Above The Law

AUGUST 8, 2022

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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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Law 360

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

s Roundup herbicide asked a Delaware Superior Court jury Tuesday for $142 million in punitive damages for the company's purported disregard of the product's toxic risk. Attorneys for the family of a South Carolina man whose cancer death was allegedly linked to long working use of Monsanto Corp.'s

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

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 13, 2023

On 8 and 9 March, a conference will be held at the University of Augsburg, Germany, to discuss the current developments in the award and/or recognition of punitive damages. The conference will feature the following contributions: Who’s Afraid of Punitive Damages? Afraid of What?

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 6, 2024

Due to massive strikes in Germany’s public transport sector, we have made the decision to move the conference on “Who’s Afraid of Punitive Damages?”, to take place in Augsburg on 8/9 March (originally announced here ), to a hybrid format.

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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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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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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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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

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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Dwyer,Williams&Cherkoss

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

What are Punitive Damages in the State of OregonIf you have become injured in an accident, it goes without saying that taking care of your health should be your top priority. However, something you should keep in mind is whether or not you have the right to bring a legal claim against the person or. Read More

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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

MAY 18, 2022

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

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JURIST

AUGUST 11, 2021

After a six-week trial, the jury awarded the Pilliods approximately $56 million in compensatory damages, $2 billion in punitive damages but the Pilliods agreed to a substantially reduced total award of $86 million.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Connecticut Judge Barbara Bellis Thursday ruled that conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay $473 million in punitive damages on top of a nearly $1 billion verdict handed down last month, for his defamatory statements about the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting.

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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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JURIST

MAY 22, 2022

The federal jury awarded Beal compensatory damages to the tune of USD 5 million for hearing loss and tinnitus, and USD 72.5 million in punitive damages. 3M intends to appeal the verdict and damages, as well as those of its nine other unfavorable verdicts that it has not yet appealed.

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LegalReader

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Massachusetts' high court upholds a 2019 jury decision regarding punitive damages.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

” Biden requests a jury trial and seeks both general and punitive damages. .” Finally, Biden’s complaint alleges violations of the California Business & Professionals Code , which prohibits engaging in “unfair competition.” Hunter Biden has been busy in the courts as of late.

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JURIST

MARCH 28, 2022

The complaint demanded an order banning the use of non-lethal weapons on peaceful protesters, as well as compensatory damages and punitive damages. The lawsuit claimed that the Denver police’s excessive force violated the protesters’ First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

.” Fifteen years after the murder of Litvinenko, the ECHR has ordered Russia to pay the ex-KGB officer’s wife, Maria, US $117,304 in damages plus $26,389 in costs. A request for punitive damages was rejected by the Strassbourg court.

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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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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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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

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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JURIST

DECEMBER 17, 2020

In the district court, a jury awarded the plaintiffs more than $60 million, nearly $1,000 to each class member for violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and more than $6,000 each in punitive damages. On appeal, the Ninth Circuit upheld the verdict but reduced the punitive damages to a little less than $4,000 per class member.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 16, 2021

He is seeking compensatory and punitive damages. .” Grosskreutz is claiming that, by acting in concert with militia members and white nationalists, Kenosha law enforcement deprived him of his constitutional rights and led to his injuries.

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JURIST

APRIL 27, 2023

” The lawsuit began when families of victims of the attacks sued the US for damages. 199 million of the damages awarded are for punitive damages against the US. The listed defendants in the case include the US government, former US Presidents Barack Obama and George W.

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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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JURIST

DECEMBER 6, 2021

” Plaintiffs demand a jury trial.

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JURIST

JANUARY 14, 2022

” They are seeking exemplary and punitive damages, along with a cease and desist to prevent PayPal from engaging in similar unlawful business practices. A spokesperson for PayPal has responded to ArsTechnica, stating : ““We will respond to the allegations through the appropriate legal channels in due course.”

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JURIST

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Freeman seek a public retraction of the defendants previous statements along with nominal, compensatory and punitive damages. The complaint further claims that The Gateway Pundit is the top outlet responsible for spreading disinformation, pointing to the fact that the website “ achiev[ed] 7.2 Moss and Ms.

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