JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The standard for defamation for public figures and officials in the United States is the product of a decision decades ago in New York Times v. compensatory damages and $300,000.00 punitive damages. American courts have long recognized that broad defamation rule are inimical to free speech.

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JURIST

JULY 16, 2022

One of the three men convicted in the assassination of Malcolm X is seeking USD 40 million in compensatory damages from the City of New York after he was proven innocent of involvement in the killing last year. The post Man exonerated in assassination of Malcolm X seeks $40M from NYC appeared first on JURIST - News.

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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

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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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. The City sought compensatory damages, treble damages under the Unfair Trade Practices Act, equitable relief, attorneys’ fees, punitive damages, disgorgement of profits, and costs of suit.

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Above The Law

APRIL 10, 2025

President Donald Trump has failed to persuade a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit accusing him of making defamatory statements about five Black and Hispanic men who were wrongly convicted and imprisoned for the 1989 rape of a white jogger in New York’s Central Park. Philadelphia-based U.S.

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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. New York allows the admission of testimonial hearsay to prove an aggravating factor at a capital sentencing hearing. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.

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JURIST

JANUARY 30, 2024

Alina Habba filed the letter after the publication of a New York Post article in which an unnamed source stated that Judge Kaplan had a previous “mentor type” relationship with the plaintiff’s lead counsel, Roberta Kaplan (no relation). .” million in compensatory damages and $65 million in punitive damages.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Below is my column in The Hill on the $355 million verdict against Trump and his corporation in New York. The damages in my view are excessive and absurd after the court acknowledged that no one lost a dime in these exchanges. New York Gov. The impact on New York business is likely to be dire.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The former columnist is seeking compensatory damages from Trump, claiming that the ex-president raped her in the 1990s and has continued to defame her through the present.

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JURIST

APRIL 26, 2024

A New York federal judge rejected former US President Donald Trump’s request for a new trial or judgment in his favor on Thursday in the defamation case won by E. million in compensatory and $65 million in punitive damages—but Judge Lewis Kaplan found his motion “without merit.” Jean Carroll.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The testimony put the controversial demands of New York Attorney General James into sharp relief. Those words from Alice in Wonderland seem the only apt description of the case unfolding in the New York courtroom of Justice Arthur F. That may be a common practice in New York real estate, but it is not a good practice.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Department of Energy (DOE) rule creating new product classes for short cycle washers and dryers (discussed above) and the DOE rule establishing an interim waiver process for test procedures for the energy efficiency program. New York v. 19, 2021); New York v. New York v. 21-1026 (D.C. 21-1035 (D.C.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 4, 2021

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s future remains uncertain following a report by the state attorney general’s office concluding that he sexually harassed nearly a dozen women throughout his recent political career — breaking state and federal laws, NBC News and The City NYC report. . Photo by Welington Abraham Trump via Flickr.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Lacewell , a challenge to a New York regulation that requires employers to fund abortions through their employee health plans. involving whether punitive damages that are twice compensatory damages, and fall within a state’s statutory punitive damages cap, are constitutionally excessive. Epic Systems Corp v.

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