HowAppealing

JULY 2, 2024

“Charlottesville Rally Leaders Face Higher Damages on Appeal; Lower court cut $24 million award by too much, 4th Cir. ’s $350,000 punitive damages cap to apply per plaintiff”: Mike Vilensky of Bloomberg Law has this report (subscription required for full access) on a ruling that the U.S.

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HowAppealing

APRIL 13, 2021

“Court: Florida prisoner can seek punitive damages.” ” Jim Saunders of The News Service of Florida has this report on an en banc ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued Friday. The en banc majority opinion is notable because it was jointly written by Chief Judge William H.

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HowAppealing

JUNE 4, 2021

“Justices Sticking to Punitive Damage Limits After J&J Case”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law has this report.

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LegalReader

MARCH 30, 2022

According to legal experts, more and more jurisdictions are trying to limit punitive damage awards viewed as over-the-top and as outrageous as the behavior they’re trying to punish.

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Above The Law

AUGUST 10, 2022

The post Punitive Damages Cap In Alex Jones Case Is The Ultimate Jury Nullification appeared first on Above the Law. Alex Jones is not going to be paying anything near what the jury determined.

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Above The Law

AUGUST 8, 2022

The post Everything’s Bigger In Texas Except Punitive Damages — See Also appeared first on Above the Law. Eulogizing The Rule Of Law : Stephen Breyer's new pursuit is waxing philosophic about the decline and fall of the law. Civil Disobedience : A new frontier post- Dobbs.

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ABA Journal

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The former legal chief for Farmers Insurance was awarded $150 million in punitive damages Thursday in a wrongful termination lawsuit claiming that he was wrongly…

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ABA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A Florida judge can seek punitive damages against a lawyer she accused of threatening to release her nude photos unless she acquiesced to his demands…

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 7, 2021

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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Law 360

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

A Florida state judge will allow the wife of a man killed when his Tesla hit a tractor trailer in March 2019 pursue punitive damages against the automotive company, finding that the evidence in the case forms a "reasonable basis" from which a jury could conclude that Tesla Inc. knew its Autopilot feature was defective.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 24, 2022

million in punitive damages for its role manufacturing dry cleaning chemicals that contaminated the city of Modesto's soil and groundwater, according to attorneys for the city. A California jury on Monday found that Dow Chemical owes $56.3

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HowAppealing

MARCH 18, 2021

Neither federal law nor Iowa law required vacating $200,000 punitive damages award simply because the jury awarded zero in compensatory damages: You can access yesterday’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit at this link.

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Conflict of Laws

JULY 10, 2023

The description of the book reads as follows: Thus far, private international law issues relating to punitive damages have mainly been dealt with from the perspective of several European countries. In conclusion, overarching insights from the Hague Conference are formulated.

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ABA Journal

MARCH 3, 2021

Marvel Entertainment CEO Ike Perlmutter is seeking punitive damages against Chubb insurance for allegedly facilitating a DNA theft during a deposition. Perlmutter alleges an in-house…

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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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LegalReader

MAY 18, 2022

Penalties through the civil courts come in the form of punitive damages.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

On Thursday 14 October 2021 an online M-EPLI roundtable will take place on private international law issues relating to the recognition and enforcement of foreign (mostly US) punitive damages judgments in countries outside of Europe.

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LegalReader

JUNE 2, 2022

As a general rule larger amounts of compensation tend to be available to victims who have sustained very serious and life changing injuries. .

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JURIST

JANUARY 1, 2021

The Iowa Supreme Court ruled Thursday that plaintiffs cannot recover punitive damages from the state when a law enforcement officer uses excessive force. Punitive damages are awarded as a way to punish the defendant and to deter that same conduct in the future.

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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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Law 360

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A Texas jury found in favor of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Wednesday in a suit that saw SkyWest Airlines accused of sitting idle while an employee experienced persistent sexual harassment, awarding over $2 million in punitive damages for the workplace misconduct in federal court.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 4, 2024

A federal judge said Friday she will have to decide count by count whether she can allow a Massachusetts couple suing eBay over a harassment campaign against them to seek punitive damages under California law while pursuing compensatory damages for the same claims under the laws of the pair's home state.

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Mondaq

JANUARY 10, 2022

The Florida Supreme Court just changed the litigation landscape regarding punitive damage claims.

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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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Mondaq

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The following case is the first civil IP case in which the SPC ruled to apply punitive damages.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

must face a punitive damages request at an upcoming jury trial over allegations that a defective pickup truck roof caused a husband and wife to suffocate during a rollover crash, a Georgia federal judge held Tuesday. Ford Motor Co.

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Law 360

AUGUST 16, 2024

is asking a Georgia federal court to throw out a bid for punitive damages from the children of a couple who died in a rollover crash, saying punitive damages in a prior $1.7 Ford Motor Co. billion loss in a similar suit bars the claim.

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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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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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Law 360

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A Missouri federal jury on Wednesday issued a nearly $159 million verdict in favor of the family of a man killed on an Amtrak train passing through a Kansas City, Missouri, suburb, an award that includes $150 million in punitive damages against the railroad company.

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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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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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JURIST

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The appellate court affirmed the reasoning but imposed an additional punitive damages of EUR $220. The trial court refused to impose the minimum sentence, believing that it would be disproportionate because of the applicant’s lack of criminal record and lack of attempt to distribute the drugs.

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JURIST

APRIL 15, 2022

Diaz sought damages for solely emotional injury. 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.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Arbitration award against one of the nation’s largest mortgage loan servicers includes compensatory and punitive damages as well as the homeowner’s attorney’s fees.

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Punitive damages are a special kind of compensation. These are damages meant to punish a defendant for some kind of malicious or reckless actions.

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