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. 92608, 2009 WL 3649997, at *1–2 (Ohio Ct.

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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. A tort action for intentional infliction of emotional distress is likely to fail. 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

JULY 27, 2024

” The Ohio Supreme Court just ruled that selling a boneless chicken dish does not mean that it is boneless because it is referring to a “cooking style not a guarantee.” ” In my torts class, I teach food contamination and liability cases. 2019-Ohio-2401, ¶ 67 (DeWine, J., REKM L.L.C.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2021

United States , the Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Tort Claims Act, in which Congress waived the federal government’s sovereign immunity from tort liability, nonetheless did not allow servicemembers to bring claims for injuries “incident to service.” Ohio attaches to anyone near the shots. In 1950’s Feres v.

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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.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 26, 2023

Foreman, a rapper also known as “Afroman,” is the subject of a filing in Ohio (below) by seven police officers alleging that he has misused their images to sell merchandise and place them in a false light. However, in this case, the officers are not alleging privacy torts like intrusion upon seclusion.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Ohio, ex rel. Issue : Whether workers who load or unload goods from vehicles that travel in interstate commerce, but do not physically transport such goods themselves, are interstate “transportation workers” exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act. United States. Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft v.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JANUARY 26, 2023

The Ohio Adjutant General’s Department v. Federal Labor Relations Authority: The case stems from a collective-bargaining dispute between the Ohio National Guard and the union that represents its technicians. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

bankruptcy, class action, trademark, securities, and tort litigation, to the tune of $50 to $100 billion in investments annually. [10] 23] Such laws are already on the books in Arkansas, Maine, Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin, some of which limit the amount and type of funding entirely. [24]

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2024

This year, it is already producing its share of spooky torts. This year, another woman in Ohio took a more direct approach in Toledo, Ohio. As a torts professor, I try to walk the line between a fun attraction and an attractive nuisance. well … oversized.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Opioid litigation has proceeded like a locomotive in part because of Judge Dan Aaron Polster, a federal jurist in Ohio who has been given control of some 2,000 federal cases from across the country under the multidistrict litigation system. Yet the torts system has an elaborate and well-functioning system of product liability.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

He was charged with (and later acquitted of) a felony under an Ohio law prohibiting the use of a computer to “disrupt” or “interrupt” police functions. Parody and satire also face threats from other legal actions, particularly tort actions over the appropriation of names or likenesses (called the right to publicity).

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 31, 2022

The Ohio Supreme Court had rejected what should be Oberlin College’s final appeal of a verdict in favor of Gibson’s Bakery. The Ohio Supreme Court finally ended this farce by refusing to hear a new appeal on jurisdictional grounds. It voted 4-3 to end further litigation.

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Patently O

JUNE 23, 2024

In a recent dissent, Justice Gorsuch lamented that “Despite [a] settled rule, the Court today doubles down on a new tort of its own recent invention.” City of Napoleon, Ohio , 602 U.S. .” Justice Thomas is not alone in his negative view of judicial invention. ” Chiaverini v. — (June 20, 2024) (Gorsuch, J.,

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 24, 2023

From England, Lilly moved to Ohio, which has the same law regarding adverse possession as California. Neither Lilly’s moves to England and Ohio nor Claude’s move to California were driven by a desire to take advantage of those states’ protective law of acquisitive prescription. “As regards the original thief, or.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The appellate court also agreed with the court below that it was not appropriate to recognize a new tort of “intentional investment in abnormally dangerous activities” advocated by the plaintiffs on behalf of future generations. Bird Groups Sent Notice of Violations in Connection with Ohio Wind Turbine Project. 24, 2016).

