JonathanTurley

AUGUST 8, 2023

It appears that, whatever the value of being an Oberlin graduate may be today, the value of being an Oberlin lawyer is virtually limitless. However, Cornell Professor William Jacobson has speculated that the companies will continue to decline on the basis of the college engaging in intentional torts.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The letter was sent by the new lawyer for Holden and his parents Shannon and Raul Armenta. In that case, a journalist with Forbes was sued for harsh characterizations of a lawyer and his practice. In New York Times v. It also turns out that he is Native American. In Wilkow v. Forbes, Inc., 3d 552 (7th Cir.

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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. Craigslist, Inc. ,

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JonathanTurley

MAY 13, 2021

His lawyer, Michael Elliott, insists that he was on his way to surrender to police when he was picked up. ” It appears that D may stand for Deandre and the lawyer believes that D is involved in the illegal exotic animal trade. He is facing both criminal and potential tort liability for the tiger incident.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Perhaps our Colorado lawyers can correct me if I am reading this wrong). In New York Times v. (II) Invoking action by a third party, including but not limited to, the state or any of its political subdivisions, whose interests are not substantially related to the interests pursued by the person making the threat.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The court cited Healey’s participation in the AGs United for Clean Power Press Conference in March 2016 and her attendance at a pre-press conference closed-door meeting with a climate change activist and a lawyer with a “well-known global warming litigation practice.” Healey , No. 4:16 -cv-00469 (N.D. 14-72553 (9th Cir.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 11, 2024

The Supreme Court has given the press added “breathing room” with the higher standard of proof found in cases such as New York Times v. Defamation lawsuits are fairly common for major media, including like the recent settlements of Fox with Dominion and NBC and various outlets with high school student Nicholas Sandmann.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 26, 2021

The Christmas Eve order for the New York Times to return confidential legal material from the conservative publication, Project Veritas, has led many to decry the imposition of a “prior restraint” on the media. One question, however, remains: when will the FBI raid the home of New York Times publisher, A.G. Sulzberger ?

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

That issue would have to be decided by the Supreme Court however given the prior ruling in New York Times v. Here is the column: In a trial in New York, federal judge Jed S. The New York Times. Either way, in Rakoff’s courtroom it would read the same: no liability for the New York Times.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Conversely, New York charged a woman for calling police in a racially charged incident in Central Park. We also discussed a torts case involving a delay in calling police, but that case involved people who were deemed partially responsible for a death. In torts, there is no duty to rescue rule. Bigan , 397 Pa.

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ALPS

AUGUST 11, 2021

I’ll give you the official introduction to Janet, but from a personal standpoint, Janet and I have been sort of on the front lines of working in this area, gosh, Janet, I don’t know, six, seven years starting back with the ABA’s Commission on Lawyer’s Assistance Programs. Janet has been a true leader in that space.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

In New York Times v. Two justices have indicated that they might be open to the idea of revisiting New York Times v. Notably, the media, including the New York Times and CNN , have lost key court battles in defamation cases. Those cases also could bring a new review of the public figure standard.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

During jury selection, the foreman had said he was a self-published author, but Shockleys lawyers didnt ask him about it. Shockleys attorneys still demanded a new trial, arguing that the foreman might have been biased against him. The request for a new trial was denied. Shockley hired new lawyers to represent him.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

There is a major development in the Sarah Palin defamation case where a jury recently rejected her claims against the New York Times. The case concerns an editorial by the New York Times where it sought to paint Palin and other Republicans as inciting the earlier shooting. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz was seriously injured.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Halloween today more often summon contingency lawyers by the gross. If there is a holy holiday for personal injury lawyers it is Halloween with its mix of slip-and-falls, food liability, and costume defects. This year, it is already producing its share of spooky torts. So welcome to the most hallowed holiday for lawyers.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 26, 2024

Sullivan , a partner at Early Sullivan Wright Gizer & McRae LLP , who is the lawyer of Kevin Morris (who is the lawyer for Hunter Biden). In his letter, Sullivan attacks my reference to ethics rules as unworthy of a professor as well as “blatantly misleading and just bad lawyering.” Rule 1.8.5(b) c), and 1.8.1

