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CHICKEN!

NewmanFerraraLLP

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 101.) Perdue ~ Complaint Parker v. Perdue ~ Order on Motion to Dismiss

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OpenSea, LooksRare, BAYC Yuga Labs Named in $6 Million Negligence Lawsuit

The Fashion Law

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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Australia High Court Delivers Major Blow to Free Speech In Defamation Ruling

JonathanTurley

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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Punitive damages and rejected pleas

SCOTUSBlog

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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In mostly humdrum order list, court adds no new cases to its docket

SCOTUSBlog

in which Epic has asked the justices to weigh in on whether a state law that places a cap on punitive damages can provide the kind of fair notice that the Supreme Court has said the Constitution’s due process clause requires, so that a punitive damages award that complies with the law passes constitutional muster.

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October 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

The State seeks compensatory damages, penalties for violation of the Consumer Fraud Act, attorneys’ fees, punitive damages, and costs of suit. The State seeks compensatory damages, penalties for violation of the Consumer Fraud Act, attorneys’ fees, punitive damages, and costs of suit.

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Foreign intelligence surveillance and immigration

SCOTUSBlog

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. though his 71 I.Q.