JURIST

JUNE 2, 2022

A Florida appeals court Wednesday held that the University of South Florida (USF) cannot invoke sovereign immunity to avoid a COVID-19 student fees lawsuit. However, Florida law waives sovereign immunity for torts, subject to exceptions.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 6, 2022

Florida’s statute includes a formula that allocates $300,000 to past and future medical expenses. The result of this case is that Florida, which has spent more than $300,000 on Gallardo’s medical care, can take $300,000 from the settlement; it is not limited to $36,000.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

A "landmark" verdict out of Georgia that put Amazon on the hook for an independent contractor delivery driver's negligence and a hearing-impaired Florida physician's disciplinary matter lead Law360's Tort Report, which compiles recent personal injury and medical malpractice news that may have flown under the radar.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 6, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that state Medicaid programs can seek reimbursement from tort-settlement payments that are allocated for accident victims’ future medical care. The issue in Gallardo was what to do when a state Medicaid program pays for injuries if the injured person later recovers a tort settlement from a third party.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The social media website formerly known as Twitter was hit Monday in Florida federal court with one of its first trademark lawsuits over Elon Musk's recent decision to rebrand the website as "X" — coming from a Florida legal marketing firm that also puts out "Mass Tort Insider."

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Edward Druzolowski, 78, is facing a second-degree murder charge in Florida after gunning down his neighbor over a tree cutting dispute. Florida is a Castle Doctrine state as well as a Stand Your Ground state. There is an allowance in torts for mistaken self-defense. That could factor heavily into the criminal investigation.

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Law 360

AUGUST 8, 2024

California plaintiffs with tort claims against Bird Global Inc. can't stop a Chapter 11 plan for the bankrupt e-bike and e-scooter rental company while they appeal its confirmation because of the plan's third-party releases, a Florida bankruptcy judge ruled Thursday.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

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. The next scary moment is likely to be in the form of a torts complaint.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

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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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 15, 2022

States with the highest employment levels were Florida, California, Texas, New York, and Illinois, with annual wages ranging from $52,100 to $60,390. She worked in larger firms in the downtown Phoenix area for past Presidents of the American Trial Lawyer’s Association, specializing in tort law.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

For example, a downstream state that really wants a surface water flow for ecological reasons, as Florida wanted in last term’s Florida v. As Florida learned last term, that is an extremely difficult burden to meet even in the surface water context, and even when fisheries and endangered species depend on the flow of water.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 14, 2021

These cases often involve both criminal and tort cases. Vincenzo Zurlo had a second rhinoplasty operation but it still was deformed so he asked for her license and insurance. She allegedly declined and was later arrested. In negligence cases, the defendant is often subject to the standard of the profession to determine culpability.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Angela Kogan, the owner of Perfection Plastic Surgery & MedSpa, will now have to go to trial to defend the use of the images on social media in an interesting case on the “right to publicity” in torts. Florida codified the common law tort for misappropriation of name or likeness.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 16, 2021

Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit allowed Florida’s action, even though, the Gallardos maintain, the Florida Supreme Court and other state and federal courts would not. That money would come from a portion of the settlement fund meant to pay for both past and future medical care. In Gallardo v. Castañon v. United States.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 25, 2021

In my torts class, we discuss sports torts and defenses. The Cubs have not been so shocked since Steve Bartman reached out and interfered with Cubs outfielder Moises Alou catching the ball with the Florida Marlins in 2003. That issue came up in an interesting case involving the Chicago Cubs.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2024

This year, it is already producing its share of spooky torts. As a torts professor, I try to walk the line between a fun attraction and an attractive nuisance. After all, what can go wrong with a holiday celebrated at night with millions in ill-fitting costumes handing out tons of foodstuffs to strangers? well … oversized.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 21, 2023

Stories about climate change and insurance dominate the news , as insurer after insurer pulls out of markets like Florida and California that are at high risk of climate change-driven catastrophes. Climate litigation is a broad and rapidly changing risk, however, and current industry modelling techniques struggle to capture its full scope.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 12, 2022

A novel lawsuit in Florida has been filed by the parents of Gabby Petito against the parents of Brian Laundrie, Chris and Roberta Laundrie. Brian Laundrie reportedly returned to his parents’ home in Florida on Sept. Regents of University of California , which I teach in my torts class. North Port (FL) Police Department.

