SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
Share Less than two months after oral argument, in its first interstate groundwater case, the Supreme Court unanimously decided that Mississippi must rely on a doctrine known as equitable apportionment if it wants to sue Tennessee over the shared Middle Claiborne Aquifer. As expected, the court’s opinion in Mississippi v.
Above The Law
OCTOBER 4, 2021
NPR ] * In the most Karen move this side of the Mississippi, Mom calls police on her son because she doesn't like his haircut. [ Fox Wilmington ] * Torts professors, watch out! * Couple bought home without knowing it was the site of events that inspired The Exorcist. Does this count as a material or immaterial omission of fact? [
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JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 31, 2023
In teaching torts, I begin my discussion of the intentional infliction of emotional distress by having students write in their notes “not everything is the infliction of emotional distress.” Keisel brought an array of tort claims that have now been correctly rejected by the courts. See, e.g. , McGrew v. Duncan , 333 F.
SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 8, 2021
Webster County, Mississippi , Felicia Robinson seeks to hold a county liable for creating a situation for a private actor to harm her. Webster County, Mississippi. The county asks the justices to review and reverse this decision. In another Section 1983 case, Robinson v. United States involves servicemember suits against the military.
Day on Torts
JULY 26, 2022
In the context of countering plaintiffs’ assertion that the death was a homicide, defendant shared autopsy photographs of the son as well as some of his text messages, both of which were public records released by the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office. Summary judgment was therefore affirmed.
JonathanTurley
AUGUST 6, 2021
We have previously discussed animal liability in torts. It is often said the every dog gets one free bite in American torts. However, the “one free bite rule” is a commonly misunderstood torts doctrine — suggesting that you are not subject to strict liability until after the first time your dog bites someone.
Conflict of Laws
MARCH 18, 2025
The original complaint asserted four claims under Missouri tort law: (1) public nuisance, (2) abnormally dangerous activity, (3) breach of duty by allowing the transmission of COVID, and (4) breach of duty by hoarding PPE. Mississippi filed a similar complaint against the same defendants in May 2020.
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