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Showing posts with label FTCA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FTCA. Show all posts
Saturday, February 26, 2022

Judge Jackson Media Law, Torts Tour: From Big Meat 'COOL' to 'A Love of Food' and 'Everlasting Life'

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[A revised version of this post is available to download as a paper on SSRN .] The Hon. KBJ ( Wikicago CC BY-SA 4.0 ) Profiles of U.S. Circ...
Monday, September 7, 2020

Immunity shields tweeting legislators from libel suits, Elizabeth Warren from high school plaintiffs

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High schoolers from Kentucky will not get their day in court against Elizabeth Warren. The students' lawsuit, high profile in the politi...
Monday, November 25, 2019

Area man signposts 'sovereign immunity site'

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Attorney Dan Greenberg , friend of the blog and a federal policy adviser in Washington, D.C., contributes this photo from his home neighbo...
Monday, November 11, 2019

For Veterans Day, let's push through Congress bipartisan Feres doctrine waiver for medmal claims

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Veterans Day Painting.   (Details at end of story.) The Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) authorizes tort actions against the U.S. federal ...
Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Teachable torts: Court succinctly dismisses 'outing' case collateral to terrorism prosecution

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Attendees dance during the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender mixer hosted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo Equal Opportunity Leader...
Monday, July 8, 2019

U.S. Supreme Court widens tort liability exposure of New Deal-era, state-owned enterprises

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On April 29, the U.S. Supreme Court held against the Government by reversing and remanding unanimously in Thacker v. Tennessee Valley Author...
Saturday, March 9, 2019

Advocates in SCOTUS case on tort and sovereign immunity stick to their guns, frustrate Court's search for middle ground

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For the Federalist Society SCOTUScast podcast series, I recorded a commentary on the U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Thacker v. Tenness...
Sunday, January 27, 2019

Court dismisses prolonged suit against Government over 2009 Ft. Hood mass shooting

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From the Defense Department : "Jeffrey and Sheryll Pearson look at the portrait of their son, Army Pfc. Michael Pearson, before the...
Friday, January 18, 2019

SCOTUS ponders governmental immunity in boating accident suit against TVA

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The Federalist Society produced a beautifully illustrated video , as part the SCOTUSbrief series , to accompany the January 14 oral argu...