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US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ordered to pay nearly $1B in Sandy Hook defamation case

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Conspiracy theorist radio show host Alex Jones Wednesday was ordered to pay families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims and a first responder approximately $965 million in compensatory damages. In August, a Texas jury ordered Jones to pay $4.1 million compensatory damages and $45.2

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Lawsuit alleges Tesla laid off ‘thousands’ without notice, violated federal law

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John Lynch and Daxton Hartsfield filed a class action complaint in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas, Austin Division alleging that Tesla completed a mass layoff without advance or written notice.

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Alex Jones Ordered to Pay $4M to Sandy Hook Parents

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A Texas jury ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay more than $4 million — significantly less than the $150 million being sought — in compensatory damages to the parents of a 6-year-old boy killed in the Sandy Hook massacre, reports the Associated Press. The plaintiffs’ attorney Mark Bankston insisted that the $4.11

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Mopping up final business with 14 new relists

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20-219 , asks whether the compensatory damages available under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and the statutes that incorporate its remedies, such as the Rehabilitation Act and the Affordable Care Act , include compensation for emotional distress. The solicitor general recommends the court grant review. Cummings v. 1104(a)(1)(B).

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October 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The federal district court for the Eastern District of Texas denied a steel mill owner’s motion for a preliminary injunction barring construction of a gas pipeline that will cross the plaintiff’s property. New Jersey Federal Court Transferred Shareholder Derivative Action Against Exxon to Texas. Wheeler , No. 20-1363 (D.C. filed Sept.

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Foreign intelligence surveillance and immigration

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involving whether punitive damages that are twice compensatory damages and fall within a state’s statutory punitive damages cap are constitutionally excessive. Attorney General , which held in 2005 that, to establish derivative citizenship under the since-amended version of 8 U.S.C. Texas , 20-493.

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November 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The complaint asked the court for compensatory damages, equitable relief, attorneys’ fees, punitive damages, disgorgement of profits, and costs of suit. ExxonMobil Asked Texas Supreme Court to Review Denial of Presuit Discovery Against California Cities and Counties. County of Maui v. Sunoco LP , No. 12, 2020).