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Above The Law

MARCH 28, 2023

What are firms supposed to do when their opponents are trying to put them out of business? The post Massive Plaintiffs Law Firm Decides To Play Hardball With Insurance Industry appeared first on Above the Law.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Willett also argued that the case would be foreclosed by Claiborne Hardware , and that the 5th Circuit panel decision would have imposed tort liability on protest leaders ranging from the Founding-Era Sons of Liberty to Martin Luther King. Florida and Moore v. relisted after the Nov. 19 and Feb. 1 conference) Hamm v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The appellate court also agreed with the court below that it was not appropriate to recognize a new tort of “intentional investment in abnormally dangerous activities” advocated by the plaintiffs on behalf of future generations. Three environmental groups challenging a natural gas pipeline from Alabama to Florida asked the D.C.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 26, 2021

While one could debate the news value of the legal memos, the contents of the diary would be considered newsworthy under current torts standards governing civil liability. Moreover, the New York Times itself acknowledged that Ashley Biden left her diary with some clothes in a house in Delray, Florida when she moved to Philadelphia.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

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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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. She also threatened another woman with a carving knife.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Florida Southern District Court. Giuffre insists that Prince Andrew is not covered in the agreement, which was connected to the controversial resolution of the charges in Florida against Epstein. ” That does create a credible threshold defense and a tough question for the court. .

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 12, 2022

Florida Southern District Court. Prince Andrew lost a major ruling in his litigation with Virginia Giuffre (née Roberts), who claims that the Duke of York sexually assaulted her as part of the sex trafficking crimes of the late Jeffrey Epstein.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 4, 2023

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2024

In my torts class, we discuss retraction statutes and the requirements of time and clarity. Under Florida’s Section 770.02(1), ” This is relatively new ground for the Florida courts and will undoubtedly be appealed in time. I specifically discussed the CNN case. The report at the heart of the case aired on a Nov.

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Above The Law

AUGUST 31, 2023

* Ron DeSantis rammed through massive tort reform in December to the delight of Florida residents who barely understand torts. They're about to find out what it all means when insurance companies refuse to pay up for Idalia. People ] * NY AG says Trump overinflated his net worth by upwards of $2.2

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

.” The filing is a Jackson Pollock of legal claims with twelve claims thrown against Florida from false imprisonment to intentional infliction of emotional distress to misuse of the Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund. The filing of a lawsuit upon entry to the United States is not unprecedented, of course. which was completely false.”

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The court said the laws’ provision for criminal or tort liability for advising, encouraging, or soliciting persons participating in a riot to acts of force or violence was overbroad and vague. 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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ALPS

AUGUST 11, 2021

This is one of the things I say to students all the time, “You’re coming to us not only to learn about contracts and torts, you’re coming to learn how to become a future professional. Where it’s like, “Oh my gosh, that torts professor’s a real person.” And this really sucks right now.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 29, 2025

To refresh: Trumps favorite jurist, Judge Aileen Cannon of the Southern District of Florida, used the pending appeal as justification to bury half of Special Counsel Jack Smiths final report. But its an exceptional f**k you in light of everything that happened in the past three weeks.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 17, 2024

It further stated that “Beyond the work email, the profile lists Moreno’s correct date of birth, while geolocation data indicates that the account was set up for use in a part of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where property records show Moreno’s parents owned a home at the time. That’s it.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 3, 2021

Indeed, as a torts professor, this could prove the golden age of defamation. It now seems certain that Florida Rep. He now practices in Florida at the firm Beggs & Lane. 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

JANUARY 4, 2022

Giuffre’s attorney David Boies has suggested that the agreement would not include Prince Andrew because he was not subject to any litigation or allegations in Florida where it was finalized. While the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

Florida Appellate Court Affirmed Dismissal of Young People’s Climate Case. On May 24, 2021, the mandate issued for the Second Circuit’s judgment affirming dismissal of New York City’s tort law-based case against fossil fuel companies. May 24, 2021). Chevron Corp. City of Oakland , No. 20-1089 (U.S.). City of New York v. May 24, 2021).

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