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Judge Doesn’t Let Trump Back Out Of Defamatory Remarks Made About Central Park 5

Above The Law

Trump for compensatory damages, for punitive damages and for costs, in an pic.twitter.com/ENGc05WPZd — Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) October 21, 2024 Pretty cut-and-dried, if you ask me! Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s.

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Blind Justice or Blind Rage: New York’s Legal System Faces Ultimate Test With Obscene Trump Award

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For example, in 1996, the justices limited state-awards of punitive damages under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In that case, BMW was found to have repainted luxury cars damaged in transit without telling buyers. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School.

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The Curious Fraud Case Against Trump Just Got ‘Curiouser’

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The case involved the practice of the company to repair and repaint cars damaged in transit without telling the customers. Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School.