JonathanTurley

JULY 27, 2024

” The Ohio Supreme Court just ruled that selling a boneless chicken dish does not mean that it is boneless because it is referring to a “cooking style not a guarantee.” ” In my torts class, I teach food contamination and liability cases. 2019-Ohio-2401, ¶ 67 (DeWine, J., REKM L.L.C.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

1] He is also an adjunct professor at American University Washington College of Law. ten years ago—at least in part due to longstanding common law rules on champerty, maintenance, [3] and patent law’s relative high risk—today third-party litigation funding (TPLF) [4] undergirds about 30% of all patent litigation, by conservative estimates. [5]

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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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Constitutional Law Reporter

JANUARY 26, 2023

The Ohio Adjutant General’s Department v. Federal Labor Relations Authority: The case stems from a collective-bargaining dispute between the Ohio National Guard and the union that represents its technicians. The post SCOTUS Kicks Off February Session With Four Cases appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Demo video: [link] Founded: 5/1/2023, Columbus, Ohio Target customer: Solo, small firm, and legal Aid organizations that are engaged in litigation. AltFee Elevator Pitch: AltFee revolutionizes law firm pricing by offering a foundation for alternative fee structures. Price: Monthly subscriptions based on usage at $89, $249, and $649.

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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. The court rejected Exxon’s argument that it could withhold documents based on an accountant-client privilege under Texas law. and non-U.S. Avista Corp.

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Bloomberg Law News ] * Quinn Emanuel and Latham both earn benchslappings unsealed. Ohio Capital Journal ] * Folks want digital payments for mass torts, which is so logical I'm sure it will be fought tooth and nail by the courts. appeared first on Above the Law. appeared first on Above the Law.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2021

However, in 1908’s Ex parte Young , the Supreme Court allowed suits against state officials, in lieu of states themselves, for violations of federal law. After New Jersey passed legislation in 2018 to withdraw from the compact, the waterfront commission sued the New Jersey governor to prevent him from enforcing the law. United States.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The thirty-seventh annual survey on choice of law in the American courts is now available on SSRN. Choice of Law The Eighth Circuit applied Mexican law to a suit against General Motors over a car crash in Mexico, while an Ohio state court applied South African law to invalidate a marriage. In Bartlett v.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 6, 2021

We have previously discussed animal liability in torts. If litigated, the state’s nuanced dog liability laws would come into effect. It is often said the every dog gets one free bite in American torts. Pennsylvania has a quirky set of laws. She was watching the dogs for her roommate. Rosenberry v. Evans, 48 A.3d

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 15, 2022

Share Under established constitutional law, states may generally not tax or regulate property or operations of the federal government. A 1936 federal law waives federal immunity from state workers’ compensation laws on federal land and projects. This principle is known as intergovernmental immunity. Washington.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 26, 2023

Foreman, a rapper also known as “Afroman,” is the subject of a filing in Ohio (below) by seven police officers alleging that he has misused their images to sell merchandise and place them in a false light. However, in this case, the officers are not alleging privacy torts like intrusion upon seclusion.

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Opioid litigation has proceeded like a locomotive in part because of Judge Dan Aaron Polster, a federal jurist in Ohio who has been given control of some 2,000 federal cases from across the country under the multidistrict litigation system. The company and the Oklahoma justices are right on the law.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2024

This year, it is already producing its share of spooky torts. This year, another woman in Ohio took a more direct approach in Toledo, Ohio. As a torts professor, I try to walk the line between a fun attraction and an attractive nuisance. well … oversized. So welcome to the most hallowed holiday for lawyers.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 26, 2025

Congress passed the law to create a national framework for congressional and presidential elections. The law sets specific rules for campaign spending and gives the Federal Election Commission (FEC) broad power to regulate elections under those rules. In its landmark 1976 ruling in Buckley v.

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Patently O

MARCH 16, 2021

Guest Post by Michael Weinberg, Executive Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at NYU Law and the Board President of the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) and David Wechsler, a 3L at NYU Law. The doctrine of inducement infringement in intellectual property law is no different.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 3, 2021

This is the flip side to lethal-force cases such as last month’s shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant , 16, in Columbus, Ohio, in which Officer Nicholas Reardon used lethal force to stop the stabbing of another girl. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 19, 2022

On October 5, 2021, the site Above the Law ran a story by Senior editor Kathryn Rubino about what she described as a vehemently racist law student who was given a prestigious clerkship by William H. Above the Law has a long history of attacking conservatives , free speech advocates , and others deemed right of center.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Abbott , involving a challenge to the use of nonmutual offensive collateral estoppel to hold that issues resolved in bellwether tort trials bind the defendant in later cases. There, a judge held that chemical giant du Pont was bound by legal determinations made in three trials involving the discharge of acid into the Ohio River.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The most obvious form of civil liability would be some type of tort action. Moreover, arguing that these speakers induced violence under another form of tort liability would be quickly rejected under the First Amendment. It would also not pass constitutional muster, in my view. This would fail for the same reason. In Brandenburg v.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether the Penobscot Nation has regulatory authority over the Penobscot River or only over certain islands in the river, and how broadly to construe the combatant-services exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act. In Penobscot Nation v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 23, 2025

The states also allege that suits involving the interstate effects of pollution are exclusively governed by federal common law and belong in federal court to avoid the risk of inconsistent judgments. Relisted after the Jan. 10 and Jan. 17 conferences.)

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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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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2025

But in response to legal challenges, Congress amended the law in 2022 to give the FTC the power to make changes to the authoritys rules. They argued that the law was unconstitutional because it delegated federal power to a private company a concept known as the private nondelegation doctrine. The en banc 4th Circuit upheld the law.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The controversial former aide to Special Counsel Robert Mueller (and NYU law professor) is being sued after declaring that attorney Stefan Passantino coached former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson to lie before Congress. Weissmann has succeeded in appealing to the echo chamber in the media and at New York University Law School.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2021

In my view, the lawsuit contravenes free speech as well as controlling case law from the Supreme Court. The second “Count Five” is actually just a demand for punitive damages, rather than an actual separate tort. That claim runs directly counter to the controlling case law. In Brandenburg v.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The 9th Circuit concluded that RFRA did not change that outcome because Congress passed the law against the backdrop of that decision. Revisiting the Feres doctrine The Federal Tort Claims Act waives U.S. The government and Resolution Mining urge the justices to leave the 9th Circuits ruling in place. Relisted after the Dec.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

They prefer to falsely vilify the Democratic opposition and President Biden’s “crime family” while blaming an imaginary “deep state” and very real federal and state judicial departments for “weaponizing” the discriminatory wheels of law enforcement against the former president.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 28, 2021

Grimm , leaves in place a lower-court ruling that found that a Virginia school district violated federal law when it barred students from using the restrooms that align with their gender identities. citizen to receive a benefit under state law. The board concluded that Patel had “falsely represented” that he was a U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

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. Second Circuit Rejected New York City’s State Law Climate Claims Against Oil Companies. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Koati. and non-U.S. 3d 849 (9th Cir.

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