Above The Law

MAY 18, 2022

* Focus, Gov: Hawaii law prevents Governor from moonlighting for Uber as a side gig. While it is hard to beat learning torts in pajamas, law students still prefer the real thing. Iowa law mandates ethanol increase in fuel. Digital Music News ]. appeared first on Above the Law. Star Advertiser ]. About time.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2025

Konan to determine whether the Federal Tort Claims Act provision exempting claims arising from the loss or miscarriage of letters or postal matter extends to claims that the Post Office deliberately refused to deliver mail to an address. The Supreme Court made short work of two of last weeks first-time relists. But on appeal, the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Sarah Palin (R) against the New York Times, a lawsuit that could have far reaching implications for defamation law in the United States. The trial concerns an editorial by the New York Times where it sought to paint Palin and other Republicans as inciting the earlier shooting. Sullivan standard. Sullivan.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

It also previewed its coming integration of Casetext CoCounsel as an AI legal assistant across multiple TR products, including Westlaw Precision, Practical Law, Document Intelligence, and HighQ. starting with the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Precision customers at no extra cost. Now we know more details.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 7, 2025

The Japanese Yearbook of International Law (JYIL) is a leading reference publication that provides in-depth analysis and commentary on developments in international law from a Japanese perspective. 180) Takami Hayashi Conflict-of-Law Issues Regarding Succession Substitutes with a Focus on Trusts (p. xxxix, 302.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 29, 2024

After reading and reviewing a thought-provoking book on the choice of law in international commercial contracts in Indonesia last year, I decided to delve further into the subject by picking up a book on Indonesian private international law. However, Indonesia does not have a comprehensive code on private international law.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 12, 2021

Below is my column in the Hill newspaper on the declaration of a gun violence emergency by New York Gov. The centerpiece of Cuomo’s plan is a new law to allow victims of gun violence to sue gun manufacturers under a nuisance theory. It has failed repeatedly in various states, including New York. Of the $138.7

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Many of these cases asserted nuisance and other tort law claims. More recently, states and municipalities have asserted claims under consumer protection laws.). The court distinguished the Second Circuit’s decision in City of New York v. Chevron Corp. Chevron Corp.

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LawSites

AUGUST 9, 2022

As states seek to find innovative ways to address the access-to-justice crisis, a key component has been eliminating or loosening the prohibition on non-lawyer ownership of law firms. as they relate to nonlawyer ownership of law firms, the unauthorized practice of law, or any other subject.”.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 14, 2021

Arguing that “transparency of the judicial process is central to the rule of law,” the ACLU asks the justices for review. United States , a case of statutory interpretation over the 2018 First Step Act, which Congress passed in part to make retroactive a 2010 law that reduced the sentencing disparity between crack cocaine and power cocaine.

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The Fashion Law

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The post Linda Evangelista Files Products Liability, Fraud Suit Over Cosmetic Procedure That Destroyed Her Quality of Life appeared first on The Fashion Law. Zeltiq Aesthetics, Inc. , 1:21-cv-07889 (SDNY).

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 24, 2023

This post is by Carlos Manuel Vázquez , a professor of law at Georgetown Law School. Supreme Court last summer, the case is now before the Ninth Circuit for decision of the legal question that is likely to be decisive: which law governs? It is cross-posted at Transnational Litigation Blog.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law, and Mitu Gulati, the Perre Bowen Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. Even at the time, it was uncertain whether Venezuelan law authorized the transaction. Sovereign Debt and Choice-of-Law Clauses. Stockton, Jr.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

For torts scholars, it has been a bonanza of interesting issues touching on every element of defamation law. The standard for defamation for public figures and officials in the United States is the product of a decision decades ago in New York Times v. Notably, Nunes sought to challenge New York Times v.

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The IP Law Blog

MAY 12, 2022

West’s lawyer claims that the producers have committed the tort of false light invasion of privacy by creating a false impression about Mr. West that is highly offensive and injurious to his reputation and have also defamed Mr. West by attributing acts of rage to him that he never committed. In Fairstein v.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 21, 2021

The New York Times is reporting that a Rutgers Law Professor and law student are under fire after the student reluctantly read the n-word in a 1993 legal opinion. That triggers a petition from students to demand action from the law school and apologies from both the professor and the student.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MAY 13, 2022

In January 2014, petitioner Larry Thompson was living with his fiancée (now wife) and their newborn baby in an apartment in Brooklyn, New York. Thompson’s sister-in-law, who apparently suffered from a mental illness, called 911 to report that Thompson was sexually abusing the baby. Facts of the Case.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 14, 2024

In the first months of 2024, legislators in four states— Maryland , Massachusetts , New York , and Vermont —have pushed for legislation that would collectively require large fossil fuel producers and refiners to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of state-level climate adaptation infrastructure. Constitution.”

