JonathanTurley

JANUARY 21, 2024

In my torts class, we discuss the often uncertain line between ordinary citizens and public figures. I have previously written about the continuing questions over the inclusion of the public figures with public officials in tort actions. Baseball may be the national pastime, but it and other sports are just that: pastimes.

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SimplyLawJobs

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

If you don’t, or you feel that you could do with some additional training, then the most important element is to gain some knowledge of how the English Legal System works, especially the court system and hierarchy. What if you Already Have a Legal/Paralegal Qualification? How to Begin Your Career in the Legal Industry.

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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

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The reason is that these legislative measure are propelled by political rather than legal judgment. I’ve discussed the New York public nuisance law aimed at gun manufacturers, a law that doubles down on a failed legal theory using torts as a substitute for direct legislative bans or barriers.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For the record, I am a legal analyst for Fox News, though I have spent my entire academic and professional career opposing criminal and civil efforts to punish or chill free speech. The most obvious form of civil liability would be some type of tort action. It would also not pass constitutional muster, in my view.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

As some of you may be aware, last night President Trump signed an Executive Order designating Above the Law as a new agency to stamp out waste in the legal industry. Cold-called in Torts. Follow him on Twitter or Bluesky if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Blacked out.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Circuit to hold the cases in abeyance was to allow the federal district for the District of Columbia to resolve cases challenging NHTSA’s action that raise similar legal issues. The court found that the plaintiff, who did not allege any legally cognizable relationship with the community college, had failed to allege Article III standing.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 25, 2021

Or you watch a football game with friends and try to explain that the cameraman wiped out by the running back would have a great torts case. Yet the true president at that moment was in Florida: Donald Trump legally would remain in office for ten more minutes, under the 20th Amendment.

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