tort-actions

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
21-7075 Ian T. Cooke v. John R. Williams, et al. Connecticut 2022-02-08 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-plaintiffs favorable-termination heck-bar heck-v-humphrey justiciability legal-malpractice tort-action tort-actions Does the justiciability bar articulated by Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994) requiring criminal plaintiffs to favorably terminate their conviction…
21-571 Infowars, LLC, et al. v. Marcel Fontaine Texas 2021-10-20 Denied class-action defamation first-amendment free-speech media-organization public-concern rosenblatt-test speech-rights sullivan-test tort-actions Whether the First Amendment bars tort actions seeking damages for speech on matters of public concern directed at a loosely associated, large class of…