JURIST

MAY 22, 2022

million to a US Army veteran for alleged hearing damage that resulted from using the company’s military-issue earplugs. The US District Court for the Northern District of Florida Pensacola Division heard the case , with Judge Casey Rodgers presiding. million in punitive damages. to pay USD 77.5

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JURIST

MARCH 28, 2022

A jury for the US District Court for the District of Colorado Friday found that the Denver police used excessive force against protestors during the 2020 George Floyd protests and awarded a $14 million verdict to 12 protestors. This decision comes from a three-week trial that began on March 7.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The causes of action in the suit include strict product liability and negligence, and specifically addresses the following questions of law: whether Facebook (i.e. ” Plaintiffs demand a jury trial.

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JURIST

MARCH 24, 2022

A jury for the US District Court for the Northern District of California awarded Comet Technologies $40 million in damages on Wednesday, finding that a rival company had misappropriated trade secrets on equipment used in the manufacturing of semiconductor chips. Comet had sought compensatory damages of $32.5

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 7, 2021

Share This week we highlight petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether an award of punitive damages that doubles the compensatory damages can comport with due process and how a defendant can prove ineffective assistance of counsel in rejecting a plea offer. On appeal, the U.S.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 23, 2024

by Salih Okur (University of Augsburg) On 8 and 9 March, scholars from more than a dozen different jurisdictions followed the invitation of Tobias Lutzi to discuss recent trends in punitive damages at the University of Augsburg, Germany. The conference contained five panels overall, which were split into three blocks.

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Day on Torts

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Further, where the fraud was related to the purchase of plaintiff’s home, and the jury awarded plaintiff the amount she paid for the home in compensatory damages, that award was affirmed. On appeal, the verdict for compensatory damages was affirmed, but the punitive award was vacated and remanded for further proceedings.

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LegalReader

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Massachusetts' high court upholds a 2019 jury decision regarding punitive damages.

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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. Could the judgment be enforced in Japan where punitive damages are considered as contrary to public policy?

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 18, 2022

Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan, two former Pennsylvania judges accused in 2009 of sending hundreds of teenagers to privately run youth detention centers in exchange for millions in kickbacks, and sentenced to decades in prison as a result, have been ordered to pay more than $206 million in damages, reports the Wall Street Journal.

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JURIST

JUNE 28, 2022

million in compensatory damages and $13.5 million in punitive damages. In April 2021 Judge William Orrick reduced the award to $15 million. Orrick said that the original award was “grossly excessive” and unconstitutional. He revised the award to be $1.5

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Notably, the jury awarded punitive damages against the university, a relative rarity for juries but well deserved in this case. In its earlier summary judgment ruling , the court began with a discussion of the highly analogous case of Pickering v. 2013), the Supreme Court in Pickering , 391 U.S. Pretty low odds.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 16, 2024

Worse yet, the court appears to have questioned the veracity of the host in a sworn deposition on his lack of knowledge over the financial subject matter of the deposition. CNN recently lost a recent major ruling when the court found that there was evidence of malice by CNN to support the higher standard needed for defamation.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Of these, 26 were successful cases where the Chinese courts decided to recognize and enforce foreign judgments while 3 were partially successful cases (the Chinese courts recognized compensatory damages but rejected punitive damages); the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments were rejected in the remaining 34 cases.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Wasserstein — The New Jersey Supreme Court, in its August 25, 2022 opinion in Mirian Rivera v. 25, 2022), [link] , considered whether a provider’s use of a medical device that is the subject of an FDA safety communication constitutes per se evidence of wanton disregard, which would warrant punitive damages. Valley Hospital, Inc.

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Day on Torts

APRIL 6, 2022

Plaintiff’s initial complaint was filed in May 2009 and sought $1 million in compensatory damages and $1 million in punitive damages. Defendant was never served with this amended complaint, but the trial court entered a final judgment awarding plaintiff $3 million in total damages in August 2017.

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Day on Torts

MAY 24, 2022

Where the gravamen of plaintiff’s complaint was his tort claim for defamation seeking unliquidated damages, the chancery court did not have subject matter jurisdiction and the case should have been transferred to circuit court. The trial court denied the motion and ultimately found for plaintiff. In Lowery v. Code Ann. §

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NewmanFerraraLLP

JANUARY 24, 2023

Ultimately, Parker hopes to recover compensatory damages, restitution, punitive damages, legal fees, and costs, together with a judicial declaration as to the parties’ rights and responsibilities. ” ( Complaint , paragraph 1.) ” ( Complaint , paragraph 101.)

