JonathanTurley

MAY 18, 2021

We previously discussed the shooting of Andrew Brown, 42, one of a number of recent police shootings sparking protests. The body camera footage has now been released with a decision not to charge any officer. The finding of a justified shooting is based on facts that are sharply different from those reported at the time in media coverage.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

and North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation v. A federal district court in North Carolina ultimately invalidated much of the law, and the U.S. The Farm Bureau and North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein ask the court to grant review and reverse the 4th Circuit’s decision. ” (relisted after the Sept.

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In her initial expert disclosures, plaintiff identified Dr. Steege from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Note: Chapter 49, Section 8 of Day on Torts: Leading Cases in Tennessee Tort Law has been updated to include this decision. Code Ann. § 26-26-115(b). The trial court ruled that “Dr.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

I also teach critical race theory, alongside other legal theories to my first-year torts students. Those efforts received a boost recently from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, which rejected the free speech claims of North Carolina State University Professor Stephen Porter. The decision in Porter v.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2021

A federal case in North Carolina recently resulted in $75 million in damages for two wrongly convicted men but that award was in the federal system. Pennsylvania cases for malicious prosecution are based on the Restatement (Second) of Torts. Cosby would qualify under such a program. The men were sent to death row.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law, and Mitu Gulati, the Perre Bowen Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. Written by Mark Weidemaier, the Ralph M. Stockton, Jr.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2023

This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, PETA’s First Amendment challenge to a North Carolina law that imposes monetary damages on undercover workplace recording. The law at issue was enacted in response to a dispute between Food Lion and ABC News in North Carolina in the late 1990s.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The court also declined without comment to take up two other petitions , seeking review of a ruling by a federal appeals court that invalidated on First Amendment grounds a North Carolina law that allows employers to sue employees who make undercover video or audio recordings. ” (relisted after the Sept. 13 conferences) King v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Brownback , 22-912 Issue : Whether the Federal Tort Claims Act’s judgment bar, which this court has repeatedly said functions in much the same way as the common-law doctrine of res judicata, nevertheless operates to bar claims brought together in the same action. 6 conferences) North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation v.

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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. She also threatened another woman with a carving knife.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 27, 2025

It makes a (very) little more sense when you check the docket and realize that Passantino is represented by Jesse Binnall, the MAGAworld lawyer hired for pointless windmill tilts on behalf of such luminaries as former North Carolina Lt.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The court held that plaintiffs had alleged sufficient conduct in the United States to support their Alien Tort Statute (ATS) claim and that the Tort Victim Protection Act (TVPA) permitted aiding and abetting claims against the corporate executives.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The non-profit has now also filed a petition in a challenge to the University of North Carolina that it hopes can serve as a companion to the Harvard case. University of North Carolina. North Carolina State Health Plan for Teachers & State Employees v. University of North Carolina.

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