Day on Torts

JUNE 2, 2021

The Court also analyzed defendants’ claim for punitive damages. Bishop’s conversion and trespass to chattels claim could possibly support an award of punitive damages. Mr. Forsythe’s trespass claim, however, “simply [did] not rise to the level of egregious conduct required for a punitive damages award.”.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 2, 2022

Even with the reduction of the $5 million in punitive damages to $350,000 under the statutory state cap for punitive damages, Depp was technically awarded $10,350,000. With the reduction of $2 million to Heard, that still leaves $8,350,000 — more than the $7 million that he gave up in the divorce.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2023

We have previously discussed retraction statutes that can limit damages or actions. Here is Alabama’s Section 6-5- 186 “Prerequisites to recovery of vindictive or punitive damages in action for libel. ” The New York Times issued a correction, but not a retraction.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 8, 2023

The jury in June 2019 awarded the Gibsons $44 million in compensatory and punitive damages. However, Cornell Professor William Jacobson has speculated that the companies will continue to decline on the basis of the college engaging in intentional torts. A judge later reduced the award to $25 million.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 6, 2024

Judge Roberts found that “Young sufficiently proffered evidence of actual malice, express malice, and a level of conduct outrageous enough to open the door for him to seek punitive damages.” The evidence included messages from Marquard that he wanted to “nail this Zachary Young mfucker” and thought the story would be Young’s “funeral.”

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Constitutional Law Reporter

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiffs and awarded each class member statutory damages and punitive damages. According to the majority, only plaintiffs concretely harmed by a defendant’s statutory violation have Article III standing to seek damages against that private defendant in federal court.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. compensatory damages and $300,000.00 punitive damages. Congress recognized the threat that tort-based lawsuits pose to freedom of speech in the new and burgeoning Internet medium.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 7, 2021

million to the family of Sam Graham, including $5 million in punitive damages, in a wrongful-death lawsuit. Prueitt had been sent home by her employer, Southlake-based Senior Living Properties, for showing up intoxicated. The family sued both Prueitt and the company. A jury then awarded $16.7

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 28, 2021

The complaint seeks punitive damages. Moreover, the destruction could be cited as adding to the need for punitive damages to deter future such misconduct. The question is how the alleged attempted cover up would play in such a case.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 6, 2023

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. States differ on the impact of retractions, which must be made within a set period of days or weeks.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 31, 2022

The jury in June 2019 awarded the Gibsons $44 million in compensatory and punitive damages. and added that she was “baffled by their combined audacity and arrogance to assume the position of victim.”?. A judge later reduced the award to $25 million. That was upheld and the appellate court also upheld an award of $6.2

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JURIST

DECEMBER 25, 2021

Altogether, the plaintiffs have charged four claims against the defendants: defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and civil conspiracy and aiding and abetting claims with respect to the said tort claims.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 31, 2023

She then ordered a default and the payment of the plaintiffs’ attorneys fees totaling tens of thousands of dollars as well as punitive damages. The court ordered trial proceedings solely on the amount of damages. That clearly did not convince Judge Howell.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 18, 2023

.” Notably, the damages are largely compensatory rather than punitive, meaning that he has suffered millions in losses despite his anonymous status. ” While the Schlapps are named, Doe insists that his identity should be protected under Virginia law.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 15, 2023

A US federal jury Friday ordered former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani to pay $148M in damages to Ruby Freeman and Wandrea Mossin after accusing the two women of tampering with Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results. The former New York City mayor’s current net worth and assets are reportedly no more than $50M.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 4, 2022

Look again at the language (emphasis added): HEREBY remise, release, acquit, satisfy, and forever discharge the said Second Parties and any other person or entity who could have been included as a potential defendant (“Other Potential Defendants”) from all, and all manner of, action and actions of Virginia Roberts, including State or Federal , cause (..)

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The complaint asked the court for compensatory damages, equitable relief, attorneys’ fees, punitive damages, disgorgement of profits, and costs of suit. Maui asserted causes of action for public nuisance, private nuisance, strict liability failure to warn, negligent failure to warn, and trespass. County of Maui v.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 12, 2023

” She is also seeking punitive damages. It seems rather thin soup to sustain a defamation lawsuit against students or to support the claim that they are liable for her alleged “suffer[ing] mentally and emotionally and experienced and continues to experience mental anguish and fear for her safety.”

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It also seeks nominal, compensatory, consequential, and punitive damages; and attorneys’ fees and costs. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. That was the concern that led the Supreme Court to curtail defamation actions.

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JURIST

APRIL 2, 2021

The complaint states that Trump, for his alleged involvement in inciting the attack, committed the following torts: directing assault and battery, aiding and abetting assault and battery, directing intentional infliction of emotional distress, incitement to riot, and disorderly conduct.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The court also dismissed defamation and related state tort claims. Jacobson demanded damages from Clack and NAS “to be determined at trial believed to be in excess of Ten Million Dollars,” plus punitive damages and attorney fees. Jacobson v. National Academy of Sciences , No. 2017 CA 006685 B (D.C.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2021

The officers seek $75,000 in damages in their complaint but also ask for unspecified punitive damages. The second “Count Five” is actually just a demand for punitive damages, rather than an actual separate tort. The complaint presents five counts.

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