SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 12, 2021

Justice Neil Gorsuch suggested to Waggoner that most lawsuits would still be able to go forward even if a request for nominal damages, standing alone, was not enough to keep a case alive. Alito pressed Pinson, asking whether an award of $10 in statutory damages would be large enough for the lawsuit to go forward.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In its earlier summary judgment ruling , the court began with a discussion of the highly analogous case of Pickering v. In that case, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of public high school teacher Marvin Pickering, who wrote a letter to the local newspaper criticizing a school board’s allocation of funding for athletic programs.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 3, 2021

Assume that you successfully obtained a favourable judgment from a foreign court that orders the losing party to pay punitive damages in addition to compensatory damages. Again, the issue of punitive damages was not raised before the Supreme Court. Introduction.

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JURIST

JUNE 9, 2022

The court ruled that, between 1977 and 1978, “a number of war crimes were committed with the knowledge and participation of the defendant.” ” The court also ordered compensatory damages for victims. Later, without any fair trial, they were executed in a barbaric manner.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Despite this history, a new decision out of the High Court is still shocking in its implications for further attacks on free speech. The court ruled that newspapers and television stations that post articles on social media sites like Facebook are liable for other third party comments on those posts. punitive damages.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 2, 2021

Montana Department of Revenue , the Supreme Court ruled that although states are not required to subsidize private education, states that choose to do so cannot exclude religious schools from receiving funding simply because they are religious. She sought compensatory damages for “humiliation, frustration, and emotional distress.”

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The parties reached a settlement on the negligence claims, and the trial court ordered disbursement of the settlement proceeds to plaintiff as surviving spouse.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2021

At trial, a jury awarded Epic (as relevant here) $140 million in compensatory damages and $700 million in punitive damages. But relying on a Wisconsin law that limits punitive damages to either $200,000 or twice the compensatory damages award, the trial judge reduced the punitive damages award to $420 million.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The court, which did not address the plaintiffs’ arguments regarding alleged inadequacies in the climate change-related analyses, found that the plaintiffs failed to demonstrate a likelihood of success on the merits or that they would suffer irreparable harm. Ministry of Economic Affairs (Taipei Administrative Court).

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