Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 20, 2022

Laurie Fields is a transplanted Midwesterner from Indiana to the Arizona desert in 1972. She worked in larger firms in the downtown Phoenix area for past Presidents of the American Trial Lawyer’s Association, specializing in tort law. And don’t forget to share your lessons learned with other paralegals. Meet the Author.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Arguments of the State of Indiana. Indiana Solicitor General Thomas Fisher argued in support of HHC. Thomas Fisher argues for the state of Indiana. FNHRA’s text shows Congress wanted to preserve all remedies — private state tort remedies, enforcement by the U.S. William Hennessy). That framing “gets the statute backwards.”

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 16, 2021

There is an interesting lawsuit out of Indiana where Indianapolis Metro Police Department Officer De’Joure Mercer is suing the National Football League (NFL) for defamation after the NFL claimed that his shooting of an African American man was due to “systemic racism.” Screenshot from federal complaint.

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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. He then fled.———————————————————.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 4, 2023

We have implemented this for Indiana, Massachusetts, and California so far, and will have all opinions completed within 45-60 days. Target customer: Lexamica works with all sizes of law firms from large plaintiff firms in single event mass torts to solos who need access to a trustworthy network of peers to refer cases to.

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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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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 11, 2024

Joseph County, Indiana, Superior Court under Indiana’s Anti-SLAPP law. The complaint does not appear particularly compelling.” ” According to Justice Steven David, that may have been understated. The case was dismissed this week by St.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Issue : Whether the discretionary function exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act immunizes the United States from tort liability for acts taken by its employees in violation of the Constitution. The case is Does v. These and other petitions of the week are below: Wright v. United States. Bridgeton Landfill, LLC.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

The amicus briefs were filed by American Petroleum Institute, National Association of Manufacturers, the Chamber of Congress of the United States of America, and 18 states, led by Indiana. The petitioners argued that currently unoccupied bat habitat cleared for the pipeline would no longer be suitable for future use by the bat.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2021

The second “Count Five” is actually just a demand for punitive damages, rather than an actual separate tort. There are actually six “counts” listed but there are two count fives in the complaint. The first five counts are: COUNT ONE (Directing Assault and Battery). COUNT TWO (Aiding and Abetting Assault and Battery).

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