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Punitive damages and rejected pleas

SCOTUSBlog

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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Who’s Afraid of Punitive Damages? – Conference in Augsburg, Germany

Conflict of Laws

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. The conference contained five panels overall, which were split into three blocks.

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Condé Nast Says Models Are “Inhibiting Free Speech” in Vogue Runway Lawsuit

The Fashion Law

On the heels of the high fashion retailer and the magazine publisher pushing back against the models’ claims in respective motions to dismiss, and a New York federal court stripping down the case, Condé Nast is trying to get the rest of the case – including the plaintiffs’ right of publicity and unjust enrichment claims – tossed out. .

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New York Times Loses Effort to Block Kai Spears Defamation Action

JonathanTurley

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.

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Court rules federal immunity law does not shield Turkish bank from U.S. prosecution

SCOTUSBlog

Federal prosecutors in New York indicted the bank in 2019 on charges that it had participated in a multi-year scheme to launder billions of dollars stemming from the sales of Iranian oil and natural gas, in violation of U.S. But the court left the door open for the bank to press a different immunity argument in the lower courts.

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Jake Tapper and CNN Lose Major Motions in Defamation Case by Navy Veteran

JonathanTurley

In a pair of orders, the jury will be allowed to award punitive damages and his experts would be allowed to be heard by the jury on the merits of the case. The punitive damages decision is particularly interesting legally. The court found that CNNs retraction was insufficient to remove punitive damages from the table.

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Deadspin Defamation: Parents of Holden Armenta Move Toward Libel Action Over Blackface Allegation

JonathanTurley

There are 33 states with retraction statutes. 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. In New York Times v. Other states effectively make such a letter a required step.