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Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

The Volokh Conspiracy

.— and even rarer, one oral advocate still in law school — the Fourth Circuit holds that a dismissal on Younger -abstention grounds does not count as a "strike" under the Prison Litigation Reform Act. Florida law prohibits male-at-birth public high school teacher from using the honorific "Ms." Answer: No.

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Government contractors’ defenses, election challenges, and intellectual disability in capital cases

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United States , involving the scope of a statute that gives judges discretion to reduce criminal sentences for extraordinary and compelling reasons. Government contractors defenses to torts The GEO Group, Inc. The Supreme Court is making good progress in sorting through the current relists. This week it disposed of four. In Hencely v.

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Spooky Torts: The 2021 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. A tort action for intentional infliction of emotional distress is likely to fail. See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102.

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Spooky Torts: The 2022 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. However, my students and I often discuss the remarkably wide range of torts that comes with All Hallow’s Eve.

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Missouri Fails Again to Extend Abuse Lawsuits

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RSS Feed Find us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Menu LegalReader.com · Legal News, Analysis, & Commentary Home Business Health & Medicine Lawsuits & Litigation News & Politics Science Positive News Crimes Search Lawsuits & Litigation Missouri Fails Again to Extend Abuse Lawsuits Sara E. Join the conversation!

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Spooky Torts: The 2023 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. However, my students and I often discuss the remarkably wide range of torts that comes with All Hallow’s Eve. In another June 2023 decision in Munoz v.

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TURKEY TORTS (2020)

JonathanTurley

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. The result is a horn of plenty for litigators.

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