Compensatory Damages Legal Tort 
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.
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 are starting to directly address gaps and grey areas preemptively.
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Conflict of Laws
MARCH 23, 2024
It evidently has not stopped claimants from seeking enforcement of punitive damage awards in other civil law legal systems. Rademacher then analysed whether punitive elements could be found in German tort law. She pointed out that although parliament abolished punitive damages in certain areas of law (e.g.
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
From a practical perspective, the court’s resolution of Cummings might well affect the availability of emotional distress damages under additional federal anti-discrimination laws — including Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibits sex discrimination in federally funded education programs.
JURIST
DECEMBER 25, 2021
Specifically, the suit claims that Giuliani and Trump’s legal team initiated the lie that election workers illegally instructed observers to leave and counted thousands of fraudulent ballots unobserved, and OAN And Giuliani amplified the lie.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
The Ninth Circuit was not persuaded by the plaintiff states’ argument that “precedent requires a broad, fact-intensive inquiry into whether altering an injunction is equitable, even if the legal duty underlying the injunction has disappeared.” County of Maui v. Sunoco LP , No. 2CCV-20-0000283 (Haw.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
But the Court rejected arguments that the government could be forced to meet more specific renewable energy and energy efficiency targets on the grounds that such sectoral measures cannot be independently directly linked to ecological damage. Notre Affaire à Tous and Others v. ClientEarth v. European Investment Bank (EU General Court).
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