2022 Punitive Damages Statute 
Conflict of Laws
MARCH 23, 2024
by Salih Okur (University of Augsburg) On 8 and 9 March, scholars from more than a dozen different jurisdictions followed the invitation of Tobias Lutzi to discuss recent trends in punitive damages at the University of Augsburg, Germany. The conference contained five panels overall, which were split into three blocks.
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 9, 2024
In a pair of orders, the jury will be allowed to award punitive damages and his experts would be allowed to be heard by the jury on the merits of the case. The punitive damages decision is particularly interesting legally. The court found that CNNs retraction was insufficient to remove punitive damages from the table.
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Day on Torts
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Further, where the fraud was related to the purchase of plaintiff’s home, and the jury awarded plaintiff the amount she paid for the home in compensatory damages, that award was affirmed. M2021-01335-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 17175608 (Tenn. 23, 2022), the issues revolved around plaintiff’s purchase of a home. In Hogue v. Code Ann. §
Day on Torts
APRIL 6, 2022
April 1, 2022), plaintiff filed this negligence suit against defendant after the two were involved in a car accident. Plaintiff’s initial complaint was filed in May 2009 and sought $1 million in compensatory damages and $1 million in punitive damages. McCord , No. M2021-00789-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. Code Ann. §
Day on Torts
MAY 24, 2022
Where the gravamen of plaintiff’s complaint was his tort claim for defamation seeking unliquidated damages, the chancery court did not have subject matter jurisdiction and the case should have been transferred to circuit court. In Lowery v. Redmond , No. W2021-00611-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. internal citation omitted).
Foley Hoag LLP
MARCH 11, 2022
On February 3, Senators Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) introduced the Slave-Free Business Certification Act of 2022. The bill empowers the Secretary to impose up to $100 million in civil damages and $500 million in punitive damages for companies in violation of the legislation. The post New U.S
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
DECEMBER 2, 2022
On November 22, 2022, sixteen municipalities of Puerto Rico filed a lawsuit in the federal district court in Puerto Rico seeking to hold coal, oil, and gas companies liable for losses resulting from storms during the 2017 hurricane season and ongoing economic losses since that time. . By Korey Silverman-Roati and Maria Antonia Tigre.
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