Alabama Compensatory Damages Laws 
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
OCTOBER 16, 2024
Recognizing this, federal and state bodies have adopted a number of laws and regulations aimed at ensuring geologic carbon storage proceeds in a safe and responsible way. A number of new state laws focused on geologic carbon storage have been enacted in 2024. Several states are stepping up to the plate.
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.”
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SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 14, 2021
Inslee , a challenge to a Washington state law that shields the personal information of in-home care providers from public disclosure but allows the state to provide that data to the union that represents the providers. On Monday, the court denied review to just one of those cases, Boardman v. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
JonathanTurley
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Yet, the New York law used by James is a curiosity because it does not actually require a victim. Having campaigned on bagging Trump on any basis, James turned the law into a virtual license to hunt him down along with his family and his associates. Even when the Alabama Supreme Court reduced that to $2 million, the U.S.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. Alabama Federal Court Dismissed Challenge to TVA Environmental Review of Rate Changes for Distributed Energy. Portland, Oregon. and non-U.S. California v.
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 3, 2023
It is relatively rare for civil damages to trigger constitutional review, and it is still far from clear that this case will rise to that level. The New York law is unique in allowing massive penalties without the loss of a single dollar by a bank.
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 5, 2021
Smith , which held that the free exercise clause does not prohibit the enforcement of generally applicable laws that incidentally burden religious conduct. involving whether punitive damages that are twice compensatory damages, and fall within a state’s statutory punitive damages cap, are constitutionally excessive.
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