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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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November 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

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

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

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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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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Could Gov. Cuomo Face Criminal Charges in Sex Harassment Scandal?

The Crime Report

In both cases where the testimony according to James is damning, the incidents fall within the two-year statute of limitations that applies to misdemeanors in New York State. . “It Now, many say the report’s conclusion can pave the way for a criminal investigation into the accusations, leading to possible criminal charges. .

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

SCOTUSBlog

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. 21, 2020, and June 24, 2021 conferences; rehearing petition relisted after the Sept.

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Supreme Court takes three cases and depublishes three opinions; dissenting votes in four review denials

At the Lectern

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.

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