ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 16, 2024

a tort claim), the maximum amount of damages recoverable as compensatory damages is per person and not per occurrence. Damages “per person” means that compensation is awarded based on the number of individuals who suffer harm. States have proposed funds as well for fees levied.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. compensatory damages and $300,000.00 punitive damages. Congress recognized the threat that tort-based lawsuits pose to freedom of speech in the new and burgeoning Internet medium.

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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 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

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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