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. The Black Attorneys of Legal Aid Caucus issued a lengthy statement that declared “Maud is racist, and openly so.”

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 7, 2025

Published by the International Law Association of Japan since 1957 (originally as the Annual Yearbook of Private International Law until 2007), the JYIL covers a broad spectrum of topics, from public and private international law to comparative law, bringing together insights from top scholars and legal experts in Japan and beyond.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 29, 2024

Indonesia, a civil law country, has legal principles influenced by Dutch traditional private international law, owing to its colonial history. The chapter further discusses the law applicable to specific torts, including negligence, nuisance, wrongful interference with goods, defamation, and environmental damage and pollution.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

But the bonds include a choice-of-law clause designating the law of New York. Does this mean that validity is to be determined under New York law? Arguably, the debt contravenes domestic law, although the government may obtain legal opinions affirming its validity. The bondholders want their collateral.

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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

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. Such an action would be highly unlikely to succeed.

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Patently O

MARCH 12, 2021

My father’s law office was in rural New York, and his core practice involved representing farmers, villages, and small businesses on land transactions, estate planning, and probate matters. The limitations in patent claims aren’t like the boundaries defined in a deed; instead, they are like the elements of a tort.

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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. Rademacher then analysed whether punitive elements could be found in German tort law. She pointed out that although parliament abolished punitive damages in certain areas of law (e.g. Barnard [1964] AC 1129.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 14, 2022

It is a curious defense because it is not a legal defense. In New York Times v. In recent public statements , Heard insists that “I never named him, rather I wrote about the price women pay for speaking against men in power.” ” Her counsel emphasized that fact in their opening arguments.

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LawSites

JULY 7, 2022

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. Rabinowitz is a lawyer who practiced as an associate in Sidley LLP’s Supreme Court & Appellate and Mass Tort Litigation groups.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 8, 2023

That does not include the millions for the college’s own legal costs, which will now increase further with the lawsuit against the insurance companies. 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

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

MAY 13, 2021

A story in Houston has everything you would want in a legal controversy: a murder, a mysterious figure known only as “D”, a missing Bengal tiger named India and even Carole Baskin of Tiger King fame. He is facing both criminal and potential tort liability for the tiger incident. Cuevas’ bond now is revoked.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 24, 2023

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? After it was taken in Germany, the painting spent some time in California and Missouri and was subsequently sold to Baron Von Thyssen-Bornemisza by a Gallery in New York.

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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. It is the latest such controversy in high education. I am assuming that the professor and students were discussing State v. That does not make them racists.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

New York Court Ordered Exxon and Its Accountant to Comply with Attorney General’s Subpoena. On October 26, 2016, the New York Supreme Court ordered Exxon Mobil Corporation (Exxon) and its accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), to comply with a subpoena issued by the New York Attorney General to PwC in August 2016.

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Conflict of Laws

JULY 5, 2021

The CJEU (Grand Chamber) has issued a landmark ruling on the borderline between contract and tort disputes under Article 7(1) and (2) of the Brussels I-bis Regulation. According to the established case law of the Swiss Federal Tribunal, this binding approach does not conflict with the New York Convention either. 18/17592.

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InHouseOps

JULY 16, 2021

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). As a result, litigation under privacy laws protecting individuals’ biometric information has exploded.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 15, 2022

In New York Times v. Here is the criminal extortion statute: 18-3-207. Criminal extortion – aggravated extortion. Universal Citation: CO Rev Stat § 18-3-207 (2016). (1) On his side, Gardner can always claim “truth as a defense” if, as reported, he has proof to support the claim.

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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. For full disclosure, while I worked twice for NBC/MSNBC, I now work as a legal analyst for Fox Corp. This duel of conflicting evidence must be resolved by a jury….

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 29, 2024

Over the years, I have written repeatedly ( here , here , here , here , and here ) about the interesting defamation case brought by Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, agains the New York Times. He has now been reversed again and Palin will have a new opportunity to sue the newspaper.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 6, 2023

Work stoppages at iconic companies like John Deere, The New York Times, and Kellogg’s. The Washington Supreme Court dismissed the case, finding that it wasn’t appropriate to apply state tort law to a labor dispute covered by a federal law, the National Labor Relations Act. Share Striketober. Starbucks walkouts.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2023

At the same time, the dispute also raises broader questions about whether and when it is appropriate to resolve mass tort cases – that is, lawsuits brought by a group of people who have been harmed in a similar way, such as in a plane crash or by a defective product – through the bankruptcy system. And in Sept.

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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. However, there are still some notable additions that raise more legal frights. 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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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.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2022

It eventually travelled to New York and then to Saint Louis, Missouri, where it remained until 1976. Second, the brief draws an analogy to the Federal Tort Claims Act, which subjects the federal government to certain tort claims “in the same manner and to the same extent as a private individual.” 1605(a)(3) ).

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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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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 8, 2021

A couple of bizarre recent cases raise a question that we occasionally discuss in my torts class: the liability for suicidal acts, particularly jumping from buildings. This week, a 31-year-old man jumped from a high-rise in Jersey City, New Jersey and landed on a BMW. RESTATEMENT (SECOND) TORTS § 283A (AM.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Below is my column in the Hill on New York’s latest gun control measure — and the latest challenge to a New York law. What is most striking in reviewing the line of gun cases coming out of New York is that the Empire State has done more for gun rights than any “pro-gun” state.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

United States District Judge Laura Taylor Swain issued a ruling in New York to apply Virginia’s choice of law standard that in turn applied California’s defamation laws. He is facing criminal charges in New York. In my torts class, I teach defamation and often discuss the California retraction law.

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ALPS

AUGUST 11, 2021

For those of you who are new to the podcast, our goal is pretty simple. It’s to introduce you to thought leaders doing meaningful work in the well-being space within the legal profession and in the process to build and nurture a national network of well-being advocates intent on creating a culture shift within the profession.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

One of the more interesting legal issues is how the law defines “malice.” ” The legislators lifted the definition from New York Times v. Hill , which held that a family suing Life Magazine for false light must shoulder the burden of the actual malice standard under New York Times v.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

Accordingly, the state maintains, Shockleys case doesnt implicate a divide among the circuits on a legal question, merely a difference in internal procedures ancitipated by Congress. It argues that this includes whether to deny them over the dissents of some judges. Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Co.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 2, 2022

We have previously discussed the trial, which began with the introduction of evidence that the New York Times editorial board ignored internal objections to publishing the 2017 column linking Palin to the 2011 shooting in Tucson, Arizona in which then-U.S. There are good-faith concerns over that extension of New York Times v.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 20, 2022

The analysis of two Directives on unfair trading practices in the food supply chain and on the resolution of financial institutions reveals that their explicit legislative characterisations of OMPs can benefit legal certainty if properly drafted by the EU and correctly transposed into national law by the Member States.

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