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Elon Musk and his companies sued for $258B over alleged cryptocurrency pyramid scheme

JURIST

Johnson claimed he purchased Dogecoin in April of 2021 as a result of Musk’s conduct. .” The complaint alleges Musk is responsible in part due to his repeated posting of statements and memes on social media about Dogecoin. According to Johnson, this caused the crypto’s price to fluctuate.

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Who’s Afraid of Punitive Damages? – Conference in Augsburg, Germany

Conflict of Laws

This paradigm shift could also be observed in proposals to focus more on what is necessary to achieve adequate deterrence when deciding on whether and how much to award in cases in which punitive damages are a possibility. French courts, on the other hand, seemed to apply a rather general proportionality test.

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

At the Lectern

22, 2021, No. B294747) 2021 WL 222119), for some reason not linked to on the Court of Appeal’s online docket, the Second District, Division One, affirmed a manslaughter conviction and denied a habeas corpus petition. The appellate court concluded the Rule doesn’t limit attorney fees, disagreeing with Lafferty v.

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Mopping up final business with 14 new relists

SCOTUSBlog

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. CVSG: 5/25/2021. CVSG: 5/25/2021. CVSG: 4/30/2021.

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Justices add one religious-rights case to docket but turn down another

SCOTUSBlog

The court added nine other cases to its docket for the 2021-22 term, on issues ranging from securities litigation to interstate water disputes. She sought compensatory damages for “humiliation, frustration, and emotional distress.” Other grants on Friday’s order list.

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October 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

1442, or the civil-rights removal statute, 28 U.S.C. The district court rejected eight grounds for removal, but the Fourth Circuit concluded its appellate jurisdiction was limited to determining whether the companies properly removed the case under the federal-officer removal statute. The petition must be filed by January 4, 2021.

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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. California v. Wheeler , No. 20-1357 (D.C. County of Maui v. Sunoco LP , No. 2CCV-20-0000283 (Haw.