Court New York Punitive Damages Tort 
Conflict of Laws
MARCH 23, 2024
by Salih Okur (University of Augsburg) On 8 and 9 March, scholars from more than a dozen different jurisdictions followed the invitation of Tobias Lutzi to discuss recent trends in punitive damages at the University of Augsburg, Germany. Rademacher then analysed whether punitive elements could be found in German tort law.
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 7, 2023
The New York Times lost a critical effort to block the defamation lawsuit brought by University of Alabama basketball player Kai Spears. We have previously discussed retraction statutes that can limit damages or actions. ” The New York Times issued a correction, but not a retraction. In New York Times v.
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JonathanTurley
JUNE 2, 2022
The massive verdict in favor of actor Johnny Depp yesterday constitutes a rare victory of a public figure under the difficult New York Times v. Even with the reduction of the $5 million in punitive damages to $350,000 under the statutory state cap for punitive damages, Depp was technically awarded $10,350,000.
JonathanTurley
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
Despite this history, a new decision out of the High Court is still shocking in its implications for further attacks on free speech. The court ruled that newspapers and television stations that post articles on social media sites like Facebook are liable for other third party comments on those posts. punitive damages.
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 6, 2023
If a full and effective retraction is issued (and published as prominently as the offending statement), it can limit damages or bar punitive damages entirely in some states. The use of the headdress could be treated by a court as opinion since many denounce such images as cultural appropriation. In New York Times v.
JonathanTurley
JULY 12, 2023
” She is also seeking punitive damages. Notably, New York magazine did a full report on the controversy in an article in The Cut titled “The Holy War Against One Pro-Abortion-Rights Professor: Tamara Kay has endured a vicious harassment campaign that she says Notre Dame won’t help curb.”
JonathanTurley
JANUARY 4, 2022
We previously discussed an interesting challenge by Prince Andrew to the applicability of the the age-of-consent in New York to the case. However, such settlements often extend beyond the state of execution and this agreement expressly refers to any actions that Guiffre could bring in “state or federal” courts.
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