Day on Torts
DECEMBER 5, 2022
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.
Day on Torts
APRIL 6, 2022
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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At the Lectern
APRIL 29, 2021
2020) 50 Cal.App.5th ” The Second District, Division Six, denied habeas relief in an unpublished opinion that expressly disagreed with a 2020 decision by the Second District, Division One ( People v. Offley (2020) 48 Cal.App.5th Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 2018) 25 Cal.App.5th 5th 398 from the Third District and Spikener v.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
OCTOBER 20, 2020
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.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
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.
SCOTUSBlog
JULY 1, 2021
Thus, some of these cases are likely to be the last grants of October Term 2020. 20-219 , asks whether the compensatory damages available under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and the statutes that incorporate its remedies, such as the Rehabilitation Act and the Affordable Care Act , include compensation for emotional distress.
SCOTUSBlog
JULY 2, 2021
The busy order list was in some ways was a microcosm of the 2020-21 term as a whole. She sought compensatory damages for “humiliation, frustration, and emotional distress.” At issue in the case is whether federal disability laws allow Cummings to recover damages for emotional distress.
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