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.

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JURIST

APRIL 15, 2022

Ruling that Tesla failed to take “all reasonable steps necessary” to prevent such harassment, the jury awarded Diaz $130 million in punitive damages, $4.5 in past compensatory damages and $2.4 million in future compensatory damages. He reduced compensatory damages to $1.5

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Law 360

JANUARY 26, 2024

A Philadelphia jury on Friday hit the makers of weedkiller Roundup with an astronomical $2 billion punitive damages verdict, along with $250 million in compensatory damages, in a case brought by a Pennsylvania man who claimed Monsanto failed to warn users that the product contained carcinogenic chemicals and contributed to his development of cancer. (..)

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JURIST

MARCH 24, 2022

A jury for the US District Court for the Northern District of California awarded Comet Technologies $40 million in damages on Wednesday, finding that a rival company had misappropriated trade secrets on equipment used in the manufacturing of semiconductor chips. Comet had sought compensatory damages of $32.5

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Law 360

JULY 26, 2024

A Missouri jury awarded $95 million in compensatory damages and $400 million in punitive damages Friday over bellwether claims that Abbott Laboratories' baby formula caused a premature baby to suffer a fully disabling condition.

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JURIST

AUGUST 18, 2022

A federal judge Wednesday ordered former Pennsylvania judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan to pay more than $200 million in damages to victims in the 2010 “kids for cash” juvenile detention scandal.

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LegalReader

JUNE 24, 2022

In contrast to compensatory damages, punitive damages are awarded when a defendant commits deliberate, malicious, or fraudulent acts that cause harm to another person.

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JURIST

JUNE 1, 2021

billion in punitive damages, claiming the 11:1 ratio of punitive damages to compensatory damages was excessive. Campbell, which would have imposed a fixed 1:1 ratio of punitive damages to compensatory damages for class action suits.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 3, 2021

Assume that you successfully obtained a favourable judgment from a foreign court that orders the losing party to pay punitive damages in addition to compensatory damages. Could the judgment be enforced in Japan where punitive damages are considered as contrary to public policy?

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JURIST

AUGUST 11, 2021

After a six-week trial, the jury awarded the Pilliods approximately $56 million in compensatory damages, $2 billion in punitive damages but the Pilliods agreed to a substantially reduced total award of $86 million.

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JURIST

MAY 17, 2021

The jury awarded Hardeman $75 million in punitive damages, but the federal judge overseeing the trial reduced the punitive damages to $20 million. The jury also awarded Hardeman $5 million in compensatory damages for past and future pain and suffering.

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Law 360

MAY 3, 2023

million in compensatory damages and $120 million in punitive damages against Farmers Group Inc. for allegedly implementing a discriminatory policy that forced older agents out, arguing that a Farmers Group CEO's email stating its agents were "s**t" shows malice warranting punitives.

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Law 360

JULY 27, 2021

A Washington state jury awarded $185 million Tuesday to three teachers who said toxic chemicals produced by Monsanto were left in light fixtures at their school and caused them brain damage, awarding $50 million total compensatory damages and $45 million to each plaintiff in punitive damages.

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JURIST

MAY 22, 2022

The federal jury awarded Beal compensatory damages to the tune of USD 5 million for hearing loss and tinnitus, and USD 72.5 million in punitive damages. 3M intends to appeal the verdict and damages, as well as those of its nine other unfavorable verdicts that it has not yet appealed.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Notably, the jury awarded punitive damages against the university, a relative rarity for juries but well deserved in this case. There seemed little balance struck in this case and the jury responded by hitting Auburn with punitive damages. It awarded $145,000 in compensatory damages and $500,000 in punitive damages.

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LegalReader

AUGUST 8, 2022

Claims are resolved through the recovery of compensatory damages and punitive damages. .

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JURIST

MARCH 28, 2022

The complaint demanded an order banning the use of non-lethal weapons on peaceful protesters, as well as compensatory damages and punitive damages. The lawsuit claimed that the Denver police’s excessive force violated the protesters’ First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The causes of action in the suit include strict product liability and negligence, and specifically addresses the following questions of law: whether Facebook (i.e. ” Plaintiffs demand a jury trial.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 18, 2022

Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan, two former Pennsylvania judges accused in 2009 of sending hundreds of teenagers to privately run youth detention centers in exchange for millions in kickbacks, and sentenced to decades in prison as a result, have been ordered to pay more than $206 million in damages, reports the Wall Street Journal.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

10 million in compensatory damages and $100 million in punitive damages Wednesday, finding rival Toyo Tire Corp. An Illinois federal jury awarded Atturo Tire Corp. $10 liable for defamation, unfair competition, unjust enrichment, deceptive trade practices and tortious interference with Atturo's contracts.

