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Compensatory damages equal to amount plaintiff paid for home affirmed in fraud case.

Day on Torts

Further, where the fraud was related to the purchase of plaintiff’s home, and the jury awarded plaintiff the amount she paid for the home in compensatory damages, that award was affirmed. On appeal, the verdict for compensatory damages was affirmed, but the punitive award was vacated and remanded for further proceedings.

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Judgment for damages void where defendant was not served with amended omplaint.

Day on Torts

Plaintiff’s initial complaint was filed in May 2009 and sought $1 million in compensatory damages and $1 million in punitive damages. Defendant was never served with this amended complaint, but the trial court entered a final judgment awarding plaintiff $3 million in total damages in August 2017. Code Ann. §

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November 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The First Circuit—like the Fourth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits in other climate change cases—concluded that the scope of its appellate review was limited to whether the defendants properly removed the case under the federal-officer removal statute. On October 27, 2020, the D.C. Chernaik v. Brown , No. S066564 (Or. Rhode Island v.

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October 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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After that court vacated the repeal in July 2020, the Wyoming federal court lifted the stay. On October 2, 2020, the U.S. 1442, or the civil-rights removal statute, 28 U.S.C. On September 29, 2020, the D.C. On September 17, 2020, the D.C. Conservation Law Foundation v. Shell Oil Products US , No. 2:16-cv-00285 (D.

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Free exercise, greenhouse-gas regulation, and a slew of other relists from the long conference

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involving whether punitive damages that are twice compensatory damages, and fall within a state’s statutory punitive damages cap, are constitutionally excessive. 10, 2020, Jan. 17, 2020, Jan. 24, 2020, Feb. Epic Systems Corp v. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. Ysleta del Sur Pueblo v.