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 6, 2024

CNN’s new motion for summary judgment raised eyebrows in citing Sharia law to say that what Young was doing in rescuing people was unlawful under Islamic restrictions. The damages in the case could be massive but Young had to satisfy the higher New York Times v. CNN recently lost a recent major ruling from Judge L.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 13, 2021

The standard for defamation for public figures and officials in the United States is the product of a decision decades ago in New York Times v. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. In Neiman-Marcus v. Confidential.”

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InHouseOps

JULY 16, 2021

As a result, litigation under privacy laws protecting individuals’ biometric information has exploded. In January, a group of New York state legislators introduced a biometrics regulation bill that contains a private right of action similar to the already enacted Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA).

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 23, 2024

It evidently has not stopped claimants from seeking enforcement of punitive damage awards in other civil law legal systems. In his paper on “Compensation, Punishment, and the Idea of Private Law”, Lukas Rademacher (University of Kiel) explained the idea of punitive damages and its compatibility with German private law.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 23, 2021

The standard for defamation for public figures and officials in the United States is the product of a decision over 50 years ago in New York Times v. The New York Times had run an advertisement referring to abuses of civil rights marchers and the arrest of Martin Luther King Jr. seven times. seven times.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The standard for defamation for public figures and officials in the United States is the product of a decision decades ago in New York Times v. 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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LawSites

JULY 7, 2022

Is the judge influenced by the prestige of the firm, the law schools of the lawyers, their political affiliations, or the nature of the company? But it plans to expand to cover other types of motions, such as summary judgment, and to include state courts, with California, New York and Texas already in development.

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Patently O

MARCH 12, 2021

I teach Introduction to Intellectual Property Law every spring semester, an experience that often causes me to reflect on some of the fundamental premises of intellectual property law in a way that advanced courses don’t necessarily always invite. I grew up steeped in the world of property law.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 2, 2022

The massive verdict in favor of actor Johnny Depp yesterday constitutes a rare victory of a public figure under the difficult New York Times v. The defamation laws are far more advantageous for defendants in the UK and most plaintiffs try to litigate such claims in the U.S. YouTube screengrab. Sullivan standard for defamation.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 14, 2021

Maud Maron is a public interest lawyer who is now at the center of a firestorm in New York. A mother of four who graduated from Cardozo Law School and became a public defender with the Legal Aid Society. This growing intolerance for free speech has even reached law schools, as discussed in a column this week.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The standard for defamation for public figures and officials in the United States is the product of a decision decades ago in New York Times v. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. For Civil Rights Under Law, Inc.

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Conflict of Laws

JULY 5, 2021

Choice of law by the testator is particularly important and a notary should point not only at the present situation, but also at possible developments in the future. The position of the surviving spouse under § 1371 BGB in German law has become a highly debated subject and here the aspect of free movement of persons is highlighted.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 21, 2024

In my torts class, we discuss the often uncertain line between ordinary citizens and public figures. In New York Times v. I have previously written about the continuing questions over the inclusion of the public figures with public officials in tort actions. As New York Times v. Croce sued for $200,000.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Missouri does not appear to have a formal retraction law, but it is still considered a necessary step. Judge Frank Easterbrook wrote that “although the article drips with disapproval of Wilkow’s (and the judges’) conduct, an author’s opinion about business ethics isn’t defamatory under Illinois law.” In New York Times v.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 13, 2021

He is facing both criminal and potential tort liability for the tiger incident. Notably, according to the New York Post, there were also two monkeys living with Cuevas in the house but that is not itself unlawful. On the tort side, Cuevas is liable for any injuries caused by a wild animal in his possession.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JUNE 17, 2022

Border Patrol agent, that a Turkish national, arriving in Seattle by way of New York, had scheduled transportation to Smuggler’s Inn. Boule filed a grievance with Agent Egbert’s supervisors and an ad- ministrative claim with Border Patrol pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA).

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

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. New York Court Ordered Exxon and Its Accountant to Comply with Attorney General’s Subpoena. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. Healey , No.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 15, 2022

There is a bizarre political controversy out of Colorado that may raise some interesting defamation and criminal law questions. In New York Times v. Both the Colorado GOP and Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) are calling for Democrat Adam Frisch to withdraw from the race. Universal Citation: CO Rev Stat § 18-3-207 (2016). (1)

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 14, 2022

That led to the question of whether the couple should be treated as mere peasants (private individuals) or the royalty of defamation law (public figures). In New York Times v. I have previously written about the continuing questions over the inclusion of the public figures with public officials in tort actions.

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