Day on Torts
DECEMBER 5, 2022
The jury found defendant liable for intentional misrepresentation and awarded plaintiff $243,000 in compensatory damages, which was the purchase price of the home, and $250,000 in punitive damages. The jury also awarded plaintiff punitive damages in this case. internal citation omitted). Code Ann. § Code Ann. §
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
DECEMBER 11, 2020
Trade Groups Proceeding with Narrower Challenge to 2016 Refrigerant Management Rule; NRDC and States Challenge 2020 Rescission of Portion of Rule. The court also declined to vacate BLM’s leasing decisions and instead enjoined BLM from issuing drilling permits for the leases while it responds to the court’s decision. WildEarth Guardians v.
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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. §
Conflict of Laws
AUGUST 30, 2023
79-109 (available here ) Amurodov, Jahongir “Some issues of Ratification of the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters (2019) by the Republic of Uzbekistan”, Uzbek Law Review 2020-03, pp. 166-172 (available here ) Brand, Ronald A. 2019-02, pp 1-35 Brand, Ronald A.
SquirePattonBoggs
MAY 14, 2021
Under FACTA, any person who willfully violates this provision is liable for actual damages or statutory damages ranging from $100 to $1000, plus punitive damages and attorney’s fees. 2020) (en banc). On behalf of herself and other similarly situated customers, she brought suit for violation of 15 U.S.C.
SquirePattonBoggs
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
2018), which held that Tennessee’s statutory cap on punitive damages violates the state constitution. Not long after that decision, the Tennessee Supreme Court took the unusual step of calling out Lindenberg as “unpersuasive” even though the statute was not at issue in that case. Jackson Nat’l Life Ins. 3d 348 (6th Cir.
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 6, 2023
There are 33 states with retraction statutes. 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. Other states effectively make such a letter a required step.
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