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Blind Justice or Blind Rage: New York’s Legal System Faces Ultimate Test With Obscene Trump Award

JonathanTurley

That is precisely why the New York Court of Appeals should act to redeem the integrity of the legal system by setting aside or drastically reducing this award. For example, in 1996, the justices limited state-awards of punitive damages under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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The Curious Fraud Case Against Trump Just Got ‘Curiouser’

JonathanTurley

Gore , striking down a punitive damage award. The case involved the practice of the company to repair and repaint cars damaged in transit without telling the customers. Even though the Alabama Supreme Court previously reduced the punitive award by half, the U.S. In the Trump case, the banks made money.

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Foreign intelligence surveillance and immigration

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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. 1432(a)(3) that governed Abdulla’s case, the custodial parent must naturalize after the parents legally separate. relisted after the Sept.

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November 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The Ninth Circuit was not persuaded by the plaintiff states’ argument that “precedent requires a broad, fact-intensive inquiry into whether altering an injunction is equitable, even if the legal duty underlying the injunction has disappeared.” Oceana, Inc. Ross , No. 1:12-cv-00041 (D.D.C. County of Maui v. Sunoco LP , No.