Alabama Laws Punitive Damages 
SCOTUSBlog
MAY 20, 2024
Alabama , the Supreme Court declared that mandatory sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole for offenders who were under the age of 18 when they committed their crimes violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. Credit Bureau Center, LLC v.
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.
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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. Gore , striking down a punitive damage award. In 1996, the U.S.
JonathanTurley
MARCH 31, 2021
In my view, the lawsuit contravenes free speech as well as controlling case law from the Supreme Court. The officers seek $75,000 in damages in their complaint but also ask for unspecified punitive damages. That claim runs directly counter to the controlling case law. Mike Lee instead of Alabama Sen.
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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