The Fashion Law

MARCH 2, 2022

And even though blockchains and the technology associated with them “may be decentralized in theory,” Armijo argues that each of the defendants is a centralized entity in that does “not share governance with their communities or the wider NFT consumer base.” Owners can, for example, sell merchandise depicting their ape.”).

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JURIST

JULY 23, 2024

The family members of Syrian-American Majd Kamalmaz filed a civil lawsuit against the Syrian government on Monday, seeking damages of at least $70 million from the Assad regime for the unlawful detention, torture and killing of Kamalmaz. This is not the first time such a lawsuit has been filed.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

compensatory damages and $300,000.00 punitive damages. The imposition of tort liability on service providers for the communications of others represented, for Congress, simply another form of intrusive government regulation of speech. The jury hung in the first trial of this case, which necessitated a second trial.

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JURIST

AUGUST 2, 2022

As a result of the settlement, SEPTA committed to implementing anti-discrimination and anti-retaliation policies and providing training for its employees in addition to almost $500,000 in compensatory damages to the affected employees. Additionally, SEPTA must also pay the three affected individuals compensatory damages of $496,000.

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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. After a jury trial in the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

She — and the United States government, which filed a brief in support of her and will be presenting argument on Tuesday — contend as follows. Emotional distress damages, Cummings urges, are a traditional form of compensatory damages for breaches of contracts that protect non-pecuniary interests.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 2, 2021

She asked the justices to weigh in “to ensure that people of faith have the freedom to live according to their beliefs about marriage, and to bar governments from mandating which sacred events merit celebration.” She sought compensatory damages for “humiliation, frustration, and emotional distress.” Supreme Court.

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At the Lectern

APRIL 29, 2021

After that opinion issued, the court was criticized for not explaining whether initiatives imposing tax increases are subject to the same two-thirds-vote requirement as are taxes enacted by government bodies. (See for failure to warn of an allegedly dangerous design of public property that is subject to Government Code section 830.6

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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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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 1, 2021

solicitor general on cases the federal government isn’t involved in, the government not infrequently delivers its invited amicus briefs just in time for the court’s last scheduled conference. So it is no surprise to see that three of the new relists involve invited government briefs on a range of subjects. Cummings v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The State seeks compensatory damages, penalties for violation of the Consumer Fraud Act, attorneys’ fees, punitive damages, and costs of suit. case challenging agreements linking California’s greenhouse gas emissions cap-and-trade agreement with the trading program of provincial government of Quebec, Canada.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

involving whether punitive damages that are twice compensatory damages and fall within a state’s statutory punitive damages cap are constitutionally excessive. 1432(a)(3) that governed Abdulla’s case, the custodial parent must naturalize after the parents legally separate. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The court wrote that ultimately it saw “a greater threat to the separation of powers by allowing courts to pick and choose what law governs the executive branch’s ongoing duties.” The complaint asked the court for compensatory damages, equitable relief, attorneys’ fees, punitive damages, disgorgement of profits, and costs of suit.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Circuit held that the federalism canon—requiring that Congress use “exceedingly clear language” to alter the balance of power between the federal government and the states—did not support an interpretation limiting the best system of emission reduction to measures applied at and to the source. Third, the D.C. Army Corps of Engineers , No.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

involving whether punitive damages that are twice compensatory damages, and fall within a state’s statutory punitive damages cap, are constitutionally excessive. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit erred in concluding that the Eighth and Fifth Amendments permit the government to execute the petitioner, Wesley Coonce ?

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