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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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Swalwell is a lawyer with a degree from the University of Maryland Law School. Swalwell is equally mistaken in his analogies to the medical and legal professions. American torts have long required consent in torts. Clients and Legal Consent. Swalwell is missing is called informed consent. Chatz , 639 N.E.2d

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 29, 2021

Maryland , 20-101. rescheduled before the Oct. 11 conferences; relisted after the Jan. 26, March 5, March 19, March 26, April 1, April 16 and April 23 conferences). United States , 20-559. Issues : (1) Whether Feres v.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 3, 2021

At the time, I wrote that if someone sued over the resulting mayhem, Durkan and Seattle could find themselves clinging to the very legal doctrine they denounced in police brutality cases: immunity. Rioters took over a police station and were allowed to occupy an entire section of the city. In 1855, the Supreme Court ruled in South v.

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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

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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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 11, 2023

It then concluded with respect to the Hymes/Harwayne-Gidansky suit that the Dodd-Frank language quoted above simply codified the pre-existing legal standard and held their claims preempted. Maryland and Napue v. Nelson ,…517 U.S. Yes, the statute really does have a full cite to the opinion in it. ” (relisted after the Sept.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) authorization of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from three facilities in Louisiana, Maryland, and Texas. The court also dismissed defamation and related state tort claims. Energy & Environment Legal Institute v. In an unpublished decision, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The court said the laws’ provision for criminal or tort liability for advising, encouraging, or soliciting persons participating in a riot to acts of force or violence was overbroad and vague. Maryland Appellate Court Said Residents Lacked Standing to Challenge Update to Master Plan. County of Butte v. C071785 (Cal.

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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. Two years ago, when the Supreme Court denied review on a petition questioning the legality of that practice, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Sonia Sotomayor dissented. Writing for the majority, Judge J.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 23, 2021

.” What is most interesting about this lawsuit is how it is arguably meritless under both tort and constitutional law. However, there has been little pushback from a host of lawyers who have spent months calling for sanctions against Republican lawyers for filing lawsuits viewed legally or factually meritless.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

On May 28, the Maryland state court hearing Baltimore’s case stayed the proceedings pending the Fourth Circuit’ review of the defendants’ other grounds for appeal. Challenge to Biological Opinion for Oil and Gas Activity in Gulf of Mexico Will Remain in Maryland Federal Court. Justice Alito did not take part in the case. 19-1189 (U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

Anne Arundel County, Maryland filed a motion in federal court in Maryland to remand its case to state court. Animal Legal Defense Fund v. The MPF brought a tort case against de Rezende for causing the deforestation of 2,488.56 Mayor & City Council of Baltimore v. BP p.l.c. , 19-1644 (4th Cir. June 22, 2021).

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

The court concluded that it lacked jurisdiction because administrative appeals that raised the same legal issues were still pending before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Maryland Appellate Court Allowed Redaction of Attorney General’s Application to Participate in Special Assistant AG Program. Frosh , No. City of Annapolis v.

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