Statute Tort Washington 
The Crime Report
JUNE 27, 2022
For the sake of civilian safety, police must intervene if they see misconduct by colleagues,, according to a forthcoming paper in the George Washington Law Review. Kaufman, who is also a Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Compulsory training on this “duty” would augment its effectiveness, Kaufman adds.
Day on Torts
JULY 26, 2022
Plaintiffs next attempted to rely on a case from Washington to support the assertion that defendant’s distribution of the photos was outrageous. This case is an important read for anyone litigating a tort case involving a matter of public concern. Summary judgment was therefore affirmed.
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SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Ferguson involves a First Amendment challenge to Washington state’s law prohibiting “conversion therapy,” the practice of seeking to change a gay or transgender person’s sexual orientation or gender identity through counseling. King sued them under the Federal Tort Claims Act and under Bivens v. ” (relisted after the Sept.
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 21, 2021
It evolved into a common-law tort to address a broader range of “interests of the community at large—interests that were recognized as rights of the general public entitled to protection,” in the words of the American Law Institute’s Second Restatement of Torts (1965-79).
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
MAY 23, 2018
There are eight other climate change tort cases pending: six alleging nuisance and a variety of other state common law violations in California courts, one claiming state public nuisance along with other state common law and statutory violations in Colorado, and one claiming state public nuisance and trespass in Washington.
JonathanTurley
JULY 12, 2021
The New York law focuses on an exception under the law if a company “knowingly violated a state or federal statute applicable to the sale or marketing” of firearms. Beretta , the Second Circuit left open what a “predicate statute” might look like for the exception, but it rejected the prior nuisance statute.
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 28, 2024
Washington Post columnist and MSNBC contributor Jen Rubin even posted that “The Maga squirrel deserved to die.” 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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