JonathanTurley
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
My students and I often use such controversies to discuss the scope or application of torts theories. That alone could be the basis for a tort action but what happened next is the more interesting tort issue. The tort has historically been based on negligence, not intent. This one raises a couple of novel elements.
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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SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 5, 2023
King sued them under the Federal Tort Claims Act and under Bivens v. Justin Sneed murdered Barry Van Treese, owner of an Oklahoma City motel, in one of the guest rooms. Oklahoma (resulting from Glossip’s fourth and fifth applications to that court for post-conviction relief), Glossip now seeks relief from the Supreme Court.
SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 20, 2025
The court also denied the motion by Alabama and 18 other states to bring a case against California and four other states directly in the Supreme Court to block a series of lawsuits against fossil fuel producers, saying that those suits impermissibly sought to dictate interstate energy policy through the aggressive use of state-law tort suits.
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
Brownback , involving whether the Federal Tort Claims Act’s “judgment bar,” which bars any claim based on the same subject matter as a dismissed FTCA case, applies when both the actions were originally brought together. The Supreme Court did not grant review in any new cases since our last installment. relisted after the Sept.
JonathanTurley
JULY 27, 2021
There is a no stand-your-ground case out of Oklahoma where Alexander Feaster, 46 is claiming that he shot Kyndal McVey, 27, in the back while she ran away as an act of self-defense. I teach these cases in my torts class and they raise many of the same issues. ” He shot McVey in the lower abdomen and legs as she ran away.
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 21, 2021
Below is my column in the Wall Street Journal on the ongoing opioid litigation and an important ruling out of the Oklahoma Supreme Court. ” The Oklahoma Supreme Court last week struck down a $465 million opioid award against Johnson & Johnson based on a legal theory that has previously been tried and failed against guns.
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