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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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Man shot by Kyle Rittenhouse files suit alleging law enforcement conspired with shooter

JURIST

A man shot by Kyle Rittenhouse filed a lawsuit Thursday in federal court, claiming that local law enforcement officials conspired with white nationalist militias during protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake last year in Wisconsin. He is seeking compensatory and punitive damages.

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Update: HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention Repository

Conflict of Laws

Ratification of the 2019 Hague Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters”, Wisconsin International Law Review 38 (2021), pp. Codifying Comity: The Case for U.S. Meier, Niklaus. Notification as a Ground for Refusal”, Netherlands International Law Review (NILR) 67 (2020), pp 81-95.

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December 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

The plaintiffs asserted a violation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and requested that the court award them compensatory and punitive damages. The complaint alleged that Pope Francis specifically identified climate change as a grave threat to humanity. Adorers of the Blood of Christ v. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co. ,

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Update: HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention Repository

Conflict of Laws

Ratification of the 2019 Hague Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters”, Wisconsin International Law Review 38 (2021), pp. Codifying Comity: The Case for U.S. Meier, Niklaus. Notification as a Ground for Refusal”, Netherlands International Law Review (NILR) 67 (2020), pp 81-95.

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Update: HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention Repository

Conflict of Laws

Ratification of the 2019 Hague Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters”, Wisconsin International Law Review 38 (2021), pp. Codifying Comity: The Case for U.S. Meier, Niklaus. Notification as a Ground for Refusal”, Netherlands International Law Review (NILR) 67 (2020), pp 81-95.

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Update: HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention Repository

Conflict of Laws

Ratification of the 2019 Hague Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters”, Wisconsin International Law Review 38 (2021), pp. Codifying Comity: The Case for U.S. Meier, Niklaus. Notification as a Ground for Refusal”, Netherlands International Law Review (NILR) 67 (2020), pp 81-95.