Alabama Compensatory Damages Legal 
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.
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
involving whether punitive damages that are twice compensatory damages and fall within a state’s statutory punitive damages cap are constitutionally excessive. 1432(a)(3) that governed Abdulla’s case, the custodial parent must naturalize after the parents legally separate. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
The Ninth Circuit was not persuaded by the plaintiff states’ argument that “precedent requires a broad, fact-intensive inquiry into whether altering an injunction is equitable, even if the legal duty underlying the injunction has disappeared.” Oceana, Inc. Ross , No. 1:12-cv-00041 (D.D.C. County of Maui v. Sunoco LP , No.
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.”
JonathanTurley
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
That is precisely why the New York Court of Appeals should act to redeem the integrity of the legal system by setting aside or drastically reducing this award. In that case, BMW was found to have repainted luxury cars damaged in transit without telling buyers. Even when the Alabama Supreme Court reduced that to $2 million, the U.S.
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