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. See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In this case, for example, a European insurance company insured a yacht owned by a Pennsylvania company. In this case, there is no contention that the choice of New York law infringes on “any federal statute or established federal maritime policy.”

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 30, 2021

Bill Cosby is a free man after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned the conviction that sent him to jail roughly three years ago to serve 3-10 years for sexual assault. Roughly 30 states and the District of Columbia have statutes allowing for recovery for wrongful convictions and imprisonment. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Arnaud Nuyts , from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, held a Special Course on ‘The Forum for Cyber-Torts’, which is an excellent topic in today’s day and age. He highlighted the diversity of civil cyber-torts, as well as the challenges of locating the torts that are committed on-line.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

When the squirrel refused to return to the wild, they adopted him as a pet in their home in rural Pine City , near the Pennsylvania border. Peanut even appeared in my torts class this term, posthumously, of course. Even though Peanut was a pet, he was still considered a wild animal in New York, both by statute and common law.

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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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