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JonathanTurley

MAY 3, 2021

This is the flip side to lethal-force cases such as last month’s shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant , 16, in Columbus, Ohio, in which Officer Nicholas Reardon used lethal force to stop the stabbing of another girl. For police officers, the city’s defense may seem as familiar as it is frustrating.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 15, 2022

Without this extension of coverage, the workers might be left without such protection and be forced to rely on a long, expensive civil tort case to obtain a remedy for workplace injury or disease. In Goodyear Atomic Corp.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 23, 2025

Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit exceeded its powers under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act in concluding that every fairminded jurist would agree that the Ohio courts violated the Constitution in refusing to bar testimony from a victim of an attempted murder identifying her attacker. Relisted after the Jan. 10 and Jan.

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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

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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LawSites

DECEMBER 4, 2023

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Ah, the classic "fourth trimester abortion." [ Huffington Post ] * Speaking of abortion, Ohio's GOP Attorney General put out his "non-partisan" assessment of the upcoming reproductive rights ballot measure and wouldn't you know it, returning to the status quo of the prior half century results in fire and brimstone.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether the Penobscot Nation has regulatory authority over the Penobscot River or only over certain islands in the river, and how broadly to construe the combatant-services exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act. In Penobscot Nation v.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Choice of Law The Eighth Circuit applied Mexican law to a suit against General Motors over a car crash in Mexico, while an Ohio state court applied South African law to invalidate a marriage. So, on this leap day, we thought we would leap into the new month by looking back at the old year.

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Patently O

MARCH 16, 2021

designs coordinated by UH Ventures were adopted by the State of Ohio as standards of care; Make4Covid delivered 120,000 units of PPE in 6 months, many to rural and children’s hospitals and the Navajo Nation; and. Relying on open-source hardware and design, thousands of individuals met this moment of need with ingenuity.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2025

Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit exceeded its powers under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act in concluding that every fairminded jurist would agree that the Ohio courts violated the Constitution in refusing to bar testimony from a victim of an attempted murder identifying her attacker. Relisted after the Jan.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 17, 2024

The Associated Press (AP) is reportedly looking at a possible lawsuit after a bombshell article on GOP Ohio Senate candidate Bernie Moreno was found to contain serious errors and contradictions. Moreno is a Trump-backed anti-establishment candidate who is on the ballot this Tuesday in the Ohio primary.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 26, 2025

Steve Chabot both Republicans from Ohio and the Republican Partys national committees that coordinate spending on behalf of senatorial and congressional races went to federal court, arguing that the federal limits on coordinated party expenditures violate the First Amendment. Energetic Tank, Inc.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Revisiting the Feres doctrine The Federal Tort Claims Act waives U.S. sovereign immunity and authorizes tort actions against the federal government for the negligence of its employees, while expressly retaining immunity for claim[s] arising out of the combatant activities of the military during time of war. Relisted after the Oct.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The most obvious form of civil liability would be some type of tort action. Moreover, arguing that these speakers induced violence under another form of tort liability would be quickly rejected under the First Amendment. It would also not pass constitutional muster, in my view. This would fail for the same reason. In Brandenburg v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 28, 2021

The petition for review was filed by Peyman Pakdel and Sima Chegini, a married couple from Ohio who in 2009 bought an interest in a six-unit apartment building in San Francisco’s Russian Hill neighborhood. corporations can be sued for violations of the Alien Tort Statute, the law on which the Iraqi plaintiffs were relying, at all.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 19, 2022

The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. 1 (1990), an Ohio high school wrestling coach sued over an opinion column alleging that he had lied under oath at a public hearing, saying that it was tantamount to an allegation of perjury.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 3, 2023

I have previously written about the continuing questions over the inclusion of the public figures with public officials in tort actions. An Ohio high school wrestling coach sued over an opinion column alleging that he had lied under oath at a public hearing, saying that it was tantamount to an allegation of perjury.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

Ohio Federal Court Remanded Environmental Assessment for Additional Analysis of Hydraulic Fracturing Impacts in Wayne National Forest. Center for Biological Diversity v. Bureau of Land Management , No. 17-cv-1208 (D.D.C. A year after finding that the U.S. Center for Biological Diversity v. Forest Service , No. 2:17-cv-00372 (S.D.

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