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 20, 2022

Actio pauliana can neither be characterised as an issue relating to torts nor as a right in rem in immovable property. Yun Zhao, “ The Singapore mediation convention: A version of the New York convention for mediation?” This article argues that the students have much the better of the argument.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

After Mark Longo and Daniela Bittner posted cute pictures of Peanut on social media as their companion and friend, New York officials from the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) raided their home on Oct. Now the family is lawyering up. Peanut even appeared in my torts class this term, posthumously, of course.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 6, 2023

She asserted claims in tort and under the Australian Consumer Law ( ACL ) in schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) ( CCA ) against companies behind the ship: Carnival plc and its subsidiary, Princess Cruise Lines Ltd (together, Princess ). Australia’s plaintiff-focuses class action lawyers should be licking their lips.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 12, 2023

” Their lawyers are reportedly preparing an anti-SLAPP motion to dismiss, claiming that Kay is seeking to curtail and intimidate student journalists. A review of the complaint raises more questions than answers on the basis for this rare lawsuit against student journalists. ” She is also seeking punitive damages.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

However, he was then found guilty in a torts lawsuit brought by the Goldman family and ordered to pay $33.5 The risk of such torts actions is that they proceed under a lower standard of proof. If a court finds such a status, he would be subject to a higher standard of proof under New York Times v.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 24, 2020

’Tis the season for the Christmas tort. For lawyers, Christmas remains a horn-of-plenty for the practice of law. Thus, each year we gather for the posting of the annual list of Christmas torts and crimes. This false imprisonment tort however addressed by a relocation to a forest and the owl appeared entirely without counsel.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Below is an expanded version of my column in the New York Post on the return of Halloween and joy of little litigators in anticipation of the return of the festival of Samhain. The result is a wicked brew of negligence, product defects, intentional torts, and every other tort and crime known above the netherworld.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

as Health Chief Excites Mass Tort Lawyers Eager to Sue." [ Bloomberg Law News ] * King & Spalding practice chief just horsing around. Next stop: Ocean's 11 style heist! [ And in another 20 years, due to the Supreme Court, they'll be less diverse but still very much more in debt. [ ABA Journal ] * "RFK Jr.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 27, 2021

The Project recently won a significant victory in defeating such a motion from the New York Times. 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. Project Veritas has been accused of misleading edits or accounts.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 31, 2021

As someone who has taught defamation torts for thirty years, the Trump Administration has been a bonanza of such cases and controversies. The group participated a disgraceful campaign of intimidation against lawyers and law firms that began soon after the election, including alleged efforts to dox or troll people with opposing views.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more.

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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. Some 1,800 ate the catered meal.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 23, 2021

On April 1, 2021, a unanimous Second Circuit panel dismissed a lawsuit filed by New York City against a handful of fossil fuel companies seeking damages for climate change harms under state public nuisance and trespass law. By Michael Burger *. Photo by Alexander Tsang – Unsplash.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

On October 19, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals denied a natural gas pipeline developer’s petition for panel rehearing or rehearing en banc of its ruling that upheld the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s (NYSDEC’s) denial of a water quality certificate for the pipeline. National Academy of Sciences , No.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 6, 2023

Virginia Canter, a former government ethics lawyer who served in administrations of both parties, said Thomas “seems to have completely disregarded his higher ethical obligations.” In 2011, The New York Times reported on Crow’s generosity toward the justice. Crow has long supported efforts to move the judiciary to the right.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The lawsuit strikes me as meritless under governing tort doctrines. Torts cases of defamation often turn common understanding of such expression as jokes or opinion. The lawsuit not only contradicts governing case law but threatens constitutional protections for free speech and the free press in seeking such tort relief.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

Hochul , involving New York State’s mandate that health care workers must have received a COVID-19 vaccination to remain on the job. Monsanto had argued that FIFRA labeling provisions preempted state tort causes of action for failure to warn. First up is Dr. A v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 4, 2022

As a public figure, he is subject to the standard created in New York Times v. 2001) where a journalist with Forbes was sued for harsh characterizations of a lawyer and his practice. In a 5-4 decision, Chief Justice Warren wrote a concurrence that extended the ruling in New York Times v. Forbes, Inc.,

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 5, 2023

I recently testified on that new evidence. Even if Jankowicz is seriously thinking of suing Fox News, she faces a considerable factual and legal challenges. Under 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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