JURIST
DECEMBER 29, 2020
Seven lawsuits were filed Monday in Arizona against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) for allegedly covering up sexual abuse in church-sponsored Boy Scouts of America (BSA) troops. However, punitive damages are not an available remedy in such older cases. Thanks for your support! DONATE NOW.
SCOTUSBlog
MAY 20, 2024
Under Arizona law, the trial judge could have sentenced Bassett for each count to either life in prison without the possibility of parole or life in prison with the possibility of “release” after 25 years. Arizona had passed a law a decade earlier rendering anyone convicted of homicide, including murder, ineligible for parole.
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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
DECEMBER 11, 2020
Center for Biological Diversity and Maricopa Audubon Society filed a lawsuit in the federal district court for the District of Arizona seeking to compel the U.S. The plaintiffs asserted a violation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and requested that the court award them compensatory and punitive damages.
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. 27 and Oct.
JURIST
JANUARY 25, 2021
The lawsuit filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, alleges that Giuliani’s defamatory statements gave rise to more than $650 million in damages, and the company seeks a total of $1.3 billion in damages, including punitive damages. These lawsuits were largely failures.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
MAY 7, 2021
Arizona Federal Court Declined to Put Challenge to Trump “Waters of the United States” Rule on Hold. The federal district court for the District of Arizona denied EPA and the U.S. Arizona Alleged that Halting Border Wall Construction and Ending “Remain in Mexico” Program Required NEPA Review. Center for Biological Diversity v.
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. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. Ysleta del Sur Pueblo v. Epic Systems Corp v. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. , relisted after the Sept. 27 conference).
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