SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 8, 2021
The students push back against the idea that allowing claims for nominal damages to go forward even after the policy at the heart of a lawsuit has been changed will create an incentive for plaintiffs to run up large legal bills. Nominal damages, the officials reason, are not simply “a small amount of compensatory damages.”
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
OCTOBER 16, 2024
At least seven states have passed amendments in 2024 related to property rights: Louisiana , Illinois , Alaska , Pennsylvania , Alabama , Colorado and Wyoming. Illinois , Colorado , Pennsylvania and Alabama have all tied pore ownership to surface estate rights. States have proposed funds as well for fees levied.
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SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 14, 2021
involving whether punitive damages that are twice compensatory damages and fall within a state’s statutory punitive damages cap are constitutionally excessive. The court also called for the views of the solicitor general (a so-called CVSG) in Epic Systems Corp v. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. relisted after the Sept.
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 3, 2023
The case involved the practice of the company to repair and repaint cars damaged in transit without telling the customers. Even though the Alabama Supreme Court previously reduced the punitive award by half, the U.S. Supreme Court still found that the award violated the Due Process Clause as “grossly excessive.”
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Alabama Federal Court Dismissed Challenge to TVA Environmental Review of Rate Changes for Distributed Energy. The complaint asked the court for compensatory damages, equitable relief, attorneys’ fees, punitive damages, disgorgement of profits, and costs of suit. Oceana, Inc. Ross , No. 1:12-cv-00041 (D.D.C. 12, 2020).
JonathanTurley
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
In that case, BMW was found to have repainted luxury cars damaged in transit without telling buyers. An Alabama jury awarded $4,000 in compensatory damages for the loss of value in having a factory paint job, but then added $4 million in punitive damages. Supreme Court still found it excessive.
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 5, 2021
involving whether punitive damages that are twice compensatory damages, and fall within a state’s statutory punitive damages cap, are constitutionally excessive. Three cases involving lawsuits over allegations that police officers used excessive force. Epic Systems Corp v. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. 27 conference).
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