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JURIST

JUNE 28, 2022

million in compensatory damages and $13.5 million in punitive damages. In April 2021 Judge William Orrick reduced the award to $15 million. Orrick said that the original award was “grossly excessive” and unconstitutional. He revised the award to be $1.5

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Law 360

MAY 10, 2022

An Illinois federal judge on Tuesday cut a jury's award of $100 million in punitive damages to Atturo Tire Corp. in a dispute with rival Toyo Tire to just $100,000, saying the conduct "was not extreme" enough to warrant such a large finding, but kept intact the jury's $10 million compensatory damages award.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 5, 2022

A Texas jury ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay more than $4 million — significantly less than the $150 million being sought — in compensatory damages to the parents of a 6-year-old boy killed in the Sandy Hook massacre, reports the Associated Press. The plaintiffs’ attorney Mark Bankston insisted that the $4.11

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LegalReader

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Massachusetts' high court upholds a 2019 jury decision regarding punitive damages.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 16, 2024

Judge Roberts found that “Young sufficiently proffered evidence of actual malice, express malice, and a level of conduct outrageous enough to open the door for him to seek punitive damages.” CNN lost a critical motion in seeking to bar punitive damages.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

25, 2022), [link] , considered whether a provider’s use of a medical device that is the subject of an FDA safety communication constitutes per se evidence of wanton disregard, which would warrant punitive damages. The Court’s analysis also leaves open the possibility that other FDA communications could result in punitive damages.

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NewmanFerraraLLP

JANUARY 24, 2023

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.)

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Of these, 26 were successful cases where the Chinese courts decided to recognize and enforce foreign judgments while 3 were partially successful cases (the Chinese courts recognized compensatory damages but rejected punitive damages); the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments were rejected in the remaining 34 cases.

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Day on Torts

APRIL 6, 2022

Plaintiff’s initial complaint was filed in May 2009 and sought $1 million in compensatory damages and $1 million in punitive damages. Defendant was never served with this amended complaint, but the trial court entered a final judgment awarding plaintiff $3 million in total damages in August 2017.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 24, 2022

Another interesting example would be a series of cases where a Chinese court in Guangzhou recognized and enforced compensatory damages awarded in three U.S. EB-5 Visa fraud judgments, but rejected the punitive damages awarded therein, echoing the same rule laid down in the 2021 Conference Summary.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Since the Spanish court had ordered the defendants to pay a sum for damages it deemed to be compensatory in nature, in light of Art. 45(2) Brussels I Regulation, the enforcing court could not come to the opposing view that the damages were in fact punitive. Recital 32 of the Rome II Regulation).

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Day on Torts

MAY 24, 2022

Plaintiff’s complaint sought compensatory damages for defamation, false light invasion of privacy, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. It also sought punitive damages, injunctive relief, and a declaratory judgment that defendants had violated certain statutes.

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The Fashion Law

MARCH 2, 2022

Armijo is seeking general and compensatory damages against the defendants “in an amount to be determined at trial in, but in no event less than $6 million,” as well as “exemplary and punitive damages against all the defendants … in an amount to be determined at trial.”.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 23, 2021

They could also seek punitive damages in such a case. Compensatory damages cover both economic and non-economic damages. While rare, New Mexico does not limit punitive damages, which can be sought for torts that are malicious, willful, reckless, wanton, or fraudulent.

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JURIST

APRIL 26, 2024

The Senate’s amendment added that in a civil action based on violating the bill, “[The] plaintiff may recover from the person: (A) Compensatory damages; (B) Punitive damages; and (C) Reasonable attorney’s fees, court costs, and expenses.”

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Law 360

DECEMBER 16, 2021

A California state jury on Thursday awarded a former head of Farmers Insurance's in-house legal services $150 million in punitive damages, in addition to his $5.4 million compensatory damages, after finding that his role as a potential witness in a settled sex bias suit from female Farmers attorneys motivated his firing.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 5, 2021

He is seeking declaratory and injunctive relief; nominal damages; compensatory damages; reinstatement with backpay; punitive damages; and attorney fees, expenses, and costs pursuant to 42 USC § 1988. Beathard brought the lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 alleging First Amendment retaliation/viewpoint discrimination.

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