2020 Punitive Damages Tort 
Day on Torts
DECEMBER 5, 2022
The jury found defendant liable for intentional misrepresentation and awarded plaintiff $243,000 in compensatory damages, which was the purchase price of the home, and $250,000 in punitive damages. The jury also awarded plaintiff punitive damages in this case. internal citation omitted). Code Ann. § Code Ann. §
JonathanTurley
JUNE 2, 2022
Even with the reduction of the $5 million in punitive damages to $350,000 under the statutory state cap for punitive damages, Depp was technically awarded $10,350,000. In April 27, 2020, Waldman told the U.K. However, it was Heard’s verdict that struck me most as particularly noteworthy.
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JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 6, 2023
If a full and effective retraction is issued (and published as prominently as the offending statement), it can limit damages or bar punitive damages entirely in some states. Despite his past controversial writings, he was selected as the 2019 & 2020 National Association of Black Journalists Award Winner.
Conflict of Laws
MARCH 18, 2025
The original complaint asserted four claims under Missouri tort law: (1) public nuisance, (2) abnormally dangerous activity, (3) breach of duty by allowing the transmission of COVID, and (4) breach of duty by hoarding PPE. intelligence report in 2020 found that local officials hid information about the virus from Beijing.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Although the Tenth Circuit vacated an exception to the Colorado Roadless Rule in March 2020, the district court concluded that it could not enjoin the coal companies’ activities because all challenges to the mining lease modifications had been resolved in the federal defendants’ favor. On October 27, 2020, the D.C. Chernaik v.
JURIST
DECEMBER 25, 2021
Two Georgia election workers filed a complaint Thursday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia against Rudy Giuliani and One America News Network (“OAN”) for promoting claims that they engaged in election fraud during the vote-counting process in the state of Georgia during the 2020 presidential election.
JURIST
DECEMBER 15, 2023
A US federal jury Friday ordered former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani to pay $148M in damages to Ruby Freeman and Wandrea Mossin after accusing the two women of tampering with Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results. Freeman and Moss were volunteer election workers in Georgia during the 2020 election.
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