SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Abbott case arose from a long-running multidistrict litigation against the chemical company DuPont by people who allege that they were injured by the company’s release of a chemical known as C-8, used in the production of Teflon, into the air, landfills, and river near its plant in Parkersburg, West Virginia.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 25, 2021

” This personal injury was, of course, to a pedestrian but would certainly constitute a “gross” tort. Any negligence, in such cases, may well deserve the epithet of ‘gross.'” In Chesapeake Ferry Co v. Cummings , 158 Va. 33, 164 S.E.

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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 14, 2022

I have previously written about the continuing questions over the inclusion of the public figures with public officials in tort actions. The Court also viewed these figures as thrusting themselves into the public eye, voluntarily assuming the risk of heightened criticism. ” Dr. Amor and Ms.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law, and Mitu Gulati, the Perre Bowen Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. Written by Mark Weidemaier, the Ralph M. Stockton, Jr. Political leaders, with good reason, fear that a debt default will get them thrown out of office.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

West Virginia Federal Court Ordered EPA to Evaluate Clean Air Act’s Impacts on Coal Industry. The federal district court for the Northern District of West Virginia ruled that the U.S. Pritzker , Nos. 16-35380, 16-35382 (9th Cir. opening brief Oct. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Lastly, the court denied review in a case challenging a prestigious Virginia magnet high school’s admissions policy , which while facially neutral had the effect of reducing the admission of Asian American students from 73% to 54% for the class of 2025. Florida and Moore v.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 1, 2024

46 (1988), the Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s judgment for intentional infliction of emotional distress against Hustler for a parody of Jerry Falwell, the founder of the Moral Majority and Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. Falwell , 485 U.S.

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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. The court finally denied review on Nov. 20 in six-time relist E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. On appeal, a divided panel of the U.S.

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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

APRIL 14, 2022

.'” Captain Jack Sparrow’s clarification in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean could prove useful when actor Johnny Depp takes the stand in his defamation case in Fairfax, Virginia against his former wife, Amber Heard. ” He is now trying his hand with a Virginia jury.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 18, 2023

All of this will now be hashed out in a Virginia courthouse. ” While the Schlapps are named, Doe insists that his identity should be protected under Virginia law. All three statements are false, and the latter statement is false and defamatory. However, it was the anonymous filing that was a bit curious.

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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. It is a Thanksgiving that perfectly captures 2020. _.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 12, 2022

Prince Andrew lost a major ruling in his litigation with Virginia Giuffre (née Roberts), who claims that the Duke of York sexually assaulted her as part of the sex trafficking crimes of the late Jeffrey Epstein. Florida Southern District Court.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 15, 2021

There was a surprising claim by Prince Andrew this week by his defense in the lawsuit from Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who claims that she was forced to have sex with him at the behest of Jeffrey Epstein. Florida Southern District Court.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The court held that plaintiffs had alleged sufficient conduct in the United States to support their Alien Tort Statute (ATS) claim and that the Tort Victim Protection Act (TVPA) permitted aiding and abetting claims against the corporate executives.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

United States District Judge Laura Taylor Swain issued a ruling in New York to apply Virginia’s choice of law standard that in turn applied California’s defamation laws. In my torts class, I teach defamation and often discuss the California retraction law. It was a cascading deconstruction of the lawsuit. 2d 324, 326 (Va.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

West Virginia v. The court said the laws’ provision for criminal or tort liability for advising, encouraging, or soliciting persons participating in a riot to acts of force or violence was overbroad and vague. The court also declined to “create a new tort named abusive litigation.” 15-1363 et al. National Review, Inc. ,

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 4, 2023

.” The 13 states expressly named are thirteen states: Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Oklahoma. Georgia is also named for its severe limitation on abortion rights. cases, including in his concurring opinion in Sosa v.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 4, 2022

The civil litigation between Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre (née Roberts) just took a “Big Lebowski” turn. In the movie, there is a scene “The Dude” is pressed on what happened to a million dollars in a suitcase. He insists “We dropped off the damn money…” When the Big Lebowski asks “We?,”

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 28, 2021

Grimm , leaves in place a lower-court ruling that found that a Virginia school district violated federal law when it barred students from using the restrooms that align with their gender identities. 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

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Building from Glenn Youngkin’s 2021 gubernatorial victory in Virginia, school boards races and educational initiatives have become some of the most fiercely contested areas on local and state ballots. American torts have long required consent in torts. Parental rights are becoming one of the defining issues for 2024.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Forest Service Categorical Exclusions Challenged in Virginia Federal Court. A lawsuit filed in the federal district court for the Western District of Virginia challenged three categorical exclusions adopted by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management , No. 4:21-cv-00004 (D. Forest Service to exempt certain projects from NEPA review.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The court also dismissed defamation and related state tort claims. Murray Energy also moved in the federal district court for the Northern District of West Virginia to amend the order of dismissal with prejudice issued by the court on October 2, 2017. West Virginia v. 15-1363 (D.C. EPA status report Oct.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

On May 24, 2021, the mandate issued for the Second Circuit’s judgment affirming dismissal of New York City’s tort law-based case against fossil fuel companies. West Virginia v. Chevron Corp. City of Oakland , No. 20-1089 (U.S.). City of New York v. Chevron Corp. , 18-2188 (2d Cir. May 24, 2021). 20-1530 (U.S.).

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The Crime Report

APRIL 6, 2023

Virginia Canter, a former government ethics lawyer who served in administrations of both parties, said Thomas “seems to have completely disregarded his higher ethical obligations.” He has donated to the Federalist Society and given millions of dollars to groups dedicated to tort reform and conservative jurisprudence.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

Virginia Federal Court Said Challenge to NEPA Regulations Was Not Justiciable. Wild Virginia v. The MPF brought a tort case against de Rezende for causing the deforestation of 2,488.56 WildEarth Guardians v. Steele , No. 9:19-cv-00056 (D. June 24, 2021). Council on Environmental Quality , No. 3:20-cv-00045 (W.D. June 21, 2021).

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The bizarre story of Susanna Gibson and her running as a candidate for the House of Delegates has occupied much of the conversations around Virginia, where I live. Virginia State Sen. There are a couple torts that could be raises but neither would be compelling in this circumstance. Glenn Youngkin and the Republicans.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) requested that the federal district court for the Western District of Virginia remand, without vacatur, CEQ’s 2020 amendments to the regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Wild Virginia v. Council on Environmental Quality , No. 3:20-cv-00045 (W.D.

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