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The Fashion Law

MARCH 2, 2022

Armijo is seeking general and compensatory damages against the defendants “in an amount to be determined at trial in, but in no event less than $6 million,” as well as “exemplary and punitive damages against all the defendants … in an amount to be determined at trial.”.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 24, 2022

Please note that in the German case , the Saarbrücken Regional Court of Germany refused to recognize and enforce a Chinese judgment on the ground of lack of reciprocity, despite the fact that, as early as 2013, China confirmed that there was reciprocity between the two countries.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The AG places particular emphasis on the severe deterring effect these sums of damages may have – not only on the defendant newspaper and journalist in the case at hand but other media outlets in general (AG Opinion, paras. 45(2) Brussels I Regulation, i.e., prevents the enforcing court from reviewing the decision as to its substance.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 23, 2021

2d 774 (1998), bystanders can recover for emotional distress damages only when the injury is caused by a sudden, traumatic event and the plaintiff was aware that the event was causing injury to the victim. In 1968, the California Supreme Court expanded NIED claims in Dillon v. They could also seek punitive damages in such a case.

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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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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 5, 2021

The Beathard lawsuit could force these issues into open court as the judge and jury address the rivaling claims. He is seeking declaratory and injunctive relief; nominal damages; compensatory damages; reinstatement with backpay; punitive damages; and attorney fees, expenses, and costs pursuant to 42 USC § 1988.

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JURIST

APRIL 26, 2024

The Senate’s amendment added that in a civil action based on violating the bill, “[The] plaintiff may recover from the person: (A) Compensatory damages; (B) Punitive damages; and (C) Reasonable attorney’s fees, court costs, and expenses.”

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JURIST

DECEMBER 25, 2021

Two Georgia election workers filed a complaint Thursday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia against Rudy Giuliani and One America News Network (“OAN”) for promoting claims that they engaged in election fraud during the vote-counting process in the state of Georgia during the 2020 presidential election.

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JURIST

APRIL 26, 2024

million in compensatory and $65 million in punitive damages—but Judge Lewis Kaplan found his motion “without merit.” Trump had argued that the compensatory damages were excessive and the punitive damages unconstitutional. million in compensatory damages. Jean Carroll.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Share The Supreme Court issued orders on Tuesday morning from the justices’ private conference last week. The list of orders was largely uneventful, as the court did not add any new cases to its merits docket for the term. Epic went to the Supreme Court in April, asking the justices to weigh in. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. ,

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JURIST

JANUARY 30, 2024

A defense lawyer for former US President Donald Trump filed a letter in US District Court on Monday that argued a judge in a recent defamation lawsuit should have recused himself from the case. Roberta Kaplan responded with her own letter filed with the court. million in compensatory damages and $65 million in punitive damages.

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JURIST

APRIL 20, 2021

The civil suit was filed last Thursday in the Lynchburg Circuit Court in Virginia and claims damages on three counts of breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and statutory conspiracy. wanted Liberty to pay severance and retirement benefits to him if Granda revealed the Granda Allegations, and Falwell Jr. Falwell Jr.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. As we noted last week , the Supreme Court relisted 18 new cases from its “long conference” that marked its return to business after the summer recess. A short explanation of relists is available here.

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JURIST

AUGUST 28, 2021

The plaintiffs demand a jury trial and seek compensatory and punitive damages, including attorneys’ fees and costs, for physical and emotional injuries caused by the defendants.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 3, 2023

That eagerness could prove the court’s undoing, however. However, James wants dissolution and crippling damages, and that could trigger a higher-court review. Supreme Court decided a case, BMW of North America v. Gore , striking down a punitive damage award. In 1996, the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Federal Court in Rhode Island Allowed Failure-to-Adapt Claims to Proceed. The federal district court for the District of Rhode Island for the most part denied a motion to dismiss a citizen suit asserting that Shell Oil Products US and other defendants (Shell) failed to prepare a terminal in Providence for the impacts of climate change.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The lawsuit was filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, where Mike Lindell and MyPillow advertised and promoted the Stop the Steal march on January 6. billion in damages in the lawsuit against Lindell, including about $650 million in punitive damages and $650 million in compensatory damages.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Oregon Supreme Court Said Public Trust Doctrine Did Not Impose Obligation to Protect Resources from Climate Change. With respect to the scope of the doctrine, the Supreme Court said the public trust doctrine extends both to the State navigable waters and to the State’s submerged and submersible lands. (A FEATURED CASE. Chernaik v.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The damages in my view are excessive and absurd after the court acknowledged that no one lost a dime in these exchanges. That is precisely why the New York Court of Appeals should act to redeem the integrity of the legal system by setting aside or drastically reducing this award. Supreme Court. New York Gov.

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