Attorney Punitive Damages Tort 
JonathanTurley
JUNE 2, 2022
Even with the reduction of the $5 million in punitive damages to $350,000 under the statutory state cap for punitive damages, Depp was technically awarded $10,350,000. The one statement in Heard’s countersuit that was found to be defamation was not made by Depp but his attorney Adam Waldman.
JonathanTurley
AUGUST 28, 2021
A very disturbing case of alleged police brutality just got far worse after defense counsel for Jim Jones, 62, alleged in open court that a prosecutor with the District Attorney for Lawrence County, Tennessee told a deputy sheriff to delete pictures of the beaten Jones. The complaint seeks punitive damages.
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JonathanTurley
AUGUST 31, 2022
The jury in June 2019 awarded the Gibsons $44 million in compensatory and punitive damages. million payment in attorney fees. Now interest has pushed the reduced award back up to roughly $36 million but you then have to add the attorney fees and the college’s own towering legal costs.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 23, 2021
The fatal shooting at Bonanza Creek Ranch already has the makings of a blockbuster tort action. ” The question is not whether but when the first torts lawsuit will be filed. .” What is clear is that there is an abundance of evidence to support a tort action even at this early stage.
Conflict of Laws
MARCH 18, 2025
The original complaint asserted four claims under Missouri tort law: (1) public nuisance, (2) abnormally dangerous activity, (3) breach of duty by allowing the transmission of COVID, and (4) breach of duty by hoarding PPE. Third, the court failed to consider whether trebling damages is allowed under the FSIA. Pursuant to 15 U.S.C.
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 7, 2023
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. Here is Alabama’s Section 6-5- 186 “Prerequisites to recovery of vindictive or punitive damages in action for libel.
JonathanTurley
AUGUST 31, 2023
Former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani lost a defamation lawsuit by default Wednesday in Washington, D.C. She then ordered a default and the payment of the plaintiffs’ attorneys fees totaling tens of thousands of dollars as well as punitive damages. The court ordered trial proceedings solely on the amount of damages.
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