JonathanTurley

MARCH 25, 2021

In my torts class, we discuss sports torts and defenses. One of those issues is the common inclusion of waivers and binding arbitration language on the back of tickets in microscopic type. That issue came up in an interesting case involving the Chicago Cubs.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 21, 2024

In my torts class, we discuss the often uncertain line between ordinary citizens and public figures. I have previously written about the continuing questions over the inclusion of the public figures with public officials in tort actions. Baseball may be the national pastime, but it and other sports are just that: pastimes.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 25, 2021

And whether the consideration for such transportation be pecuniary or otherwise, the personal safety of the passengers should not be left to the sport of chance or the negligence of careless agents. ” This personal injury was, of course, to a pedestrian but would certainly constitute a “gross” tort. Cummings , 158 Va.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 26, 2023

I am skeptical of the claims, but there are novel elements that could lead to some important clarifications under Ohio tort law. However, in this case, the officers are not alleging privacy torts like intrusion upon seclusion. The law contains an exception for “any news, public affairs, sports broadcast, or account.”

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Day on Torts

JANUARY 29, 2021

He had played several sports before but had never “participated in shot put and was not familiar with the event.” He stayed home for 2-3 weeks before being released to return to school, and he was eventually released to return to sports. The testimony showed that the student was a 12-year-old sixth-grader at the time of the incident.

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The IP Law Blog

MAY 12, 2022

West’s lawyer claims that the producers have committed the tort of false light invasion of privacy by creating a false impression about Mr. West that is highly offensive and injurious to his reputation and have also defamed Mr. West by attributing acts of rage to him that he never committed.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 18, 2021

The Law and Economics of Extreme Sports Sponsoring in Comparative Perspective. This article investigates the law and economics of extreme sports sponsoring in a comparative perspective. 273-325 (53), DOI: 10.1628/rabelsz-2021-0002. In particular, such athletes should not be influenced by bonus systems in their risk-taking behaviour.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2023

” As a sports figure, such allegations can have a major impact on his future contracts both with teams and advertisers. Spears has given public statements and is a sports sensation. Spears objected to Times suggesting that he was “involved” in the “fatal January shooting.” 157, 168 (1979).

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SimplyLawJobs

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

He argued that academic integrity was being sacrificed for sports. In that case, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of public high school teacher Marvin Pickering, who wrote a letter to the local newspaper criticizing a school board’s allocation of funding for athletic programs. The decision is a substantial victory for free speech.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 14, 2021

The only evidence that he presented in this regard were the inadmissible hearsay declarations of a sports agent and a former player, who merely expressed their opinion that the plaintiff should be concerned about election. It is purely speculative as to whether the plaintiff will or will not be elected to the Hall of Fame and, if so, when.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 22, 2022

Thirteen women sexually assaulted by the former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar after he was reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the summer of 2015 have filed administrative tort claims against the agency over its failure to follow up on the allegations, reports the Wall Street Journal.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 10, 2022

The Court of Appeal held that misuse of private information and contravention of the statutory data protection requirements was a tort and therefore, if damage had been sustained within England, the English courts had jurisdiction and service to the USA (California) was allowed. For example, 130 people (out of 1.2-1.5 14] Furthermore, s.47C

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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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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 25, 2025

Postal Service employees intentionally did not deliver it to a designated address arises out of the loss or miscarriage of letters or postal matter under the Federal Tort Claims Act. Konan 24-351 Issue : Whether a plaintiff’s claim that she and her tenants did not receive mail because U.S. Peterson v.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 19, 2021

I’ve discussed the New York public nuisance law aimed at gun manufacturers, a law that doubles down on a failed legal theory using torts as a substitute for direct legislative bans or barriers. They should have an excellent shot at a preliminary injunction.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Boebert and Carlson are outspoken in their opposition to gender transitioning for children, transgender athletes competing in girl’s sporting event, and other current controversies. The most obvious form of civil liability would be some type of tort action. It would also not pass constitutional muster, in my view.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Cold-called in Torts. Follow him on Twitter or Bluesky if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. .” Law students fared no better. One desperate 2L posted their attempt: Revised Con Law outline to include the precise parameters allowing SEAL Team 6 to assassinate rivals. Blacked out.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The proposed intervenors had argued that “[t]he public deserves to see documentation of the effort by a tort lawyer to help his tort campaign against by enlisting the New York Office of Attorney General, successfully, if in pursuit of terribly unsuccessful prosecution at a cost, clearly, of millions of taxpayer dollars.”

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 25, 2021

Or you watch a football game with friends and try to explain that the cameraman wiped out by the running back would have a great torts case. You go to a great movie with your wife and get a sharp elbow after whispering in the theater that the character really cannot question a witness like that.

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