JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Below is my column in the Wall Street Journal on the ongoing opioid litigation and an important ruling out of the Oklahoma Supreme Court. ” The Oklahoma Supreme Court last week struck down a $465 million opioid award against Johnson & Johnson based on a legal theory that has previously been tried and failed against guns.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Ferguson involves a First Amendment challenge to Washington state’s law prohibiting “conversion therapy,” the practice of seeking to change a gay or transgender person’s sexual orientation or gender identity through counseling. A federal district court in North Carolina ultimately invalidated much of the law, and the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Yes, the statute really does have a full cite to the opinion in it. The California state law at issue in Flagstar Bank v. Kivett , and the New York state law in Cantero v. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit held that the California law requiring escrow interest was not preempted by the National Bank Act.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Brownback , involving whether the Federal Tort Claims Act’s “judgment bar,” which bars any claim based on the same subject matter as a dismissed FTCA case, applies when both the actions were originally brought together. The Supreme Court did not grant review in any new cases since our last installment. In Cargill , the en banc U.S.

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