Law 360
JULY 27, 2021
A Washington state jury awarded $185 million Tuesday to three teachers who said toxic chemicals produced by Monsanto were left in light fixtures at their school and caused them brain damage, awarding $50 million total compensatory damages and $45 million to each plaintiff in punitive damages.
JURIST
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
Apple’s complaint also cites recent reports from Front Line Defenders (FLD) and the Washington Post , finding that six Palestinian human rights and individuals from over 50 countries have been targeted using Pegasus software. The company also seeks an accounting and deletion of all stolen data, as well punitive and compensatory damages.
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SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 12, 2021
At trial, a jury awarded Epic (as relevant here) $140 million in compensatory damages and $700 million in punitive damages. But relying on a Wisconsin law that limits punitive damages to either $200,000 or twice the compensatory damages award, the trial judge reduced the punitive damages award to $420 million.
SCOTUSBlog
JULY 2, 2021
This time the question comes to the court in the case of Barronelle Stutzman , a Washington florist and devout Christian who believes in the traditional notion of marriage. After the Washington attorney general learned about Stutzman’s refusal, he sued her for violating the state’s antidiscrimination laws, as did Ingersoll and his husband.
JonathanTurley
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
For example, in 1996, the justices limited state-awards of punitive damages under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In that case, BMW was found to have repainted luxury cars damaged in transit without telling buyers. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School.
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 3, 2023
The case involved the practice of the company to repair and repaint cars damaged in transit without telling the customers. Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School.
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 5, 2021
Inslee , a challenge to a Washington state law that shields the personal information of in-home care providers from public disclosure but allows the state to provide that data to the union that represents the providers. Washington. Washington , 19-333. In addition, the court relisted: Boardman v. Epic Systems Corp v.
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