maintained in court filings that the son and grandson of the owners of Gibson’s Bakery “violently and unreasonably attacked” an unarmed student, but that is not how the police viewed it.

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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. Restatement (Second) of Torts § 218 cmt. Al Rakip J. ”).

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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. Here is the prior law: O.C.G.A.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 16, 2021

to prevent the commission of a forcible felony; ?or. However, this is now a defamation action which could present significant challenges based on the elements for the tort. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

There is an allowance in torts for mistaken self-defense. It is likely also outside of the “curtilage” of the home, where the protection of the domicile can extend. However, Druzolowski is saying that Ford had the chain saw and was threatening him. A position partially supported by his son. In the case of Courvoisier v.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 27, 2021

I teach these cases in my torts class and they raise many of the same issues. Again, these provisions raise whether he had a “reasonable belief” that it was necessary to “meet force with force.” ” There is no disagreement that McVey was unarmed and running away.

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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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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The alleged misconduct would constitute federal felonies. ” Those constitute per se categories of common law defamation, which include allegations of criminal conduct.

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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 US Supreme Court voted 5-4 on Monday to permit federal border patrol agents to cut the razor wire that Texas installed on the US-Mexico border. The Supreme Court will address the case in full this session.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2023

22-1150 Issue : Whether the First Amendment prohibits applying state tort law against double-agent employees who gather information, including by secretly recording, in the nonpublic areas of an employer’s property and who use that information to breach their duty of loyalty to the employer. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Inc.

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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.” United States and Jackson v. United States , involving the Armed Career Criminal Act.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The court also temporarily enjoined two felony riot statutes because they went “far beyond” the State’s “appropriate interest” in criminalizing participation in a riot with acts of force or violence. The court also found that Mann’s lawsuit did not constitute state action and therefore dismissed the writer’s constitutional tort claim.

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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

At the same time, Trump has been held liable on many occasions for fraud or for violating civil laws and torts. With respect to Trump he remains a primary deviant when it comes to ordinary customs as he has not been successfully stigmatized or shamed by others and certainly not by himself.

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