Government Punitive Damages Statute 
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 20, 2023
The justices rejected the bank’s contention that because the Turkish government owns a majority share of the bank, known as Halkbank, it is immune from prosecution under a federal law that generally prohibits lawsuits against foreign governments in U.S. courts for its role in a conspiracy to evade U.S. sanctions on Iran.
The Crime Report
DECEMBER 16, 2022
Governments pay compensation to victims of crime from taxpayer funds with broad public support. . The maxim “good man, good result” governs the public space. We’ve interposed a layer of government lawyers to assist judges in operating their machines. Why would that be true?
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The Crime Report
AUGUST 5, 2021
The Mexican government has filed a federal complaint in Massachusetts against Interstate Arms Corp. The Mexican government has filed a federal complaint in Massachusetts against Interstate Arms Corp. The government claims that up to 90 percent of all guns recovered at Mexican crime scenes were trafficked from the U.S.,
At the Lectern
DECEMBER 2, 2021
Superior Court , where review was granted in September to decide if Government Code section 818 , which bars punitive damages against government defendants, precludes recovery under Code of Civil Procedure section 340.1 , subdivision (b), which permits an award of up to treble damages after a child is sexually abused as a result of a cover up.
At the Lectern
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
concerning California’s whistleblower statute. Superior Court , where the Second District, Division Three, held in a published opinion that public entities are not subject to treble damages under Code of Civil Procedure section 340.1 (b)(1), The court agreed to hear People ex rel. Garcia-Brower v. Kolla’s Inc.
FDA Law Blog
APRIL 23, 2021
It did that by focusing on the text of the statute. Indeed, the first (and very succinct) point in the Court’s analysis of the statute is that “the language [of §13(b)] refers only to injunctions.” Id. Supreme Court in 1999 that the agency lacked the authority to obtain compensatory relief or punitive damages.
JonathanTurley
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
The statute defines “information content provider” as “any person or entity that is responsible, in whole or in part, for the creation or development of information provided through the Internet or any other interactive computer service.” compensatory damages and $300,000.00 punitive damages. 47 U.S.C. §
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