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The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) joined with several other legal entities in a lawsuit Tuesday accusing NewYork Police officers of race discrimination, police brutality and violating the free speech of a peaceful protester.
Individuals who discriminate are subject to “substantial civil penalt[ies]” as well as punitivedamages and injunctive relief. Additionally, individuals who violate such provisions must pay the first responder’s attorneys’ fees.
Mac Issac allegedly reached out to Giuliani and mailed Giuliani and Attorney Robert J. Costello boasted about going through Biden’s laptop to NewYork Magazine. ” Biden requests a jury trial and seeks both general and punitivedamages. .” Costello copies he made of Biden’s hard drive.
The NewYork Times lost a critical effort to block the defamation lawsuit brought by University of Alabama basketball player Kai Spears. On March 20, Spears’s attorney demanded a public retraction of the statements pursuant to Ala. We have previously discussed retraction statutes that can limit damages or actions.
Almost exactly two years after Milkcrate Athletics filed – and swiftly settled – a lawsuit against adidas, accusing it of infringing its trademarks, Milkcrate has waged a new fight against the German sportswear giant. The plaintiff is also seeking compensatory, treble, and punitivedamages and attorneys’ fees.
On the heels of the high fashion retailer and the magazine publisher pushing back against the models’ claims in respective motions to dismiss, and a NewYork federal court stripping down the case, Condé Nast is trying to get the rest of the case – including the plaintiffs’ right of publicity and unjust enrichment claims – tossed out. .
Case Grounded on Fraud and Misrepresentation In mid-November, Kristie Brownell filed a proposed class action in a NewYork federal court against Starbucks Coffee Co. , the world’s largest coffeehouse chain. Will Starbucks wake up and smell the coffee? # # # SOURCE Brownell v Starbucks Coffee Company (Class Action Complaint).
Coscarelli sets the stage in the newly-filed 30-page complaint, asserting that “after winning Food Network’s Cupcake Wars and becoming a best-selling cookbook author, [she] founded ‘by Chloe’ – a first-of-its-kind fast-casual vegan restaurant chain” with NewYork-based ESquared Hospitality after pitching the concept to its CEO James Haber in 2014.
A casual reader might see Emily Bazelon’s recent lengthy NewYork Times Magazine piece “ I Write About the Law. Doing justice for Briley required a new lens—a lens that can identify system-driven wrongful convictions. But Could I Really Help Free a Prisoner? ” It’s better-written than most. Restoration.
The massive verdict in favor of actor Johnny Depp yesterday constitutes a rare victory of a public figure under the difficult NewYork Times v. Even with the reduction of the $5 million in punitivedamages to $350,000 under the statutory state cap for punitivedamages, Depp was technically awarded $10,350,000.
Another interesting example would be a series of cases where a Chinese court in Guangzhou recognized and enforced compensatory damages awarded in three U.S. EB-5 Visa fraud judgments, but rejected the punitivedamages awarded therein, echoing the same rule laid down in the 2021 Conference Summary.
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involving whether punitivedamages that are twice compensatory damages and fall within a state’s statutory punitivedamages 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. relisted after the Sept.
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Trump claimed that Carroll’s statements on CNN after the verdict were false and defamatory as she assented to the allegation that he specifically “raped” Carroll as defined under NewYork law. However, the lawsuit from May only determined that he sexually assaulted her.
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The testimony put the controversial demands of NewYorkAttorney General James into sharp relief. Those words from Alice in Wonderland seem the only apt description of the case unfolding in the NewYork courtroom of Justice Arthur F. Gore , striking down a punitivedamage award. In 1996, the U.S.
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