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. Both former judges waived their right to participate at trial.

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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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HowAppealing

JULY 20, 2023

High Court Adopts Per-Defendant Calculation of Punitive-to-Compensatory Damages Ratio”: Aleeza Furman of The Legal Intelligencer has this report on a ruling that the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued yesterday. ’s Constitutional Punitive Damages Caselaw ” and “ More from Pa.

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Mondaq

MAY 18, 2022

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania recently granted review in The Bert Company d/b/a Northwest Insurance Services v. Matthew Turk, et al., 14 WAP 2022,

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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

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

A trio of Blank Rome LLP attorneys have asked a federal judge in Pennsylvania to bifurcate a lawsuit against them from another attorney alleging they facilitated a client's retaliation against her for switching to plaintiffs work, asking the judge to split punitive damages into a separate case.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Religious Order Sought Damages Under Religious Freedom Restoration Act from Pipeline Developer. The plaintiffs asserted a violation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and requested that the court award them compensatory and punitive damages. Adorers of the Blood of Christ v. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co. ,

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